{"id":562611,"date":"2020-08-19T12:43:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=562611"},"modified":"2020-08-19T12:43:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:43:57","slug":"wolfsburg-sign-polish-striker-bartosz-bialek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/08\/19\/wolfsburg-sign-polish-striker-bartosz-bialek\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfsburg Sign Polish Striker Bartosz Bialek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfsburg have made a <a href=\"http:\/\/vfl-wolfsburg.de\/en\/news-detail\/news-detail\/detail\/news\/vfl-complete-bialek-signing\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing<\/a> for their future with the acquisition of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/763b8b37\/Bartosz-Bialek\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bartosz Bialek<\/a> from Zag\u0142\u0119bie Lubin.\u00a0The 18-year-old Polish striker has joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/bundesliga\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bundesliga<\/a> club on a four-year deal.<\/p>\n<h2>Wolfsburg Sign Bartosz Bialek<\/h2>\n<h3>A Top Talent<\/h3>\n<p>It only took one season in the Ekstraklasa for Bialek to make an impact. He scored nine goals and registered four assists in 19 appearances in Poland&#8217;s top flight. A very impressive season for a player that is only 18.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, Bialek has represented Poland&#8217;s U-19 team on numerous occasions. He has scored three goals in seven appearances for the youth team.<\/p>\n<p>By signing Bialek, Wolfsburg have secured a player that has the potential to develop into a top striker in the seasons to come. Having only spent one season in a top division, he certainly will still have room for growth, too, as he looks to make his mark in Germany.<\/p>\n<h3>Looking Ahead<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the arrival of the Polish forward, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/c4e87b8b\/Wout-Weghorst\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wout Weghorst<\/a> will remain Wolfsburg&#8217;s main option at striker entering the upcoming season. The Dutch forward was one of the most effective strikers in the Bundesliga during the 2019\/20 season. He scored 16 goals in 32 appearances to lead the way for the Wolfsburg.<\/p>\n<p>Weghorst is under contract at Wolfsburg until the end of the 2022\/23 season. When the time comes for Weghorst to depart the club, Bialek could be the player waiting to take over the role of the main striker.<\/p>\n<p>With Weghorst leading the way, there shouldn&#8217;t be too much pressure for Bialek to produce for the club immediately. This is a signing for the future and not one they will look to for an immediate impact.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"h1UZxAH1T1xYbqwhVyvQBg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1219974168\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'h1UZxAH1T1xYbqwhVyvQBg',sig:'gnpqU-xWDPHvn1i5omR3T9lvUHWeUreCsOq-04zfcmk=',w:'594px',h:'357px',items:'1219974168',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfsburg have made a signing for their future with the acquisition of Bartosz Bialek from Zag\u0142\u0119bie Lubin.\u00a0The 18-year-old Polish striker has joined the Bundesliga club on a four-year deal. Wolfsburg Sign Bartosz Bialek A Top Talent It only took one season in the Ekstraklasa for Bialek to make an impact. He scored nine goals and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":343,"featured_media":562619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[4950,6425,1169,345,136,3122],"class_list":["post-562611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bundesliga","category-transfers","tag-2019-20-bundesliga","tag-bartosz-bialek","tag-poland","tag-wolfsburg","tag-world-football","tag-wout-weghorst"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}