Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v Rangers - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - December 30, 2023 Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers and Maik Nawrocki celebrate after the match Action Images via Reuters/Craig Brough
Talks are underway for Maik Nawrocki to return to Poland.
The defender joined Celtic in the summer of 2023 with the intention of replacing Carl Starfelt but his career in Scotland has barely got off the ground.
Nawrocki has been involved in just 13 SPFL Premiership matches over the course of two seasons and hasn’t played a minute of Champions League football.
Like all of the signings made in the summer of 2023 it is hard to see the Polish defender having any future at Celtic.
This morning Polish site Kanal Sport reports:
Nawrocki came to Scotland from Legia Warsaw for 5 million euros. There were high hopes for him, but the Pole did not live up to them. In the previous season of the Scottish Premier League, he played only three matches, although he was praised for them.
It seems that his adventure in the West will not last long. He may move to Szczecin. Information about the talks was confirmed by the club’s director Tan Kesler. It is not clear what kind of transfer the Porters will decide on, but the most likely option is a loan.
Nawrocki joined Legia in June 2021, when he was loaned from Werder Bremen reserves. The capital club then decided to buy him and signed a contract with him until the end of the 2024/25 season. In July 2023, he was sold to Celtic.
With his lucrative five year Celtic contract not yet at the halfway stage it is unlikely that Pogon Szczecin will be able to match those terms meaning that a loan move is probable.
Gus Lagerbielke was signed during the same transfer window as Nawrocki with Celtic spending £6m last summer on Auston Trusty.
Nawrocki appears to have been fit throughout last season but with three SPFL Premiership starts and a late appearance against Falkirk in the League Cup.
Rodgers wasted this guy.
He kicks with the wrong foot apparently according to Rodgers. Have you ever heard such nonsense from a Celtic manager?
Editor: He is bang average which is why only the fourth best team in Poland are showing interest.
Other commenters seem to disagree with that assessment
You’re on yer own wi’ that comment Editor…
Editor: Seen it many times, plays three matches out of 60, folk are sick of Scales and Trusty so BINGO Nawrocki is a superstar………………… we’ll see if he gets a better offer than the fourth best team in Poland.
You can only play 3 matches out of 60 if the manager insists on playing his favourite who he paid 6 million for ahead of you. By the way, he did once get a better offer than the 4th best in Poland – a wee team in the east end of Glasgow signed him so they must have saw something in him.
Editor: I wouldn’t place much faith in a Mark Lawwell signing- he brought us Holm, Tilio, Palma, Yang, Lagerbielke, Kwon, Oh, Kobayashi, Haksabanovic, Bernabei… there is a pattern there, sadly most sitting on five year contracts.
A good player is a good player….Stats don’t count here….How you arrive at your opinion is your right to do so…But with respect…I utterly disagree with it.
He’s Just Another Dud,
Under Rodger’s list.
He’s not strong enough. Without any great pace . Never seen him bully anyone.. very average in the Air.
Most importantly no great statue..
5 million euros.. laughable.
Rodgers bought none of these players!! They were ange signings ear marked from previous season you clown shoe! But you knew that eh just want to have a go a Brendan the best Celtic manger since big Jock he the man that created this winning machine ! Brendan Rodgers normalised Trebles and here you are talking utter nonsense!
Editor: The disastrous intake of 2023 were nothing to do with Ange, that was a nice deflection from Pete’s puppies. Once Ange saw the quality of recruitment from Lawwell Mini he decided it was time to move on, strangely he took Nick Montgomery to Spurs but not Marky Bhoy.
Stefano, I didn’t say Rodgers signed him, I said the club signed him. Learn to read the comments before ranting at others, you cretinous dunce.
Hell mend him for scoring that great header at a corner. Celtic don’t do corners.
Looking forward to BR signing players to fit his system rather than finding players that enable that system to be flexible.
The twelfth of never !
I can’t see how Trusty gets a start ahead of this guy.
Nawrocki is a better defender than scales or trusty,it’s shocking the way Rodgers has treated him.
Sevco to sign a player for free from Peterborough with a host of clubs in England and Europe looking to sign the player.
Birmingham have offered to pay £30,000 a week to the player but he has knocked that back and choosen sevco.
Aye they will be matching that £30,000 wage weekly,not!
Big mistake letting this guy go. Far, far better than Scales or Trusty. Perfect cover for CCTV.
This not a good move.
Couldn’t agree more. Looked decent when he played, despite coming in from cold storage and lacking match fitness (through no fault of his own). Makes no sense to move him on at a loss and probably have to subsidise his wages to boot. There’s a player there and he’s decent cover at the very least. I thought BR’s big thing was supposed to be developing players and bringing them on? Clearly not. He might not have wanted the likes of Rocky, Holm, Lagerbielke and Tilio and they may not ever have made the grade, but you’re never going to know that if they never get a chance and it’s not like we got them for nothing either.
I am only going to say this once as I got short shrift on another forum for critiquing BR.’s tactics.
I want a clearout of management and coaches and wage stealers like MacGregor, Hatate and Engels for starters.
A whole new dynamic setup and tactics aimed at Europe.
Even Messi would struggle here as he wouldn’t get the service.
Rogers will be off next season so we have another season of endless passing to look forward to no matter who they buy.
There I have said and await the brickbats.
Editor: Will Nicholson and Lawwell bring in a trendy hipster to work on their antiquated set up, without a Sporting Director or give it to someone in the showers that knows the city?
Good point. I should have started with the board but that ain’t happening!