Package for Nguyen! Vietnamese wait. Will Sparta release Heča now?
The winter transfer of Filip Nguyen to the Vietnamese team FC Cong An Ha Noi is close. It is expected that Slovácko will release its goalkeeper, because it will make a very decent profit. According to information from isport.cz, the Asian club offers a severance payment of 800,000 dollars! (approx. 17.6 million crowns) “I can’t comment exactly, but it corresponds to the offer of a mid-sized Bundesliga club,” said the player’s representative, Pavel Zíka.
In Slovakia, Filip Nguyen has a contract until December 2024. However, it is almost certain that he will not keep it. He got a lucrative lasso from Vietnam, where his father is from. And the whole thing is in a hurry, the transfer deadline in the local league ends at the end of January. “Filip is very interested in it,” confirmed Pavel Zíka from the Global Sports agency. Therefore, on Tuesday, he and his colleagues will go to Uherské Hradiště, where the whole business should be fine-tuned.
The agreement is very likely, as the conditions for the players and for the Moravian club are excellent. He would hardly be able to shell out more money for the 30-year-old goalkeeper in the future. “We have had above-standard relations with Slovácko’s management for a long time,” Zíka believed in the successful conclusion of the transaction.
Basically, there is only one unknown left in it. And that’s a replacement for the number one goalkeeper. According to Sport’s sources, the effort is to bring Milan Heča from Sparta as soon as possible, who, according to the original agreement, was supposed to return “home” only in the summer. Nguyen’s departure could speed up the matter by a few months. Sparta has no problem with releasing a substitute whose contract ends.
Vietnam’s V.League 1 is played in a spring-autumn system (the second half will start in March) and the police unit from the metropolis of Hanoi wants to have Nguyen available for the rest of the year to attack the title. A member of the broader Czech national team is a big name for the competition. “We have to explore new markets and value every offer when the club wants to pay for a transfer,” Zíka told isport. “Today, it is difficult to sell players from the Czech league to the Premier League or the Bundesliga,” he added, adding that more domestic footballers may soon head to Asia.
There is money in Vietnam, just like in Indonesia, where two representatives recently left, defender Ondřej Kúdela and forward Michael Krmenčík.
The native of Banská Bystrica had been planning to leave for a distant country, where he has roots, for a long time. Last year, his transfer to the best club Binh Dinh fell through. “The club has announced that they cannot complete the paperwork for Filip to become a domestic player,” his dad Nguyen Minh told VnExpress.
Now Nguyen has the path to an exotic engagement open. Before the end of the year, he resolved the future during a vacation directly in Asia. “For my son’s career it is of course good to be in Europe. But he wants to return to Vietnam and play in his father’s homeland,” confirmed Nguyen Minh, whose descendant can still wear the jersey of the national team. Although he was called to the meeting of the Czech national team, he did not play even once in an official match.
In Slovácko, where he transferred from Liberec for five million crowns last year after a loan, he held the position of first goalkeeper. It was expected that I would last him even in the spring. After all, at the training camp in Croatia, he caught a general game with the Slovenian Brave (2:1). It is still possible that he will start on Saturday in the first round against České Budějovice and only then will he become a player for the Vietnamese team.
If Heč’s arrival is not quickly adjusted, Tomáš Fryšták and Jiří Borek will compete for a place in goal. Or will coach Martin Svědík get another reinforcement?