The reasons that led Karol Svinderski to the decision to leave PAOK

When PAOK entered the market to find a replacement for Aleksandar Prijovic in January 2019, few expected the choice would fall on the then young Karol Svinderski.

The Pole joined Toumba two days before he turned 22 after scoring 25 goals in the Jagiellonian shirt. Bologna was also interested in Swinderski at the time.

The player chose Greece and PAOK to make the move abroad. He came to Thessaloniki with his partner and showed from the first moment that he is a man of deep tones. His inability to even speak English wasn’t the reason Swinderski seemed shy off the pitch. His character is so…

And crying in the dressing room on Wednesday night as he said goodbye to his team-mates shows he was attached to the team and Thessaloniki.

Three years later, having already become a father, Carol Swinderski leaves PAOK for America and MLS to play soccer in Charlotte. However, MLS, which has recently become a target for many of his compatriots, is likely to come as a surprise for a footballer who is only 25 and is an active member of the Polish national team.

The truth is that Dikefalos wanted to offer him many suggestions during his stay in Thessaloniki. From Dynamo Moscow, Bologna, which never removed him from its lists, from the Berlin Union and even from China, as revealed by his representative. None of them accepted it. The player side had never pushed for a transfer.

Because he wants to leave PAOK

What has changed; His national team is the main reason why Swinderski decided to accept the offer made to him by the Americans and leave PAOK a few months after his last contract extension until summer 2024.

The coach who opened the door for Ethniki, Paulo Souza, left the bench and Svinderski is obviously worried about his position. With PAOK not considered a fundamental and irreplaceable forward for another season, he wanted to find a team that would give him that opportunity.

PAOK gives him his limit on the football exchange

On the other hand, PAOK estimated that now and after the performances he wore with the crest jersey, their footballer had reached the limit of his value on the football exchange and decided to take advantage of Charlotte’s 5 million offer to grant him.

Finally, after Zolak’s return, but also after Oliveira entered the latter part of his recovery, he forced him to rate the forwards he has in his squad and Svinderski was the one with the highest purchase value (worth almost 6 million). .

In fact, the Pole increased his value by around 2.5 times on the football stock market when PAOK acquired him from Jagiellonia, 2 who spent 10m from Prijovic’s transfer and are now giving him 5m.

Its numbers show the truth, entering about 50% of the games available

It’s too much to say that PAOK will receive €5m for the second striker in their hierarchy, but this statement is not far from reality.

The truth is that in the three years he spent at Toumba, Swinderski never felt like PAOK’s No. 1 forward. After all, his numbers say it all. In 82 regular-season games for the league available to his occasional coaches, he started at 43, came on as a 33 and remained on the bench with 6.

In the cup, his quotas were more or less the same: 19 games in the tournament, he got a basic jersey in 10, a change came in 6 and he was in action in 3 of them.

In Europe; In the 22 games his team gave for the European competitions, as long as he wears the PAOK jersey, he only started in 5 of them in the XI and went as a change in the 16, staying on the bench once.

His goal tally may have been remarkable (6 goals in the second half of doubles season, 14 goals in 2019-20, 11 last year and 4 this year, but he always had competition and there was always another opportunity to share Whether it was Akpom, Zolak or Krmencik, Svinderski failed to be an important and irreplaceable player at PAOK.

The Pole leaves the company after winning a championship and two cups with PAOK. He leaves the team after scoring 35 goals and handing out 14 assists to his teammates in 134 games. He scored his first goal on January 30, 2019 and it was the victory for PAOK in the 87th game against PAS Giannina. What he managed in the game against OFI last Saturday was probably the last one with the Dikefalos shirt.