Pekhart: I will not continue in Legia 99%. Where could he go?

Tomas Pekhart is finishing his engagement with Legia Warsaw, which he says will end soon. He had a great time in the Polish team last year, but this year he has also had some bad times. Where could his next steps lead?

He has travelled quite a lot. Germany, Greece, Israel, Spain, Poland. And now he may be on the cusp of another adventure. Pekhart may have been the top scorer in the Polish Ekstraklasa last season and helped Legia to promotion, but he won’t get a new contract, which expires after this season.

“I can say that ninety-nine percent of the time I will not continue with Legia,” Pekhart told Sport.

“The only conversation I had with the club’s management about the contract extension was on August 2nd. With the sport director Kucharski, who no longer works at Legia. On the day of the match against Dinamo Zagreb, which was a Champions League qualifier, he told me that when he returned to Warsaw we would discuss a new contract.

Or the option of leaving, because I had a lot of good offers. When we came back from Croatia, there was no conversation with the sports manager. Nor with anyone else from the club,” adds the lanky striker.

Legia had a tragic autumn. Firstly, it was promoted to the Europa League through Slavia, but it did not do well at all in the league and even fell to the bottom of the table. The club is not used to this at all, as Legia fights for the title every year.

However, it is already picking up under the new coach, helped by Pekhart, who scored his seventh goal of the season at the weekend.

Where did Pekhart actually enter adult football? He moved from the youth of Slavia to Tottenham, where he didn’t make a name for himself, even on loan at Southampton. So he returned to Slavia in the 2008/09 season and helped them to the title.

But then he went to Jablonec, from where he went on loan to Sparta after the autumn of 2010/11, when he scored 11 goals. There he scored 7 goals in the spring, so he didn’t even stay at Letná and went to Nuremberg in the Bundesliga. After that he went through Ingolstadt, AEK from Greece, Beer Sheva from Israel and Las Palmas from Spain.

But what is his future? And is a return to the Czech league possible? Sparta could be interested, which could use a skilled and experienced striker. The 32-year-old striker does not fit into the concept and style of play of Slavia, so the latter will probably not be interested.

However, Pekhart will certainly have plenty of offers, especially as a free agent. Earlier there was talk of interest from MLS, Pekhart himself previously admitted that he had lifetime offers in the summer, which Legia rejected.

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