After a disappointing start to the season at Club Brugge, Michal Skoras has received strong criticism from many quarters and questions have been asked about his added value and high salary of six million euros.
Although Skoras had some positive moments, such as the two assists against Besiktas, he seems to have fallen back into the background after a brief recovery. His recent limited playing time and selection failures raise questions about his future role at Club Brugge.
Michal Skoras: wrong as Noa Lang’s successor
At the end of April, Michal Skoras was presented as Club Brugge’s first signing, before the start of the summer transfer window. The Polish pocket winger signed a four-year contract at the Jan Breydel Stadium, where he would become the ideal heir to Noa Lang.
The Polish Ekstraklasa had long been too small for Skoras and Lech Poznan hit the jackpot with 6 million euros, the third most expensive sale in the club’s history. Despite these high expectations, John van den Brom, Skoras’ former coach at Poznan, did not consider him a direct replacement for Lang.
“For me he and Lang are completely different players. Completely different,” said Van den Brom The newspaper. At Club Brugge, impulse and venom were expected from the flanks, but during the preparation it quickly became clear that he was having difficulty making his mark and had been left behind from day one.
It became clear that Skoras still had to work hard, especially physically. From the beginning the summer acquisition proved insufficient, and second The latest newsAccording to well-informed sources, Skoras would be a full-back rather than a winger.
Skoras is more bad than mediocre at Club Brugge
Michal Skoras played moderately as a substitute at the start of the season and got his first starting place against Aarhus, but was then left in the dressing room at half-time. “More bad than mediocre,” was the opinion The standard. “Nusa was better in office than a completely invisible Skoras. The Polish takeover still has a lot of work to do.”
In the next match against Akureyri, Skoras scored with a nice volley, but was not at the rendezvous. “But you shouldn’t conclude from this that the Pole is a top player. The wing was quite invisible,” he wrote The newspaper.
Against Bodo/Glimt, Skoras was given a chance again in Ronny Deila’s starting team, but once again put in a disappointing performance. What stands out about him is his lack of clarity in the penalty area and his slowness of action.
Skoras has clearly had a lot of difficulty adapting to the Belgian competition, which is of a much higher level in terms of intensity and quality than the Ekstraklasa.
Six million for Skoras: we can ask ourselves questions about this
The standard noticed that during the match in Norway against Bodo/Glimt, no one from Club Brugge stood out, except Michal Skoras. “It’s time for Skoras to show why the Club paid a few million for him,” the paper wrote.
“After all, Skoras has disappointed once again. The Pole fights with the ball. He wants to work, but you can expect more from an acquisition worth around six million euros. He’s not good enough (yet),” she wrote The newspaper on his turn.
Franky Van der Elst has joined the criticism and criticized Club Brugge’s disappointing summer transfer. “Club Brugge bought Skoras, a former winger, but they paid him six million, I think. Amoura took four. You can ask questions about it,” he said The newspaper.
It is clear that Skoras did not reach the desired level at Club Brugge and almost every action he took seemed to lead to nothing. It is therefore no coincidence that he has not even been selected several times this season.
Although some see him as a victim of Blauw-Zwart’s luxury, in the end it seems that Skoras does not meet the club’s standards in terms of quality.
Skoras on the right track, Deila brings him back to square one
Michal Skoras, like Roman Yaremchuk, risked becoming another costly setback in Club Brugge’s signing policy, and part of the blame was placed on sporting director Vincent Mannaert.
“Skoras did not compensate the six million that the Club paid for the young Pole,” he wrote West Flanders Newspaper.
However, coach Ronny Deila continued to involve the Polish striker in first-team affairs, and at the end of November Skoras finally proved that he could reach the level of Club Brugge.
Performed positively against Bodo/Glimt by providing an assist The newspaper described Skoras as a change in the future. During the match against Besiktas, Skoras proved to be of great value for the first time, with two assists during his 45-minute appearance as a substitute.
Deila said the Pole needed to get used to the pace and intensity of his new club, and said Skoras actually deserved a starting place given his strong performances in training. “His performance doesn’t surprise me.”
The Pole also left a satisfactory impression in the cup match against Zulte Waregem. Strangely, after these positive developments, Skoras is back to square one.
After his excellent performance against Besiktas, he largely disappeared from action again, with only 76 minutes in two substitute appearances and even two non-picks (out of six matches) during the month of December.
These choices of Deila were not received with much understanding, especially by Vital Borkelmans. “They paid six million for that Pole (Skoras, ed.). Six! At least give him a chance instead of Zinckernagel,” he said The newspaper.
Even Marc Degryse did not understand Deila’s selection choice. “Why not put Skoras, who did well against Waregem?” the analyst asked himself after the Pole’s failure to win against KV Mechelen.
2024-01-03 16:50:00
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