Sporting is interested in Krzysztof Piatek, a Hertha Berlin player, on loan to the Italians from Salernitana. The striker has been on the lions’ agenda for more than a season and is one of the names identified to reinforce the attack in the 2023/2024 season.
to what TSF found, Piatek returns to the targets of the lions after an approach in the window of the summer market of 2022. Salernitana should not proceed to purchase the pass of the athlete who still belongs to Hertha Berlin, after a season in which the performance of the player was disappointing. On the player’s side, the scenario set in August 2022 is repeated: Piatek wants to find a club where he can relaunch his career and improve the numbers and goals scored. Sporting offers the athlete the opportunity to fight for the titles.
Rubén Amorim has already admitted that Sporting is considering reinforcing the attack -Paulinho and Chermiti are the only options- and SAD is assessing possible targets on the market.
Despite Sporting’s rapprochement last summer, Piatek ended up on loan from Hertha Berlin to Salernitana. The forward was looking for the moment of a club in which he could take over as a starter, with the 2022 World Cup on the horizon and the need to add minutes.
But the season in Italy did not go as the player expected. This season, Piatek scored just three goals and hasn’t scored since November 2022. Despite the scarcity of goals, Fernando Santos, Poland’s new national coach, included Piatek in the first call-up for the matches and qualification for the European Football Championship of 2024. Championship, along with names like Lewandowski.
Player looking for a new opportunity
to what TSF found, Salernitana does not want to keep the player beyond this summer and Piatek will return to Hertha Berlin. Paulo Sousa’s club is close to confirming its maintenance in Série A and already has some goals set for the new season.
The player’s salary may be an obstacle to his hiring by Sporting. Piatek earns an amount above the lions’ salary cap.
Hertha Berlin, holder of the pass, intends to carry out a sale operation for the player that will make it possible to offset the investment of 12 million euros that it made in 2021 when it rescued the player from Fiorentina.
Piatek returned to Italy in search of a club where he could take over as a starter. The Polish international shone with Genoa and AC Milan before leaving for Germany.
With Paulo Sousa, Piatek has been a substitute for Boulaye Dia, the striker who denied Napoli the title last Sunday and scored three goals in Wednesday’s game against Fiorentina.
Very different from Paulinho, Piatek as a striker with a new profile for Rúben Amorim
Mamede Ferreira was a scout for Genoa during the period in which Piatek shone at the Genoese club. Mamede explains in TSF that Piatek is a different player from Paulinho, the main option this season for the center of attack.
“Paulinho turns the game on, Piatek is a finisher, a player who attacks deep. They are different players. He is a physically strong player, intense in the game, a quality athlete (…) he already showed it in a competitive championship that he can score goals, in a context like the Italian championship”, points out the former player from Reggina, Genoa or Messina.
For the football commentator of TSF Tomás da Cunha, Piatek’s profile breaks with what Rúben Amorim’s choices for attack have been in recent seasons. “It is difficult to predict what Rúben Amorim expects from the new signing (for attack). Piatek has nothing to do with Paulinho. He is a player from the area, who can respond to crosses, very different from what a player like Paulinho offers.” . .
Rúben Amorim has already admitted that Sporting looks to the market in search of new options for the future. At a press conference on April 15, 2022, the coach referred to Salernitana, the club where Piatek plays, as an example of the quality of the squads in championships such as the Italian one -when Benfica and Sporting were eliminated at the hands of Inter Milan and Juventus in the European tests.
“The English league is very good because it has the best players, the best coaches. The Spanish league fell by not being able to retain the best. The more Portuguese teams we have in the Champions League, the more difficult it is. easier in the Europa League. Come on. To a Salernitana who has high-level players. It is something that takes time. I don’t even want to have that homework. It corresponds to the League, the Federation, the Union”. , explained Rúben Amorim, attentive to the squads and options of clubs outside of Portugal, even if they are in low positions in the table.
Source: TSF
