Another young and talented player leaves Polish league

By: Conrad | February 15th, 2008

Kamil Grosicki has been officially presented as a new player of Swiss FC Sion (6th place in Swiss top division). There are already hot debates going on, whether Legia made a big mistake, letting this talented (according to Polish national team, Leo Beenhakker) player to leave Poland. Moreover, Legia is not going to earn any money on him so far, as it is only a loan with an option of definite transfer at the end of the year.

Young Grosicki has been already scoring goals in Polish U-19 national team and even recently was summoned to the first Polish representation for a friendly match with Finland for which he has been praised by the coach, Leo Beenhakker. His club career is maybe not so luminous so far, as we have seen only one his goal for Legia, but he surely had some glimmers of his talent. But unfortunately for him and the club, Grosicki was causing more problems than contributing to the team.

His gambling problems are well known in Poland. Legia did tremendous job with helping him to get rid of this addicition and it is strange that now, when everything seems to be sorted out, the club’s stewards decided to lend him to the western club. It may seem that Legia is washing its hands off the problem, and okay, they have any right to do this, but still - Grosicki is a very prosperous player and when being kept under ‘club’s care’ he would be a strong trump of the team which is about to fight desperately for a champ title. Hopefully in small Sion (29 000 inhabitants) Grosicki will not have many temptations and opportunities to relieve his fatal partialities.

What is however concerning, that in both options (Grosicki’s return in December or definite transfer to FC Sion) Legia is losing. If Grosicki is fit to new team and score goals, Swiss club will buy him for a riddiculous amount of 750,000 euro, thanks to pre-emption. If he however spends this year on a bench, he will return to Poland, psychically devastated and with wasted talent. He will probably change Swiss bench on Polish one and ultimately end in some weak club. I would really like to be wrong about that.