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Singh, Bindon and maybe Just if those Motherwell rumours are true. AWs reunitiong with former managers very in vogue.

It was under the interim guidance of Des Buckingham that Sarpreet Singh made his professional debut for the Wellington Phoenix back in February 2017, two days before his 18th birthday. But it was during the ill-fated Kalezić season that followed when Singh got his first start and promptly became a regular. Granted, that first start came in game 20 of the 23 that Kalezić managed before getting sacked. Singh scored within three minutes of that game and remained a key player from then until his move to Bayern Munich.

It was quite a talking point at the time about how Kalezić wasn’t playing Singh more often. In fairness, DK’s hardly the only football manager in history who was reluctant to play a skinny teenaged local from the academy. Not rating him and not thinking he was ready are two different things. Singh’s performances immediately made that holdout look silly but it’s not like it was impossible to understand. Anyway, he’s got a chance to make amends seven years later after succeeding where Des Buckingham once failed. Might be time for a reappraisal.

In all seriousness, that Phoenix season a very messy one for Kalezić in which he proved to be a poor cultural fit within the A-League... yet that’s a relatively rare blip in the Dutch/Bosnian gaffer’s overall career. He’s been successful enough to earn several good jobs along the way, especially in the Netherlands, the most recent being a two-year stint with ADO Den Haag. Now he’s moved to Serbia and one of the very first things he’s done is to reunite with old mate Sarpreet.

This also solves the question of whether UD Leiria would pick up Singh’s contract option for two more years in the Portuguese second tier. Obviously they didn’t, since there’s been no hint of any transfer fee. Singh had an odd season with UDL. Four goals and three assists in 1055 minutes is pretty great but for whatever reason he never started more than four games in a row, finding himself in and out of the eleven (despite his only proper injury being a broken hand that cost him the last four games of the campaign). Moving to the SuperLiga means he’ll be playing top flight football for the first time since his two appearances for Bayern Munich back in the 2019-20 campaign. This is a hugely exciting move, arguably one he hasn’t entirely earned based on the cursed luck he’s had in club footy since leaving Bayern. But that’s what friends are for. Big churs to Darije Kalezić.

Niche Cache.  

It was under the interim guidance of Des Buckingham that Sarpreet Singh made his professional debut for the Wellington Phoenix back in February 2017, two days before his 18th birthday. But it was during the ill-fated Kalezić season that followed when Singh got his first start and promptly became a regular. Granted, that first start came in game 20 of the 23 that Kalezić managed before getting sacked. Singh scored within three minutes of that game and remained a key player from then until his move to Bayern Munich.

It was quite a talking point at the time about how Kalezić wasn’t playing Singh more often. In fairness, DK’s hardly the only football manager in history who was reluctant to play a skinny teenaged local from the academy. Not rating him and not thinking he was ready are two different things. Singh’s performances immediately made that holdout look silly but it’s not like it was impossible to understand. Anyway, he’s got a chance to make amends seven years later after succeeding where Des Buckingham once failed. Might be time for a reappraisal.

In all seriousness, that Phoenix season a very messy one for Kalezić in which he proved to be a poor cultural fit within the A-League... yet that’s a relatively rare blip in the Dutch/Bosnian gaffer’s overall career. He’s been successful enough to earn several good jobs along the way, especially in the Netherlands, the most recent being a two-year stint with ADO Den Haag. Now he’s moved to Serbia and one of the very first things he’s done is to reunite with old mate Sarpreet.

This also solves the question of whether UD Leiria would pick up Singh’s contract option for two more years in the Portuguese second tier. Obviously they didn’t, since there’s been no hint of any transfer fee. Singh had an odd season with UDL. Four goals and three assists in 1055 minutes is pretty great but for whatever reason he never started more than four games in a row, finding himself in and out of the eleven (despite his only proper injury being a broken hand that cost him the last four games of the campaign). Moving to the SuperLiga means he’ll be playing top flight football for the first time since his two appearances for Bayern Munich back in the 2019-20 campaign. This is a hugely exciting move, arguably one he hasn’t entirely earned based on the cursed luck he’s had in club footy since leaving Bayern. But that’s what friends are for. Big churs to Darije Kalezić.