Regardless of the team they play for or where they play, certain players practically always deliver goals. On the other hand, certain individuals require an appropriate setting, a suitable framework, and a suitable supervisor to flourish.
Rangers seemed to check enough of those boxes during their one and only season at Ibrox under their former £2.5 million signings. You can’t argue with the statistics, even though it seemed that Mick Beale never truly saw Antonio Colak’s potential and preferred a striker who could give more out-of-possession than this traditional penalty-box poacher.
Colak totaled eighteen goals throughout all leagues.
To those who witnessed Colak convert opportunities like Ally McCoist in his prime during 2022–2023 season, it may come as a surprise that the well-traveled center striker has found life so challenging since departing Rangers for a new beginning in Italy.
At his current team, a former Rangers striker has “disappeared
However, a cursory look at Colak’s well-stocked resume will reveal that famine and feast typically follow one another.
In two seasons, he scored forty-five goals in Croatia’s Rijeka, then only four at Greek team PAOK.Then Colak feasted on goals against Rangers and Malmo. After a promising start, he was starved of service at Parma and has only played in three of his last eighteen games for his new employers.
The international player for Croatia last made an attempt in October. Colak’s chances of transferring clubs for a fourth consecutive summer seem to be growing with each week he spends collecting dust on the bench, since he has only appeared once, for a mere nine minutes, in Parma’s last six Serie B games.
One more new beginning?
Coach Fabio Pecchia of Parma deserves credit for understanding why things aren’t really working well.
Colak is the kind of striker that depends on luck. Additionally, his influence is typically fairly small if he isn’t receiving them. The quick Ange-Yoan Bonny is still favored then, presumably because Pecchia believes he can provide a more balanced danger than the frequently lethal but possibly one-dimensional Colak.
According to the Parma Live website, “Pecchia has alternated his strikers much more in recent months.” “Also giving Colak, who (has) recently vanished, few opportunities.”
There were moments when Colak at Rangers felt like the right man under the wrong manager. Nothing about it is “right” at Parma.
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