Vukoviæ demands reinforcements and points to specificities. Three transfers

two weeks ago, he announced that he would appear on Twitter to talk to fans. Right after Dariusz Mioduski did it -. “Only with me will it be until the resistance, that is probably until dawn” – he was to declare. There was no such long conversation, but on Monday evening the Serb appeared in the #LegiaTalk room. With a delay, some people started to joke that Dariusz Mioduski had changed the coach’s password to Twitter at the last minute. “We have so many coaches on contracts that one of them could speak while waiting for Vukovic,” Internet users said.

When two weeks ago the president and owner of Legia answered questions from journalists and fans on Twitter, he was still the coach of the Polish champions. Nobody thought then that in a moment at Łazienkowska Street, not even the coach would be changed, but that Vuković would become the old-new coach again. “I was also surprised by it,” admitted the Serb at the Monday meeting with the fans.

Vuković took over the broken but also beaten team. Several hours after the defeat with Wis Pock (0: 1), when to the Legia coach. – I certainly didn’t have much time to think. Everything happened very quickly. Until recently, I was watching Legia from the side, and suddenly I found myself in the middle. And you had to react right away – now, don’t think too far ahead. I’m alone in, because everyone has gone home. I’m sitting with you and only now will I have time to think about what to do next with this team to make it function better. Because I certainly cannot imagine that it would continue to function as it does now, said Vuković.

At the outset, he declared that in winter he does not even count on supplementing the line-up, but on real reinforcements. – Right wing, midfield and goalkeeper. These are the positions for which we need reinforcements – pointed out Vuković. He did not talk about specific names on Monday, but did not hide that he would prefer more Poles in the team. – This is an issue that is sometimes impossible to control and plan, but I would like to get more players from Poland to balance this team – added Vuković and assured that he would definitely want to participate in the transfer process in winter.

Legia is still in the relegation zone

13 defeats in 18 games and the penultimate 17th place in the table. This is the legacy of Legia this season, which ended the year with a Sunday defeat with Radomiak (0: 3). Vuković’s team will spend the winter in the relegation zone. – This team has to be rebuilt. This can’t be done with a snap of your fingers. But it can be done through hard work and that’s what we’re going to do in the training camp in Dubai. It will not be any vacation – assured Vuković.

And he added: – I am a realist, but also an optimist. And he builds his optimism on the fact that this is not a new thing for me. I was already getting Legia out of difficult situations. Maybe not as tragic as it is now in terms of place in the table, but the assumptions are very similar. Now we also need to raise this team. And I know he can play better. And I believe that along with all the team I’m going to work with here, we’re going to do just that. We will build a real team that will go to fire behind it.

Legia will return to training in early January. Two days after the end of the holidays, Vuković will take the team to Dubai, where the Polish champion was also preparing for the spring round in the middle of last season. Legia’s winter preparations plan looks like this:

• January 5 – start of preparations
• January 5-6 – motor tests
• January 6 – departure to Dubai *
• January 15 – sparring with Botev Plovdiv
• 19 January – Sparring with FK Krasnodar
• January 22 – return to Poland
• January 29 – sparring with Radomiak Radom

* Legia in Dubai is to play three friendly matches, but it is not known yet who will be their third rival.