GOALKEEPER Bobby Olejnik has insisted that he has “no idea” where his future lies but that he would consider a return to York City.

Olejnik is out of contract at parent club Peterborough, having been transfer-listed by previous manager Darren Ferguson last summer and allowed to spend the final four months of this campaign at Bootham Crescent.

Former Manchester United and Wrexham midfielder Ferguson left London Road in February but Olejnik remains uncertain whether his position at Posh has changed as a consequence.

Dave Robertson was installed as caretaker chief following Ferguson’s departure and is now expected to be given the job on a full-time basis when Olejnik’s outlook might become clearer.

The former Austria under-21 international said: “I’ve no idea whether I’ve played my last game for York and that’s completely out of my hands because there are so many other factors. One is my situation at Peterborough.

“I don’t know what their thoughts are and it might be too early. I’ve not thought about my future to be honest.

“My objective has been to help York stay up. My entire focus has been on that but I’ve enjoyed the football and enjoyed playing with the lads so, if there is something for me, then, yes, I would like to work with them again.

“Once the dust settles, we will see what the options are and what happens next.”

If Olejnik does bid farewell to the Minstermen this summer, he signed off in style with a man-of- the-match display during Saturday’s season-ending 1-1 draw against Portsmouth.

The 28-year-old shot-stopper made a string of impressive saves at Fratton Park and, while typically modest about his performance, admitted that he was pleased to earn a recall after losing his place to Michael Ingham for six games following his red card at Mansfield.

He said: “Sometimes you make the saves and sometimes you don’t. That’s just what happens, but I enjoyed it.

“I didn’t want to finish on sort of a low and not play again after the Mansfield match. I’d had a chat with the gaffer and said I wanted to play again before the end of the season. I was hoping I might have done a couple of games before, but it was nice to get a run-out before the season ended.”

Olejnik had no complaints about manager Russ Wilcox’s decision to prefer Ingham following the Vienna-born keeper’s suspension.

The City chief also left Olejnik out of the squad altogether, opting for more firepower on the bench with only five loan signings permitted in any match-day party.

On that situation, Olejnik said: “I just wanted the club to stay up – that was the most important thing.

“We’ve had a really good group of lads. There were no selfish players and, sometimes in football, sacrifices are made. That’s just how it goes.

“In the end, we stayed up so everything worked out well.”

Olejnik also added that the manner in which City staved off the threat of relegation with three games to play following a six-match unbeaten run, including four wins and two draws, should provide optimism for the future.

Rather than looking at 19 drawn league games as a negative, he also cited Stephane Zubar’s point-saving, stoppage-time tackle at Portsmouth as further cause for encouragement.

He said: “If you just look at the last game, we could have easily turned up, done whatever and gone home, but I will remember Zubes’ tackle with 30 seconds to go because moments like that are why we have stayed up.

We’ve always had that kind of commitment with players chasing other players down and encouraging each other to make those last-ditch challenges and blocks.

“I can’t remember how many blocks we made at Portsmouth, but it was a lot. We could have lost that game, like many others.

“I know people will look at the season and say we’ve drawn too many times but you could look at it in a different way. We could have lost more games but we have managed to get draws because of tackles like that.

“Everybody has given 100 per cent in all the matches from front to back whether I’ve been playing or not. The players that haven’t been involved have been encouraging everyone else because, in the end, it was all for the greater cause of staying up and there’s so much potential for next season because of that.”

Scunthorpe, meanwhile, have released former York College goalkeeper Sam Slocombe.

The 26-year-old shot-stopper was first choice at Glanford Park under City boss Wilcox but Luke Daniels became the Iron’s regular number one after signing from Southend in January.

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