Transfers 2023-2024

Lois Abbingh leaves Odense at the end of the season. https://sport.tv2.dk/haandbold/2023-01-26-lois-abbingh-forlader-odense

She has been confirmed as a new player in Vipers

Beyza Türkoglu leaves Esbjerg at the end of the season, which means Esbjerg need to sign a new LW. No destination for Beyza as of yet

Those are some interesting transfers.

I love Lara Gonzalez since her old days at Metz, where I expected her to be a star. After all she is 1.85 m and has a strong shot. To my dissaponitment, she kind of faded away in offence through the years, and focussed on being a defence specialist. Even this season at Paris 92, I hoped she will get responsibility in attack after the injury of Meline Nocandy, but no, she is still almost only in defense. I still love her though, I like watching Rapid, and Lara is a defence specalist after all, so I'm happy for all sides here (excpect maybe the attacking side!).

When I read that Lois Abbingh leaves Odense, I wanted to write that she is not good enough anymore anyway. Then I read that Vipers took her, and Vipers are very, very good in picking players and making them great again. I don't want to argue with Vipers, they know better than me, and I don't want to annoy Dutchfan with underrating Dutch players. So good luck Abbingh, you are a sure success!

Türkoglu wasn't good enough for Esbjerg in my opinion, but maybe her main problem was Solberg's pregnancy, which made Türkoglu more important there than she should be. She can do fine as a sub or in a less good team.

https://www.agerpres.ro/sport-intern/2023/01/25/handbal-feminin-cs-gloria-2018-bistrita-nasaud-a-transferat-o-pe-daneza-ida-marie-dahl--1048339

After Niombla, promising pivot Ida-Marie Dahl (24) also signed with Transylvanian team Gloria Bistrița.  

Bobana Klikovac (MNE, LP) Corona Brasov

Asma Elghaoui(LP), Daciana Hosu (GK) and Iryna Glibko (LB) extended their contracts with SCM Ramnicu Valcea until 2025, 2024 and respectively 2024.

First two are very good players

Johanna Farkas (CB) from Dunaújváros to MTK.

https://www.nemzetisport.hu/kezilabda/noi-kezi-az-mtk-hoz-tavozik-a-dkka-hazi-golkiralya-2936991

Kalidiatou Niakaté will part ways with CSM Bucharest at the end of the season. Destination unknown.

Another top class reinforcement for Buducnost.
Again from the great handball nation of Turkey, 22 year old RB Beyza Karacam.
Gyor, Vipers and Metz are panicking.

Kalidiatou Niakaté from CSM to Budućnost !

Looks like Buducnost made a deal with a rich turkish sponsor.. Take some turkish players and in return they get money to buy good players.

Mela Mehmedovic (sister of Majda) signed for Lokomotiva. I think she is a back player but i’m not sure.. i always confuse her with Nina Ramusovic who is Ema’s sister.

Mia Zschocke and Julia Maidhof to Csm Râmnicu Vâlcea
Paula Arcos Poveda to Rapid București
Katerina Jezic to Dunărea Brăila
Tamara Pal, Daria Bucur and Tea Pijevic to Gloria Buzău

Șoimul Carpaților wrote:Tea Pijevic to Gloria Buzău

What a great transfer for them

I don't know Paula Arcos. Any good? She's as small as Vyakhireva?

With all these transfers, Romanian league becomes the most fascinating league for me.

Is Paula Arcos good? Yes! Is she good enough for a CL contender? I don't know and I'm not sure anyone can know, as she played only in the weak Spanish league so far. She is only 1.68 cm, but she is tough and she is real fighter, dominating the game, always trying and never gives up. I would say she is similar to Alicia Fraga Fernandez, maybe less athletic but more stable and does less mistakes.

Arcos is only 21 y.o. and she is used to be the leader of her teams, so she will need time to get used to Rapid. I believe she is a good transfer. In the best case, she will be a solid important player there. In the worst case, she will a player who can change the game from the bench.

About Tamara Pal, our Hungarian friends here in the forum always said she should play in a bigger team than MTK, so it will be interesting to watch her at Gloria Buzau.

Paula Arcos can play on the left back and on the right back, although she's right-handed.
She usually plays on the right back and she isn't centerback or playmaker.

She's the best young player in Spain and with the greatest future. Rapid (and his supporters) must be patient and calm.

Pal reminds me of Gabriella Toth. Hungary is destroying its female generation of juniors and youth way worse than Romania. I warned on the other forum that it is hard to form seniors when the environment is not perfect.

Arcos is certainly a promising transfer, but it is not easy to join a team that wants to qualify for the Final 4 soon. Fraga Fernandez imposed herself from the beginning, and even if I don't like her anymore (for instance, I never liked Glibko), she is a player with personality.

Tea Pijevic is an example. She did not stay at Metz. For such a club, she will be a great transfer. They recently saw her with amazing performances. It is also possible for Tamara Pal to impose herself.

All are welcome! If only there was peace in the world.

Șoimul Carpaților wrote:Julia Maidhof to Csm Râmnicu Vâlcea

She has just had her best handball season. In Europe.

rapid wrote:She has just had her best handball season.

I fail to see any sort of performance from her. And if eurohandball would finally list goals per player seperated by field and 7m the difference would be brutal. Same goes for playing time (7m usually don't count towards it )

Katarina Bulatovic joins Buducnost as sports director and announces bigger ambitions of the club in the coming seasons.

That's good news about Buducnost, too bad forum member NewFan hasn't discovered the new forum yet, he/she would be thrilled.

Two players from Besançon to Brest: Audrey Dembele (LB) and Juliette Faure (CB). Just like Aïssatou Kouyaté two years ago, Dembele signed with Brest and immediately injured her knee. This week she passed the surgery. Kouyaté came back to the fields only now after two years of injuries, hopefully Dembele's fate will be better.

I don't really understand the transfer of Faure. She is a nice player, very creative but alst unstable and doing many mistakes. She is only 1.65 and not even in the starting lineup of Besançon when everyone is healty, so I doubt how much she can contribute to Brest. She is still young though, 23, and I'll be happy if she proves me wrong.

Two more players leave Besançon in the end of the season: The Polish RB Natalia Nosek (to Gloria Bisrita. She was solid both in defence and offence, but lately it seems she doesn't get along with the coach), and winger Camille Aoustin, whose future is still unknown.

Kim Naidzinavicius to bensheim/Auerbach (FB bensheim)

Bianca Schanssema (GK, 18 y/o, Netherlands ) to København Håndbold for 4 years https://www.handbalinside.nl/schansema-tekent-voor-vier-jaar-in-denemarken/

Seynabou Mbengue Rodriguez (Las Palmas) to Gloria Bistrița

Alicia Stolle to BVB handball (fb bvb)