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Former Blues Striker Bajner Back in Football After Covid Struggles
Thursday, 22nd Feb 2024 13:49 Former Blues striker Balint Bajner has revealed he has overcome repeated hospitalisations with Covid-19 to return to football after a three-year hiatus. Bajner, 33, last had a club, Nemzeti Bajnokság II (second tier) side Pécs in his native Hungary, in the 2020/21 season but has now signed for Haladás, another Nemzeti Bajnokság II club, who are based in his home town of Szombathely. The striker, who made one start – against Fulham on the opening day of 2014/15 which lasted only 44 minutes – and six sub appearances for the Blues having been signed by Mick McCarthy in the summer of 2014 after a trial following the 6ft 6in tall frontman’s release by Borussia Dortmund, revealed on Instagram that he had been through a tough few years. “It was a hard time,” he wrote. “I lost my father, Covid six times, four times hospital admission by ambulance, one year post-Covid-19 syndrome. “But now I’m more motivated than ever, I’m more determined than ever, I’m more hungry than ever, I’m stronger than ever. I did it, I’m back!” During Bajner’s brief spell with the Blues, which came to an end after six months in January 2015 when the striker joined Notts County,
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