Champion League
Source Close To Swedish Prodigy Reveals “Concrete Interest”
Djurgardens IF teenager Gideon Granstrom is on trial at Sunderland forward of a possible transfer to the Championship membership, in response to the participant’s father and agent.
The participant’s father has mentioned that the Black Cats will need to have “concrete curiosity” in the event that they’ve invited Granstrom for a trial on the membership.
What is the newest on Gideon Granstrom to Sunderland?
It stays to be seen whether or not or not Granstrom’s trial at Sunderland is a profitable one this summer season, however the 17-year-old has actually proven potential up to now.
Talking about his son’s trial on the Championship aspect, Granstrom’s father, additionally his agent, informed Swedish outlet Fotbol STHLM: “They caught his eye when he was with the Swedish U18 nationwide workforce in Wales this summer season. After the 2 worldwide matches, he was invited to a pre-season tour with their U23 workforce after they needed to take a more in-depth have a look at him.
“He went there earlier this week and is doing his first coaching session right now. He stays about ten days in complete. They may spend one week on this tour, beginning in Norwich, then ending with three days at Sunderland.
“It is open. From our aspect, we concentrate on the sporting, it’s instructive to come back there and meet a unique soccer tradition and totally different means of taking part in.
“Then it is a clean slate what occurs after that. We’ve got had a dialogue with Bosse and Djurgården on a regular basis, who’re conscious of the entire thing. However a membership like Sunderland does not invite a participant except there’s a concrete curiosity.”
Who’s Gideon Granstrom?
Nonetheless simply 17, Granstrom may have a giant choice to make relating to his future this summer season. Whether it is to be Sunderland, then he’d observe the development of younger gamers to have come by means of the door beneath Tony Mowbray.
We have seen stars akin to Amad Diallo thrive beneath the supervisor’s steerage. And Granstrom will merely be seeking to take an analogous profession trajectory because the Manchester United winger.
It might be fairly the soar for him to go from Swedish soccer, the place he has appeared within the squad solely a choose few instances for Djurgardens with out getting on the pitch, to then be part of Sunderland, who made the play-offs within the Championship final season.
It is possible that {the teenager} can be thrown into the U23s slightly than any first-team motion, ought to trials finish efficiently – it’s there that he may take his growth up one other degree or two.
As for Sunderland, as a complete, after struggling semi-final heartbreak towards eventual play-off winners Luton City, they will be seeking to go one higher within the forthcoming marketing campaign.
With the likes of relegated Leicester Metropolis, Leeds United, and Southampton to compete towards, nonetheless, the Black Cats could wrestle to trigger as massive a shock as final season after they secured a high six place of their first yr again in England’s second tier.
It’s a squad stuffed with surprises, although, so something remains to be potential with loads of time left in pre-season to proceed preparations, and welcome additional additions to Mowbray’s more and more spectacular Championship squad.
Sunderland may but discover themselves with a teenage Swedish prodigy within the type of Granstrom, too, and sources do not come a lot nearer than the personal participant’s father/agent, so it will be fascinating to see how the curiosity pans out.
