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. If Kakaris arrives, Spanish center-forward Miguel De Toro will probably leave the club. Marseille is, reportedly, in negotiations with De Toro, but a few other clubs are also interested in signing the Spaniard. A piece of information surfaced that Dimitrios 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 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 a lot of information 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, which will not prolong the contract with Australian leftie Luke Pavillard, a future member of the Croatian national team. In addition to Zalanki, Croatia’s captain and goalkeeper, Marko Bijac (Jadran Split), will likely return to Recco, the club he played for between 2018 and 2021.
The center-forwards of the Olympic champion Serbia will change their clubs. Nemanja Ubovic, who has played for Vouliagmeni since 2023 is on the way to Primorac. He will replace his namesake and teammate at the Olympic team, Nemanja Vico, who will leave the Kotor-based team after the end of the season. Vico is set to move to the currently best Georgian club, A-Sport Polo Management, which attracted attention several months ago by signing Denes Varga.
It’s under question if 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 have been transfers between the best Serbian clubs, with Nikola Lukic returning to Radnicki from Novi Beograd.
The Brazilian goalkeeper Joao Pedro Coimbra probably won’t renew the contract with Vasas. The former goalkeeper of Barceloneta, Novi Beograd, Partizan, and OSC is a potential reinforcement to Jadran Herceg Novi.
There will be many transfers of center-forwards this summer, and two former center-forwards, Olympic champions, and today’s coaches have been mentioned in transfer market rumors.
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.
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