Not long after Hajduk dismissed Lukša Jakobuši, and he briefly thanked his colleagues and told them “don’t hold anything against me”, the sports director Mindaugas Nikoličius he published on his profile “mrfootball” a photo with Jakobusi and a heart emoticon. However, from a good part of the fans, the Lithuanian got everything but their hearts.
“They sent the guilty one”, “Your reinforcements led to this” and similar messages were sent to him by disgruntled people, who believe that Hajduk should have dismissed him. Nikoličius retired on Thursday.
In the 24-hour poll, more fans blamed Karoglan, Livaja and Jakobuši for Hajduk’s crisis than Nikoličius, and in the question of who else, apart from the president, should leave the club, out of more than 10,000 votes, Nikoličius received about 15 percent, and the largest part believes that the association Naš Hajduk should be removed! While 15 percent of readers think they should all leave.
– Hajduk is like a ship that hit the shore. The president of the supervisory board says that there is no management crisis, Jakobušić is responsible for decisions, but NO approved such a budget. Nikoličius stays? Yes, maybe in Jugoplastica, in basketball, but he will certainly not stay in Hajduk. Well, he is the only responsible person who created and led the sports policy, along with the coach. And if someone made the decision for him, he knew that he was sitting there and had no responsibility, so he has to leave again – the former goalkeeper of the “Whites” told RTL two days ago. Vladimir Balić (53).
Nikoličius is Jacobusć retired from Gorica in December 2020. And he is the sports director in whose tenure Hajduk brought never more loud cheers, real stars and national team players! Marko Livaja, Ivan Perišić, Josip Brekalo, Filip Krovinović, Nikola Kalinić, Dario Melnjak, but also Filip Uremović, Laszlo Kleinheisler, Lovre Kalinić, Zvonimir Šarlija, Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe, Leon Dajaku, Mihael Ž aper, Jan Mlakar, Gergo Lovrencsics, Josip Elez… He brought players from the biggest leagues (Tottenham, Sunderland, Aston Villa, Fiorentina, Hertha, St. Pauli, Ajaccio, Benfica, Boavista, Glasgow Rangers… ), but they also blame him for spending a lot of money on (numerous) failures like Nayir, Kačaniklić, Fossati, Atanasov, Diamantakos, Ferro, Grgića, Anello, Awaziem, Benrahou, Kalik, Diallo, Moufi…
Although he spent only four million euros on compensation for all those games in those seven transfer periods. In the same period, Dinamo paid almost 20 million euros in compensation for reinforcements. However, the Hajdu regiment resents him for having large salaries. And now, when the result was missing, he is told stories like the one that he didn’t want Marc Pašali, who was offered to Hajduk this summer before he signed for Rijeka.
Nikoličius was supposed to remain in his position until the arrival of the new president, the top of the club announced on Monday. But “mrfootball” got ahead of them.