Polish football player Ariel Borysiuk was on the brink of making a move from Legia Warsaw to Club Brugge yesterday, when he at the last moment decided to pull out of a deal and go to Kaiserslautern instead.
The 20-year-old travelled to Brugge on Tuesday to complete the transfer, but a tour around the stadium and training ground made him get second thoughts. According to his manager the player though the facilities to be disappointing.
No easy boy, Borysiuk, as one day earlier he had failed to show up at a medical at Kaiserslautern and opted to travel to Brugge instead. But apparently Kaiserslautern chose to forgive him as the player signed at the club later on Tuesday anyway.
Brugge’s Jan Breydel Stadion got built in 1974 and counts as one of the larger stadiums in Belgium. The stadium hosted a quarter-final during Euro 2000, however hardly meets the standards of modern time, and in recent years the club has tried to make a move to a new stadium. A project that seems to have gotten stuck in procedural issues.
The stadium can hardly be called ugly though, and Borysiuk must have forgotten quickly about Legia’s old Wojska Polskiego stadium where the club had been playing until it opened the brand-new Pepsi Arena a year ago.