Pospisil a free agent in the summer !

A blatant piece of “one plus one equals 2” journalism appeared a couple of days ago, when it was revealed that ex-Hearts striker Michal Pospisil is out of contract in the summer, having gone on loan from Belgian club Sint-Truiden to one of his former Czech clubs Viktoria Zizkov.

It seems that Zizkov are in a relegation battle, and see Pospisil as the man to get a few goals to help keep them in the Czech top league. However the newspaper article quotes Pospisil as saying that he’d love to return to Scotland, viewing his current spell in the Czech Republic as a temporary one !!

The striker is quoted as saying –

‘I hoped I could move back to Scotland in January but for now I am back in the Czech Republic. This is good news for me just now because I played with Zizkov before. It’s familiar to me and it’s a family club with good players and a good coach. My family are back home so they are a little bit more settled too.

‘Everything depends on how I play over the next few months. I must focus on my football just now. I will be a free player in the summer so, if everything is going well, I would like to look abroad again. Scotland would be one of the best possibilities for me. I heard about some interest in the last transfer window but I did not speak to anyone personally. There was nothing serious.’

He jokes about the possibility of a Hearts return. ‘I heard they need a striker. They should have called me in January.’ I cannot imagine it because when I finished at Hearts they were quite happy to sell me. In football you never know. There is a new manager now, I don’t know who has the power to pick the team there but I would not say no. I really liked the supporters in Edinburgh.

In England, the Championship is a great competition and I would also like to play there. Primarily, I like British football and in Scotland we found all the people to be very friendly. I know the football there and I have a lot of friends there. It would be fantastic to go back. We love it there and it would be no problem moving again.

I have told my agent to speak with Scottish clubs but there are only 12 teams in the SPL. England has much more clubs so maybe there will be more options there during the summer.’

He left for Sint-Truiden after falling drastically out of favour, which the striker blames on Angel Chervenkov’s refusal to play him regularly. He encountered the same frustration this season after Sint-Truiden suffered relegation to Belgium’s second division and replaced head coach Dennis van Wijck, the man who brought him to the Limburg club.

‘Last season I played all the games after I arrived and I was happy. Then in the summer they sacked the coach and the team was relegated. Under the new coach I did not get enough opportunities to play so I wasn’t happy. We had to find another solution. They were very open for me to move, they wanted to do it as much as me. It was quite simple in that way because we both had a desire to do this and that’s why I came back to Zizkov.’

So, I invite your views on whether you`d like to see Michal Pospisil back at Tynecastle, where at long last it seems we have a proper football manager in charge. Of course, our owner might not entertain such an idea, given that Pospisil was one of George Burley`s signings. While I never raved about him in his 3 years at Hearts, his “goals-to-minutes played” ratio was actually quite good – and MUCH better than anyone in the current squad.