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The Guardian this morning on Grosicki

The Polish winger’s club career has been a slow burner – he has reached the Premier League at the age of 28 after a decade spent in the relative backwaters of Poland, Switzerland, Turkey and France – though there is no doubt Hull have signed a fully fledged international. After making his debut for Poland in 2008 Grosicki is now just short of a half century of caps, and played in all five games at Euro 16 for the side knocked out by Portugal at the quarter-final stage. Exceptionally quick, in Poland he is rated alongside Jakub Blaszczykowski as the national side’s main attacking threat after Robert Lewandowski, though his willingness to track back has been criticised and at club level so has his temperament.

Whether Grosicki can be an adequate replacement for Robert Snodgrass is anyone’s guess. A strong and direct runner, he is not quite as versatile a player and may not weigh in with as many goals, although as Hull have also signed Lazar Markovic on loan it is possible Grosicki will be asked to play more of a central role. Everton, who like to think they know a good winger when they see one, have been linked with the player in the past but Burnley almost brought him to England first. The player had passed a medical and agreed terms at Turf Moor last season before Rennes unexpectedly upped their £7m price and the deal fell through.
 
The Guardian this morning on Grosicki

The Polish winger’s club career has been a slow burner – he has reached the Premier League at the age of 28 after a decade spent in the relative backwaters of Poland, Switzerland, Turkey and France – though there is no doubt Hull have signed a fully fledged international. After making his debut for Poland in 2008 Grosicki is now just short of a half century of caps, and played in all five games at Euro 16 for the side knocked out by Portugal at the quarter-final stage. Exceptionally quick, in Poland he is rated alongside Jakub Blaszczykowski as the national side’s main attacking threat after Robert Lewandowski, though his willingness to track back has been criticised and at club level so has his temperament.

Whether Grosicki can be an adequate replacement for Robert Snodgrass is anyone’s guess. A strong and direct runner, he is not quite as versatile a player and may not weigh in with as many goals, although as Hull have also signed Lazar Markovic on loan it is possible Grosicki will be asked to play more of a central role. Everton, who like to think they know a good winger when they see one, have been linked with the player in the past but Burnley almost brought him to England first. The player had passed a medical and agreed terms at Turf Moor last season before Rennes unexpectedly upped their £7m price and the deal fell through.

Rennes weren't allowed to up their price. They'd already accepted the bid. <whistle>
 
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Following next weeks game against Arsenal we play Burnley, Leicester, and Swansea... if we keep up the current level of performance we are going to stay up with ease.

on the plus side of this Marco will now have a bit of time to work with the players and `coach` his philosophies further, he has achieved this level of performance with very little time to actually coach the team, he has constantly been preparing for games every 3 days since he arrived. I can only see our performances getting better tbh.
 
To be fair, even if we dont get Salibur, Markovic & Grosicki on the wings will cause lots of teams problems. Although it would be nice to sign Salibur as its a permanent deal too.