He Atlético de Madrid completed his first signing for the new season, the Croatian international goalkeeper Ivo Grbic, who signed his contract for four seasons, until 2024, after passing the medical examination. How do you pronounce the name of the new mattress goalkeeper? Taking into account that it only has one vowel, it will be difficult for Spanish speakers. But the Croatian wanted to clarify it in a video in which he greeted his new fans.
As announced by the entity in a statement, in an operation that includes the transfer of the Brazilian Alex Dos Santos, goalkeeper of the quarry, to Lokomotiva Zagreb.
Coming from that club, with which he had not participated in the first duels of the course, before his imminent sale, and since last Wednesday in the capital of Spain, when he moved to formalize his incorporation to the Madrid entity, this Thursday he sealed his arrival at Athletic to be second goalkeeper, once Antonio Adam contract ends after two courses: he played seven games, six at the start, with eight goals against, and won the European Super Cup in 2018 against Real Madrid.
“Ivo Grbic He is already a new rojiblanco player after the agreement reached between the Atlético de Madrid and the NK Lokomotiva Zagreb. The goalkeeper, who passed the relevant medical examination in the University of Navarra ClinicHe will play for our team until 2024 ”, the Madrid club announced this afternoon.
“He comes to our team after having signed an exceptional season in which he has been one of the fundamental pillars of the runner-up of the Lokomotiva in Croatia”, Highlighted the Athletic, which has included the Brazilian goalkeeper in the operation Alex Dos Santos, which in turn has been transferred to Lokomotiva Zagreb.
“Ivo Grbic he is a tall goalkeeper (1.96 m) which gives him a good game over the top. His large wingspan makes him cope very well in hand-to-hand trying to cover as much as possible any gap to avoid a goal, but he also has the necessary agility and reflexes to make great saves under the sticks. A young man of great talent arrives at our club, with a lot of projection and called to be one of the reference goalkeepers of the Croatian team, ”Atlético highlighted.
It is his first signing for the 2020-21 campaign, in which, according to Marss Miguel Ángel Gil Marín, its CEO, in an interview with the EFE Agency, “three or four changes” are expected in the squad led by the Argentine coach for eight and a half years Diego Simeone.
Grbic, recently summoned by the absolute selection of Croatia for the matches of the League of Nations early September, he has played 74 games in two seasons in the Lokomotiva Zagreb, second in the league last season.
“At Atlético they compare Grbic with From Gea and Courtois, which he resembles for his height and reflexes. They believe that it could become a new great name of the Athletic”, He explained last Wednesday to the newspaper‘Sportske novosti'Agent Andy Bara, who, according to that publication, has been the intermediary for the operation, the transfer of which has been encrypted by some Croatian media at 8 million euros.
“He Athletic reacted very quickly and offered a figure that could not be rejected, “he added then Bara, which also revealed the interest of West Bromwich Albion English in the Croatian goalkeeper, who, before the Lokomotiva Zagreb, he was active in the Dalmatinac and in the quarry and the first team of the Hajduk, until his departure in 2018.