2023-07-28 11:41:06
This summer market is simmering by the Granadawho chooses the pieces very well to touch up and improve the team for his return to First division. After the incorporation of jesus vallejo, the sports management of the rojiblanco team has focused on reinforcing the core, a position that, although at the moment it is well nourished by players, will also be the one that possibly causes the most casualties. Among all the candidates, Gerard Gumbau He has finally been chosen to arrive in the Nasrid city, although the door is not closed to more signings in that position.
Gerard Gumbau started playing soccer in the lower categories of Gironawhere he reached his subsidiary and became a key player in the 2013/14 season, where he played 34 partieswriting down six goals and winning the prize of going on a couple of occasions with the first team, although he did not make his debut.
The following year he headed for the Blaugrana youth academy, signed for the culé subsidiary and thus made his debut in professional football, since FC Barcelona B was then in Second division. that same season He made his debut with the Blaugrana first team, in a Copa del Rey match against Elche. The following year he played it in 2ºB with the culé subsidiary, since the previous year they failed to save the category. However, Gumbau would get his debut both in the League and in the Champions Leagueplaying a total of 237 minutes with the first team spread over eight games with the first team. In the subsidiary he played 24 partieswriting down three goals and distributing two assists. The 2016/17 season was his last season in Barcelona, where he was promoted again to Second division.
Already in the 2017/18 season he signed for the CD Leganes, recently promoted to the highest category of Spanish football, a new category for the pepinero club. In the Butarque team he played two seasons, where he accumulated 51 games between the League and the Cup, with a balance of two goals and one assist.
Little by little he was losing prominence in the Madrid club, so he packed his bags again and headed for his land and the club that saw him grow, Girona.
In the Girona team, Gumbau spent two seasons, where he failed to return the team from his land to the highest category, staying at the gates on both occasions, being eliminated in the promotion play-off. However, he was a fundamental pillar in the red and white midfield, accumulating 89 parties with the Catalan club, scoring two goals and distributing eight assists.
His outstanding performances caught the attention of Elche, who signed him in the 21/22 season, thus producing his return to First division, like the Alicante club. There he disputed 73 partiesgiving his best version and having the best numbers of his career, because despite the fact that he only scored a goaldistributed 13 assists.
Very precise in the passes
Last season, despite the relegation of the French-green team, Gumbau was a very outstanding player, not only for the team, but also for the League in general, since he was 3rd in key passes, at the level of players like Sergi Darder, Griezmann o Vinicius Jr. In addition, he was the player with the most passes completed in Elche, showing that he can handle the midfield perfectly.
Finally it lands in Paco Lopez’s Granadawhere he hopes to settle down and maintain a regularity that allows him to spend the maximum number of seasons possible in First division.
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