Krzysztof Piatek

Written by Tomasz Wlodarczyk, Radoslaw Przybysz and Maciej Luczak for Meczyki:

Krzysztof Piatek may have earned the nickname "Il Pistolero", but for a while it looked like Piatek would end up being remembered as a one-season wonder. In 2018-19 he scored 30 goals in 42 games for Genoa, who had paid a relatively trivial €4.5m for him. Six months later they sold him to Milan for €35m, but things did not work out for him at San Siro: having scored 13 goals in 19 Serie A games for Genoa he managed the same total in 36 league appearances for the Rossoneri. After a year they sold him to Hertha Berlin, where matters got worse still, and he scored 12 times in 56 matches in the Bundesliga. Loan spells back in Italy with Fiorentina and Salernitana did not turn around what seemed a sinking ship, and in the summer of 2023 he moved on a free transfer to Istanbul Basaksehir. In Turkey he has finally relocated his mojo, and after a year in the international wilderness he returned to the Poland set-up in March.