Slovan Bratislava coach Vladimír Weiss senior. talked about the changes in the team after the end of the autumn part.
news-item-description">The footballers of Slovan Bratislava won Sunday’s match of the 18th round of the Nike League over DAC Dunajská Streda 2:1. The reigning champions thus ended the autumn part with a triumph and spend the winter at the top of the table with a seven-point lead over MŠK Žilina.
“We have to sensibly add to the squad. So that we are ready for summer. Not to chase players in the summer. Three, four, five players will definitely leave the team,” the experienced helmsman said and specified: “The loan ends for Abubakari (as of December 31). The amount for a permanent transfer is high, we will say goodbye to him.
“Agbo will probably quit. Križan has a torn cruciate ligament, he will be out of the roster for six months and his contract expires in the summer. Lovat has an offer, his contract also expires in the summer. We have different ideas about the terms of the contract, we have to decide whether he will stay. The hosting is also ending for Sharani, we’ll see what happens next with him. And the question is Čavrič, that’s the first item on the agenda.”
Čavrič is the central figure of Slovan’s offensive. He has a promise from management that he can leave in the winter if a meaningful offer is made for all parties involved. At the same time, however, it offered him a new, improved contract for two and a half years.
“We want him to stay. He has a contract ready, he should sign it maybe today. But he also has offers, which is normal,” explained coach Weiss about the current situation.
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news-item-description">Slovan Bratislava is experiencing a successful period. However, an inevitable change awaits him.
Malik Abubakari has been visiting Slovan from Malmö, Sweden, since February. In the fall, he scored four goals in 25 competitive matches, three in the Slovak Cup against Sväté Jura and Seredi. He has been waiting for a goal since August 5. In recent months, he started sporadically.
“He helped us in the beginning, but he was out of form at the moment. He fought, he toiled, he struggled, but the last two months he didn’t have the quality we wanted,” explained Weiss.
Sharani Zuberu flashed two goals in the Champions League tie against Mostar, but then he dropped out of the squad and in recent months he too has rarely started. His loan will also expire on December 31.
Uche Agbo played in only four league matches, he did not get a place in European cups. Richard Križan has only two more starts, he is the fourth hitter in the team hierarchy.
In addition to departures, coach Weiss also mentioned the name of a potential old-new reinforcement: “We are interested in Chakvetadze’s return, we are working on it.”
Čakvetadze is on loan from Gent in the English second division Watford. He made 16 starts this season, but played more than 35 minutes only twice. He did not score a goal, he recorded only one assist.
news-item-description">Georgian playmaker Giorgi Čakvetadze will definitely not help Slovan Bratislava in the next season.
The Georgian playmaker spent last season in Slovan. He won the favor of fans with his unconventional solutions. They wanted him to stay on Brickfield. “Ivan, pay Čakve!” they chanted in the last matches of the season towards the general director Ivan Kmotrík Jr. The club tried to keep Chakvetadze, but was unable to meet Gent’s financial demands. The Belgian club asked for 4 million euros for the transfer.
There is unprecedented silence about further arrivals. It can be expected that Slovan will at least investigate the possibilities of the arrival of Róbert Polievka from Banská Bystrica, in whom he was eminently interested in the summer. In the Conference League, he can add only three new players to the roster before the spring season.
news-item-description">In Saturday’s match of the final 18th round of the autumn part of the highest Slovak competition 2023/2024 against MŠK Žilina, the striker of the Slovak national football team Róbert Polievka scored his jubilee tenth league strike this season, helping the MFK Dukla Banská Bystrica team to a 3:1 triumph.
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