Tamás Hajnal arrived at the M4 Sport studio minutes after we signed Frederiksen, where he told us a lot of interesting things about the transfers.
Our sports director said that they had to work faster because of the Europa League participation, as the entry list, which can be changed in three places, must be submitted by tomorrow evening. As he said, they prepared for this with the arrival of Abena, Owusu and Frederiksen. According to Bolival, they didn’t pay much after that, they tried to sell him, several clubs would have confirmed him, but Franck said no to these inquiries. Ryan Mmaee can even leave in the summer if there is a suitable offer, and in the spring they are negotiating the extension of the players with expiring contracts, which will also affect our summer plans.
Laidouni was planned to be replaced with Esiti and Gojak, but the Bosnian was injured in Spain during the training camp. In addition, Fradi negotiated with many candidates in the box-to-box position in January.We currently do not have this post filled, but our framework is suitable for that post as well“, “we will be able to react there in the summer“.
Union Berlin approached Fradit Aissa in Spain, as we tried to get a defender from them last year, so Tamás already knew the club’s sports director. This defender, after a little research, was clearly the now 24-year-old Rick van Drongelen, who transferred from the Berlin team to Mechelen in January last year, and to the second division Hansa Rostock in the summer, in both cases on loan. Tamás Hajnal also told us that Aissa signed for us in the summer of 2020 only after very serious persuasion, because after her transfer to Swansea (she had already undergone a medical examination there) failed not long ago, she was waiting for further offers.
The fact that the Hungarian league is not attractive to everyone despite Fradi’s success is a problem to this day, for example we wanted to bring a player to replace Laidouni, but after there was also an offer from LaLigás, we couldn’t do anything anymore. The sports director did not say who this player was, but it should be noted that Selim Amallah, whom we have been watching, transferred to Real Valladolid for one million euros just yesterday.
We already watched Abena before signing for Slovan, and we watched Owusu in the qualifying match. Acquiring Abena already in the winter was much easier to solve than the same in the case of Kwabena. We would like to further narrow the frame, but it is possible that we may even confirm by the 14th, if a suitable opportunity arises.
Tamás Hajnal also said that we approached both Hungarian national team players (Németh and Kleinheisler) who changed clubs in the winter, but none of them wanted to return home. The price of players playing at home is highly valued by the other Hungarian teams, the multiplier is several times higher in the case of Fradi. We had a lot of such attempts, they didn’t work out. Last year, we almost came to an agreement with one of the players of one of our Hungarian competitors of that time his club did not participate in the change.
Mudrik, who recently moved to Chelsea from Donetsk, was also mentioned. We watched him a few years ago while playing in Mariupol, but getting him wasn’t realistic even then.