Yeah he was one of the names that Mel Reddy said was a the list, but that Bayern moved too early on him to give other teams a chance. I mean we all know his positives but I would be very concerned about getting a guy thats barely played in two years and there may be questions about his training. Yes Bayern is tough to break into but if memory serves he had a bit of a weird exit from Ajax too; lost some minutes his final season to Kenneth Taylor. Just a lot of red flags here. Feels very Dutch Pep. Feels similar to a guy like Matheus Nunes who they’ve been linked with, and similar problem that I don’t know how he makes LFC better/helps the things they are bad at. Don’t like the strategy and really think they need to sort out the DOF position ASAP (guy from Eintract Frankfurt was linked recently) before investing. Don’t think what they are looking at now in terms of players besides Bellingham ; i.e. Gravenberch, Mount, Nunes makes any sense
1. Bayern just bought him last summer, so it would be 1 year of limited PT, not two.
Plus he's been a bit of a victim of Sabitzer's weird Bayern tenure. If Marcel had struggled as much this season as he did last season, then Gravenberch would've seen a lot of the ~1000 minutes that Nagelsmann gave to Sabitzer this season.
But since Sabitzer finally settled in, the young dutchmen fell to 4th or 5th choice in the midfield. Won't be surprised if Gravenberch has a similarly much improved second season at FCB.
2. He only missed time for Ajax at the end because of fitness, a bout of corona in the winter an injury to his knee at the end of the season. He played the full 90 in 7 straight matches before hurting his knee.
