Erdal Rakip ready for Malmö FF – the hero of gold returns

Rumor has it that Erdal Rakip is on the road in winter for AIK and Djurgården.

However, Kvällsposten had already revealed on January 14 that the Malmö FF was at hand and that the return to the mother club was a topical issue for the midfielder.

Now the transition is official.

– I wanted to have some playing time and I thought it was just coming back to Sweden to start over. Malmo opened the doors and could not refuse. There was no doubt, says Rakip in the press release.

Malmö FF had the ambition that Rakip already join the club during the training camp in Spain, but that never happened.

It is still unclear what led the transition to an end, but to pay a lower tax rate on a possible sign-up bonus, it must be paid while the player resides at the end of the transition. foreign and, according to Kvällsposten's experience, doubts about the rules applicable if a player connects to his new club while he is abroad.

Rakip back from the cold

Erdal Rakip grew up in Rosengård and has already started playing for Malmö FF at the club's football school.

– I missed everyone. The fans, the players and everyone who works here. You never feel outside. Everyone cares for each other. It's a pleasure to be back, says Erdal Rakip, whose new contract is in effect for the 2022 season.

Rakip, who turned 23 on Wednesday, made his debut in the MFF A team in the summer of 2013 when Rikard Norling formed the club. He has also won four gold medals at Malmö FF (2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017). participated in the MFF in two group games of the Champions League.

Erdal Rakip left Malmö FF in January 2018 for a free transfer and moved to Benfica Portugal from where he was immediately loaned to Crystal Palace in the English Premier League.

Neither in Benfica nor Crystal Palace, however, Rakip had time to play in the A teams.

– We tried to extend the agreement of Erdal but without achieving it. He went to Malmö FF and has been incredibly developed over the past two seasons. We wish him the best in European football and hope that he will come back one day, said Daniel Andersson in January 2018, when it became clear that Rakip had left MFF.

A little less than 14 months later, Rakip is back in Malmö.

– Even though he has had a good training abroad, he still has to play games to get over it. But with the goal awareness that he has, he will soon be competing for real, says Daniel Andersson now.