[Albion] Brajan Gruda, what does he do?

[jackalbion]

So after yesterday we can take it you are on board? :wink :

Yes he was great, his second assist especially was pivotal

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Brajan Gruda is still only 20 and each time I see him play he looks better and better. Canny positional sense and the headed assist for Mitoma's equaliser was very clever indeed. Another who is only in his first season and will only improve going forward.
Full German international next season I think.


TNBA


TTF

 

[Justice]

Brajan Gruda is still only 20 and each time I see him play he looks better and better. Canny positional sense and the headed assist for Mitoma's equaliser was very clever indeed. Another who is only in his first season and will only improve going forward.
Full German international next season I think.


TNBA


TTF

Hansi Flick and Nagelsmann both big admirers, some on here don’t rate him

 

[WATFORD zero]

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.

My thoughts, although I am warming to Gruda more after yesterday. As the quality of the squad (and loanees) increases, it's harder to see where we can loan players to

 

[jackalbion]

 

[brighton_tom]

Brajan Gruda is still only 20 and each time I see him play he looks better and better. Canny positional sense and the headed assist for Mitoma's equaliser was very clever indeed. Another who is only in his first season and will only improve going forward.
Full German international next season I think.


TNBA


TTF

It's almost as if these young players just need a bit of time to adapt to a new league, and bed into a new team.. rather than being written off half way through their first season.

 

[trueblue]

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.

I believe Buonanotte would have been more effective with the minutes he did get (as he was showing under Cooper at Leicester) and make a better case for regular inclusion...but we'll never know. Will be interesting to see what happens next season.

 

[London Irish]

He wasn't seriously awarded an assist for the winner, was he? honestly devalues that entire stat metric

 

[dazzer6666]

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.

Don’t think he necessarily dropped behind Gruda in the pecking order, but he was going to be behind Pedro and Rutter (at least) so was sent on loan to get more game time than he would with us - just didn’t work out because RVN is clueless.

 

[dazzer6666]

It's almost as if these young players just need a bit of time to adapt to a new league, and bed into a new team.. rather than being written off half way through their first five minutes

…corrected for accuracy

 

[Lady Whistledown]

He wasn't seriously awarded an assist for the winner, was he? honestly devalues that entire stat metric

Listen, if it builds his confidence to look at the stats and count the assists, then who cares?

Frankly the entire West Ham defence should get an assist for that goal, but what the hell.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

He wasn't seriously awarded an assist for the winner, was he? honestly devalues that entire stat metric

Almost as good an assist as the one Estupinan got credited for Mitoma’s amazing solo goal away to Wolves last season!

 

[London Irish]

Listen, if it builds his confidence to look at the stats and count the assists, then who cares?

Frankly the entire West Ham defence should get an assist for that goal, but what the hell.

Lol as if pointless stats make the slightest difference to the life of pro footballers. Good luck to the Gruda fan club tho, but it was Gomez who deserved the credit for the first “assist” too - magical pin point ball

 

[akipling]

Lol as if pointless stats make the slightest difference to the life of pro footballers. Good luck to the Gruda fan club tho, but it was Gomez who deserved the credit for the first “assist” too - magical pin point ball

I’d rank the Gruda cushioned header over the Gomez cross, Marginally