Legia Warsaw was active in the winter transfer window. However, she made more movements from the club than to him. In winter, they left for loans, among others Acquired in the summer: Migouel Alfarela and Jean-Pierre Nsame. Jordan Majchrzak will also spend the next months in Arka Gdynia.
Personal decisions have meant that Goncalo Feio currently has only two attackers at his disposal. The first is the uneven Marc Gual, and the second, with the best years behind him, Tomas Pekhart. No wonder the Warsaw residents were looking for reinforcements of the attack.
In recent weeks in the context of Legia, at least a few names have passed. However, all of Ilja Szkurin will most likely reconcile. On Monday, the Portal Matczyki.pl announced that the 25-year-old Belarusian is one step away from Legia and it will cost EUR 1.5 million.
Legia wanted this attacker
However, it was not Szkurin that was number one on Legia's wish list. He informed portal wszlo.comThis was Ola Brynhildsen, a four -time representative of Norway, a former FC Midtjylland player. According to Szymon Janczyk, the transfer spilled on the last straight.
Brynhildsen did not go to Legia, because at the last moment before his nose he was cleaned with her Toronto FC. “The club from Warsaw was almost in the game of this player. The talks were so advanced that the interested person himself met the ideas of Goncalo Feio, and Legia convinced his family to move, who liked the possibility of living in Warsaw” – we read on the portal.
And further: “However, there was a return of the action – Toronto FC joined the game, also desperate in the fight for the striker after the failure of talks with Eldor Szomorudov. The Canadians had a pay budget of EUR 1.6 million for the season I – according to MLS Insider information – They entered the purchase contract for over 3 million euros.
Brynhildsen is a pupil of the Norwegian Stabaul, where he also started his professional career. In May 2020, the attacker went to Molde FK, from where FC Midtjylland bought him three years later. However, the adventure in Denmark was not successful for Brynhildsen.
In 38 matches Norwegian scored eight goals, and spent the previous season on loan at Molde. In 18 meetings on loan, Brynhildsen scored 12 goals. The next one will win no longer in the Premier League, and in MLS.