The striker of the Slovak national team Róbert Boženík (22) could kick himself in the Czech league after suffering in Feyenoord and unsuccessful guest appearances in Düsseldorf.
Attacker number one for Slavia?
“He should go to Slavia Prague for hosting with an option. It is not 100% yet, but confirmation of the entire deal is very close, “says Czech iSport, referring to a” well-informed foreign source “.
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The portal states that “Slavia has shown considerable interest and ideally wants to attract the number one player”. “I do not hide the fact that we need someone like that. However, with the ambitions we have, it is not easy to bring an attacker into the starting lineup to meet our requirements. In order for the player to be ready and for us to convince him, let him come to play in the Czech league, “the source quotes the coach of the Czech vice-champion Jindřich Trpišovský.
They considered him a huge talent
“The native from Terchová was considered a huge talent of Slovak football,” says iSport. In a year and a half, he scored 16 league goals in the Žilina A-team. In January 2020, he moved to Feyenoord for 5 million euros with the ambition to develop under the watchful eye of experienced manager Dick Advocaat and striker coach Robin van Persie.
However, health problems initially slowed the hopeful spread. Boženík played 21 league duels in Rotterdam in a year and a half, scoring three goals. He mostly started for the final minutes.
He did not catch last season in the German second league Düsseldorf, he collected only 464 league minutes. Since mid-February, he has played the same number of minutes in the club as in the national team (45). Paradoxically, for Slovakia he scored more goals in 2019 than in clubs in the other two seasons.
Boženík has a two-year contract with Feyenoord, but he clearly does not figure in the plans of the European Conference League finalist. According to iSport, Slavia also follows the Slovak striker of Ostrava, Ladislav Almási.
He is slowed down in development, he should have listened to Antošík
In a September interview for ŠPORT.sk expert Boženík was analyzed by expert Ladislav Borbély: “He should have listened more to the owner of Žilina, Jozef Antošík, and went to a perhaps less famous club, where he would play and develop. He left for Feyenoord unprepared and ended up. He is undefeated and developmentally slowed down.
I trust him to take over and complete his player development. He has the attacker’s instincts. However, he needs to radically increase his match practice, he has not yet become a good football player on the bench. ”