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[Albion] Brajan Gruda, what does he do?

















Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
31,583
A wide man who does not have pace or trickery. I've not been impressed with what I've seen so far, but I hope he can build on his fine assist for Mitoma's goal. Personally, bottom line - I'd sell to a decent Bundesliga side while his stock in Germany is still reasonably high.
 


pigmanovich

Good Old Sausage by the Sea
Mar 16, 2024
3,167
London
A wide man who does not have pace or trickery. I've not been impressed with what I've seen so far, but I hope he can build on his fine assist for Mitoma's goal. Personally, bottom line - I'd sell to a decent Bundesliga side while his stock in Germany is still reasonably high.
He’s not a wide man, is the thing, he’s a 10 being played out of position at RM.

Anyway, whom do you propose we sell him to, some underdog chasing Europe like Mainz? :wink:
 


Oh_aye

Well-known member
Jul 8, 2022
2,617
I'll keep repeating it, I'm pretty convinced Gruda will be a world class player. His confidence and directness is rare in someone of his age. When things "click" he'll be one of our best players. Feel free to quote this in a year or two!
I think he's got something too, and said very early on in the season. Theres somwthing a bit Grealish about uim. HOWEVER, I also now think he could really do with a loan. Unless he properly Ayari's it during the summer and comes back on another level. I think him setting up the goal covered his usual decision issues, too slow on the ball and ALWAYS overcomplicates things, runs into dead ends, turns back one too many times etc.

That pass to mitoma...Ach. so annoying. The simplest of passes.

I reckon a season on loan and he'll be able to iron out all that stuff.
 






Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
31,583
He’s not a wide man, is the thing, he’s a 10 being played out of position at RM.

Anyway, whom do you propose we sell him to, some underdog chasing Europe like Mainz? :wink:
We could do worse than speak to Bayern Munich about a swap deal for Sacha Boey. They were very interested in Gruda, we were interested in Boey and we need a pacy right back.
 


BadFish

Huge Member
Oct 19, 2003
19,706
I'll keep repeating it, I'm pretty convinced Gruda will be a world class player. His confidence and directness is rare in someone of his age. When things "click" he'll be one of our best players. Feel free to quote this in a year or two!
I agree, I am surprised that people don't see the potential. To be fair though I am not sure he will end up a wide player.
 




Klaas

I've changed this
Nov 1, 2017
2,754
I'll keep repeating it, I'm pretty convinced Gruda will be a world class player. His confidence and directness is rare in someone of his age. When things "click" he'll be one of our best players. Feel free to quote this in a year or two!
More or less my thinking although I’m not as confident as you!
I like him, he hasn’t set the premier league alight, but his confidence and directness are just what we need at times.
 








trueblue

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
11,320
Hove
I really haven’t spotted the brilliance some have seen, other than on internet clips of him playing elsewhere. He’s ok and must have potential but generally runs into a lot of blind alleys. Probably about the same level as Buonanotte was when he started (and similarly shunted out to the wing, which didn’t help). I thought Facundo was coming on in leaps and bounds and starting to look a real player, stronger, more aggressive, more productive. Don’t think he deserved to drop behind Gruda in the pecking order. I don’t want any of our players to fail - hopefully Gruda will get better and better - but would prefer the loans to be the other way around next time.
 












Dibdab

Well-known member
Sep 28, 2021
1,209
I thought Facundo was coming on in leaps and bounds and starting to look a real player, stronger, more aggressive, more productive. Don’t think he deserved to drop behind Gruda in the pecking order.
Facu didnt fall behind Gruda. It was recognised that he needed far more game time than we have been able to give Gruda this season to develop and that was only going to happen somewhere else. That was going pretty well untiol Horse face turned up at Leicester.
 


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