Ivo Grbic grabbed the Lille flag after the victory against Marseille and waved it effusively. His team had just knocked down one of the ogres in Ligue 1 (2-0). Lille had three consecutive victories and had just forgotten the bad feelings at the start of the tournament. The league champion had not started well after beating PSG in the Super Cup. But things have changed and Grbic was ecstatic. He had completed a match with a clean sheet. He made three saves against Marseille, one of them important, and at the end of the game he made clear his moral state.
The 25-year-old Croatian goalkeeper has left with his team with his homework done. He left Atlético to play, to have the minutes that Oblak's presence denied him, and he has disputed everything. As soon as he landed, Gourvennec put him to play and until now. 810 minutes in the nine games, two of them in the Champions League, leaving a very good impression. Lille was the team that most stubbornly to get his arrival. He even made an offer to buy the rights of the goalkeeper, but finally he left on loan. There Berta played a decisive role. Atlético's sports director holds the goalkeeper in high esteem, then and now.
The rojiblanco sports director refused to sell Grbic, after the door was initially opened to a transfer. And now he is very much on top, even to the surprise of the goalkeeper himself, who when he left he thought that the monitoring would be less exhaustive. But Berta calls Grbic often, after each match, to comment on what has happened, her feelings and the things that the sporting director thinks he has to correct. The goalkeeper is comforted. Berta also did a lot to secure a place for her to play from day one. So it has been.
His future at Atlético is not closed, although with Oblak as rojiblanco, it seems very difficult. Lille has a purchase option of 8 million, but the truth is that in the last month there are already teams that have been interested in Grbic. There was a good memory in the scouts of the Croatian of his times in Lokomotiva and now he has returned to transmit the same feelings with the rhythm of the game that he acquired in Lille. In the Premier he was followed closely before signing for Atlético and they continue to do so. His future will clear in June. Meanwhile, its objective is to continue growing.