Stal Mielec has had a poor start to the season. In the first four games, the team from Mielec has only scored one point. Everything indicates that they will have to fight to stay in the top league for another season.
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In such a situation, Mielec could definitely use Mateusz Kochalski. This player won the title of the best goalkeeper of the previous season. The goalkeeper kept nine clean sheets and saved Stal from defeats many times. Now the Mielec club will have to cope without him. They have just officially announced that Kochalski has left for Qarabag FK.
“Mateusz Kochalski is leaving FKS Stal Mielec on a permanent transfer and is joining Qarabag FK. Mateusz, thank you for representing our club's colours in a fantastic way,” Stal Mielec wrote on Twitter.
“Currently, this is the second highest transfer fee in the history of our club,” the club added on its website. The most expensive player in Stal's history is Said Hamulić. The striker left for around 2.5 million euros. In the case of Kochalski, we are talking about a sum of around one million euros.
Qarabag is a team well-known to Polish fans. Mainly because they regularly eliminate our teams in the qualifications for European cups. Only Raków Częstochowa managed to beat the players from Azerbaijan when the two clubs met in the second qualifying round of the Champions League last season.
The Azeris are currently one step away from advancing to the most important European cup competition. In the third qualifying round of the Champions League, they won the two-legged match with the Bulgarian Ludogorets 8:4. Now the Azerbaijani club awaits matches with Dinamo Zagreb, which will decide who advances to the league phase. Mateusz Kochalski therefore has a huge chance to soon have the opportunity to play with the best footballers in the world.