Black clouds over the Vistula Kraków. The great return of Jerzy Brzêczek?

When Wisła Kraków hired a coach in June 2021, it seemed that she had drawn the coach from a different football world. Not long before that, Gula was praised for the spectacular performance of Victoria Pilzno, and the club was a sensation in the first season of the Slovak coach’s work. Then it got worse, and at the beginning of May 2021 the trainer was dismissed. an average of two points per game and it seemed that it was an unattainable goal for the struggling Wisła. Earlier, he rejected the offer of Jagiellonia Białystok. Legia Warszawa was also interested in him … But nothing could be more wrong.

A mistake that couldn’t have happened.

she announced the arrival of Gula, and now it seemed as if everything would start off the hoof. There was a new and extremely competent sports director – a longtime scout for Arsenal. He was an extremely experienced and proven coach, there were players recommended by him. And … everyone got it wrong again.

Adrian Gula could not influence the game of Wisła Kraków. Although the beginning of the season was still quite good, because Gula wanted to play very aggressively and at risk, so after 0: 5 with Lech Poznań everything went wrong. You get the impression that the club played worse and worse with each game. He devoted less attention to offensive and defensive … The team was also losing offensive skills, because in autumn the team’s best scorer was Yaw Yeboah with five goals, but the second place was taken by the center-back Michal Frydrych, who himself scored Wisła a few points. It was in vain to find any of the attackers among the shooters. Although the Vistula was supposed to “envy half a league”. But they could not do much either, because the Vistula did not create many situations.

The main objection to Gula was that, regardless of the form, Michal Skvarka was usually unproductive in position “10”. It is true that he has four assists this season, but two of them in the first match against Górnik Łęczna. Most of the time, however, he was irritating. And he received the vote of no confidence on Saturday, when he was leaving the field. Then, he was said goodbye by terrifying whistles, which were a clear signal not only for the footballer, but also for the coach. And it is worth emphasizing that Krakow fans have got used to supporting their players even in difficult moments. The defeat with Stal Mielec was a cup of bitterness. Especially that, as the EkstraStats.pl portal calculated, it was the first time that the host did not have a shot on target this season.

Gula was reconciled with defeat?

From Krakow, you can hear that Adrian Gula after Saturday’s match was already reconciled with the fact that he would not lead the team out of the crisis. Although it is rather difficult to talk about a crisis in a situation where there was no bull market. From the very beginning, Adrian Guli’s Wisła was terribly weak, and when she won matches in autumn, it was only against teams that were even weaker at the moment.

If there had not been such a good and experienced trainer in the position of a coach, he would have been said goodbye in Krakow much faster. But they all believed in “Gul’s project” and wanted to give him plenty of time. But after two spring defeats in Wisła’s disastrous style, the specter of a decline saw the eye. At the moment, the White Star is by far the worst performing team in the league and is topping the table. And the captain has no idea how to take a different course.

In Internet polls created in the community of fans on Twitter, the majority were in favor of changing the coach, although it was emphasized that they believed in him to the end. They believed it because it was hard to believe that this project would not work out. He would have everything to succeed. The trainer was carefully scouted and selected from a group of other candidates. He also took a few players that he wanted and liked to work with, including the aforementioned Skvarka. – Adrian Gula is a great man and specialist, whom we would like to thank for the work he has done. Sometimes it happens in life that certain configurations do not function optimally for no apparent reason. Time for a new chapter – wrote Jarosław Królewski, co-owner of the club on Twitter, and it’s hard to disagree with him.

Vistula over the precipice. Jerzy Brzęczek to the rescue?

A fierce fight to stay in the Ekstraklasa ahead of the Vistula River. At this point, there is probably no room for experiments with foreign trainers. You probably have to bet on a man who knows Polish football very well, and who has recently also followed Wisła Kraków matches. There are three such candidates: Radosław Sobolewski, the legend of Wisła Kraków, Kazimierz Moskal (former Wisła coach several times) and Jerzy Brzęczek. Brzęczek, against which a year ago Wisła fans defended themselves with their hands and feet, and now many of them look for help in him. It seems that the situation is also ripe for this.

In real terms, it seems to be the best option for Wisła Kraków at the moment. It’s hard not to get the impression that both pages are written to each other. Although there is no secret that Brzęczek could look towards the Vistula only for family reasons. Because their position in the table and finances would not be decisive here. After all, recently Brzęczek actually negotiated with the authorities of the Kosovo federation and took (or even continues to participate) in the fight for the team’s coach.

However, the co-owner of Wisła Kraków is Jakub Błaszczykowski, the president is Dawid Błaszczykowski, and Jerzy Brzęczek is their uncle, in his youth he often replaced their father. Now he could help save Wisła from a decline, and he could exert adequate pressure on the actions of the management board. It is worth remembering that there is still a transfer window in Poland, and the Vistula weakened significantly in winter. Many millions of zlotys have fallen into the club’s coffers, but it will be difficult to replace the quality of Yaw Yeboah and Aschraf el Mahidoi. So Brzęczek could have much more persuasion power than any other coach.