FORMER Rangers striker Antonio Colak has caused quite a stir.
That’s after he made a rather dramatic transfer U-turn before joining his prospective new club’s league RIVALS instead.
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Colak, 31, was a £1.8million signing for Rangers from Greek club PAOK in 2022.
A year previously, he’d starred for Malmo AGAINST the Gers and scored as the Swedes dispatched the Light Blues from Champions League qualifying.
The Croatian striker hit the ground running at Ibrox, finding a prolific streak early in the season.
He also netted the crucial goal against PSV Eindhoven that punched the Gers’ ticket to the Champions League group stage for the first time in over a decade.
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Injury disrupted the second half of Colak’s debut campaign in Glasgow, although he’d finish the season with 18 goals in 39 games in all competitions.
Despite that return, he was deemed surplus to requirements by Michael Beale in the summer in 2023 and was sold to Parma.
After just one year there, he moved on to another Italian club in the form of Spezia.
But the frontman’s time there has also lasted just the one season.
He’s sealed an exit from Spezia – and one that’s proved rather dramatic and rather controversial.
Colak has completed a transfer to Poland but NOT the one he seemed likely to be making.
He looked all set to join Gornik Zabrze and it was very close indeed.
Reports in Poland say Colak had agreed terms on a contract and that a ‘gentleman’s agreement had been concluded.’
The striker’s medical was even underway and ongoing.
Then, drama struck.
Colak never completed his medical.
Instead, he left Zabrze and headed for the Polish capital Warsaw.
Instead of joining Gornik, Colak has signed on the dotted line and completed a switch to Legia Warsaw.
Legia, who dumped Hibs out of the Conference League last week, confirmed Colak’s arrival earlier this afternoon on a two-year deal.
Legia acted fast to snatch Colak from Gornik’s grasp after their striker Jean-Pierre Nsame suffered an injury.
After completing Colak’s signing, Legia shared an image of him wearing the club’s kit to X.
It was captioned: “You dig for us.”
Gornik fired back in the replies with a post that showed just how close Colak was to joining them.
They shared a short clip of the former Rangers man WEARING their kit – a clip that would have apparently been used as part of his signing announcement had that deal gone through.
They captioned it: “Nothing forced.”
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Colak had a brief spell in Poland earlier in his career, spending the 2014/15 campaign on loan at Lechia Gdansk.
He scored 10 goals in 30 games during that campaign.
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