There is a month and a half remaining until the start of the transfer window, but many transfers have already been agreed upon or are close to being finalized. According to rumors and semi-confirmed reports, center-forwards will be the focus this summer.
Luka Loncar will leave Mladost to join Olympiacos. That means that at least one of the Greek center-forwards, Konstantinos Kakaris and Dimitrios Nikolaidis, will not renew their contracts with the Piraeus-based club.
Several sources confirmed that Kakaris would continue his career at Ferencvaros. The only signing is missing. A report surfaced that Nikolaidis could be moving to Panathinaikos.
Besides Loncar, two Croatian players are likely to join Olympiacos. Loren Fatovic, who plays for Jadran, has been linked to the top Greek club since last summer, when his father, Elvis, was appointed head coach. It appears that the time has finally come for Loren to join his father at the club. Additionally, left-handed goal scorer Konstantin Kharkov, a Russian with a Croatian passport from Mladost, is also close to finalizing a contract with Olympiacos.
As things currently stand, there will be many news regarding both arrivals and departures from Olympiacos this year. Kharkov is expected to be a replacement for Gergo Zalanki. It has been rumored that Zalanki will return to Pro Recco. In addition to Zalanki, Croatia’s captain and goalkeeper, Marko Bijac (Jadran Split), could return to Recco, the club he played for between 2018 and 2021.
The center-forwards of the Olympic champion, Serbia, will also change their clubs. Nemanja Vico will leave Primorac after the end of the season. He is set to move to the currently best Georgian club, A-Sport Polo Management, which attracted attention several months ago by signing Denes Varga. Vico will likely be replaced by his namesake and teammate at the Serbian Olympic team, Nemanja Ubovic, who has played for Vouliagmeni since 2023, after leaving Ferencvaros.
Ubovic won’t be the only player who will come to Primorac from the Greek League. Sources indicate that Montenegrin Dusan Banicevic will be moving from Panathinaikos to Primorac.
It’s questionable whether talented Balsa Vuckovic will remain at Primorac, as a few Serbian clubs are interested in signing the player, who has an increasingly important role both at the club and in the national team.
There will be many transfers of center-forwards this summer, and some former center-forwards and today’s coaches have been mentioned in the rumors about the transfer market.
Trieste is looking for a new head coach, as Maurizio Mirarchi will leave the club this summer after taking over the Italian women’s national team. Reportedly, Igor Hinic, the Croatian Olympic champion in 2012, is a strong candidate to replace Mirarchi. Hinic has been coaching Primorje Rijeka since 2017.
A few sources indicate that Primorac Kotor would like to see Slobodan Nikic, the 2016 Olympic champion with Serbia, on its bench. Nikic coached Vasas between 2021 and the middle of the current season. He remained at the club as the sports director.
There will be a change at the helm of Sabadell, as Quim Collet decided to end his 6-year tenure as the head coach after the end of the season.
Buducnost will have a new head coach too. According to Montenegrin media, Petar Radanovic, a longtime head coach of Jadran who worked at Apollon last season and at Novi Beograd in the first half of the ongoing season, will lead the Podgorica-based club in the future.
Disclaimer : This story is auto aggregated by a computer programme and has not been created or edited by DOWNTHENEWS. Publisher: total-waterpolo.com
