ADELAIDE United’s championship winning striker Bruce Djite’s availability for a shock Reds return during FIFA’s January transfer window will be known within days.

Djite’s boss, Yeom Tae-Young at Suwon FC, is expected to soon tell the striker whether he is a required player for the 2017 season, after the club was relegated to the Republic of Korea’s second tier league this month.

Yeom Tae-Young is also the mayor of the city of Suwon, which owns the club.

“Now, in the current situation once the team has gone down, I think the club needs to wait for the president to decide on the budgets (and if) my contract will stay the same,” said Djite, who is back in Adelaide on a break.

“But whether they try to sell me on or whether they want to push to go back up — so I’ll have to see all those different scenarios — I don’t know.

“I’ll find out in the next week or so.

“When January preseason starts, I’ll 100 per cent go back there to start but they’ll let me know.

“I’d like to stay there because I enjoyed my time there and I like the K-League. I did OK there considering I got thrown in the deep end and that sort of stuff.

“That would be ideal.

“That’s what we’re waiting for.

“But also if I did come back to Australia ... if Adelaide would have me ... but they’ve got Sergi (Guardiola) and Sergi is pretty good.”

Djite signed an 18-month deal with a further 12-month option with Suwon in July.

The club recruited heavily in the middle of the year in a ploy to avoid relegation which only became inevitable after the last round of the K-League this month.

Djite played his part in the battle to secure a spot in the top flight, scoring five goals in 13 matches.

He arrived at the club in red-hot form.

The move to South Korea came soon after Djite had produced his best A-League form, scoring 11 goals in the Reds last 14 games, as United stormed to the double.

“I always want a challenge I always want to see the other side, for me my family is all over the world as well,’’ Djite said about the move to Suwon.

“In Korea I’m closer to my family than I am in Adelaide; my parents are in Africa, my brother is in New York, my other brother is in Sydney but my extended family, they’re all in Europe and in Africa, I’m halfway.

“But it was a chance to go to Korea and experience Korea.

“I took the decision I didn’t really know if it was right or wrong and I thought I’m going to give it a shot and then I’ll learn on the run.

“With Adelaide I’ve won everything except the Champions League and you never know I might come back but the offer (from Suwon) was very good as well.

“My gut feel was to take the offer and I didn’t want to think my way out of my initial decision.”

Djite said he had picked up some of the Korean language but he could not yet read or write Korean.

He said he had settled in easily but had to make do without his family for the first four months of his contract.

“It’s different it’s obviously hard without the family. I hope to never do that again but it’s just another sacrifice in a long list that we (football players) make,’’ he said.

“Korea is a nice country; it’s really good and the people are nice, it’s safe, I felt very comfortable there.

“It wasn’t like I went to a country where you’ve got the culture shock there because there’s many different things but when you’re in nicer surroundings it makes it a little bit easier and I was busy.

“I came in, there was no adaptation phase.

“I came in and landed on Monday, had the medical on Tuesday, signed on Wednesday and played my first game on the Friday (in July).

“I didn’t even know the players’ first names I had to find a car, an apartment all those teething things that you have to do.

“When you’re busy it’s a bit easier but as the season went on and I got settled there’s things you start to think about like the family.

“The more you’ve got more time to sit down and think, you’ve got an apartment that’s empty and you’re by yourself and the house is not full of action.”