Brent McGrath will not sign a new deal with Brondby at the end of the season. This is after only making 8 appearances off the bench as the club is on the back-end of another dismal season and is now facing a relegation battle.

Close sources have indicated that McGrath will be offered trials for at least two teams in the Scottish Premier League at the end of the season. McGrath holds a British and an Irish passport.

But, it is appearing more likely that McGrath will be lured to his hometown of Sydney, where he began his football career at Sydney United. It is believed that WSW are getting ready to offer him a contract as the club's Junior Marquee, before any other A-League clubs get a chance.


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I haven't seen him play at all but he obviously did something right in that camp a few years back to get that cap. Just a shame that Europe doesn't seem to be working out for him.

Would be a get pick up. If he does come back, hopefully it can reignite his career and leads to a few european contract offers

I'm surprised any professional club wants him at all, and honestly figured he'd be playing State League in Australia next season. In a Brøndby side which has performed really poorly this season, McGrath has been one of the worst. He was a promising talent a few years back, but he's turning 22 soon and still hasn't stepped up to the plate despite having been given several chances.

Ange picked him as the youngest player in our ill-fated U/17 WC qualifiers in Laos in 2006, but maybe he wants to forget all about that!

it's crazy to think that there are some rules that aren't there solely for Sydney fc, hey?

I'd love the lad to succeed, and hope his next move puts him on the pitch a bit more - but you have to ask what's going on if he can only get 8 games, off the bench, in a poor Danish side. End of the day 2 goals in 38 league appearances (14 of them in the starting line-up).

i think he should come back, it did aaron mooy the world of good and got him a few socceroo caps.

Edited by shallow hal wants a gal: 4/5/2013 12:24:42 PM

I think Brent will surprise a few people if he comes back. He's a capped socceroo for a reason.

Maybe he's a player who would do better dropping back into a more defensive position, such as d.m., given that he seems to be struggling in attacking roles.

Cool, I can think af at least 11 other players that got their mojo back under popa

Well, he's got a better resume than Stella and he got a 2 year deal with Victory :lol: If any A-League team wants McGrath, I hope they are smart enough to sign him short term for minimum wage. He's never proven himself as a senior player, and that is all he deserves.

Well there's a surefire way to destroy this league...

This is like any industry man, you've gotta treat people accordingly. If Brent came back he'd be on probably a 2 year deal worth $100K P/A or more.

I'd say signing up scrubs to lucrative deals just because they played in Europe and used to be talents is a surefire way to destroy the league, but hey, whatever floats your boat. Have you actually seen McGrath play recently?

Gotta agree with Redandwhite on this one.

Davies, Patafta, Stella..

Still a bit early to write off Davies, he still has a year or two to sort himself out. But Stella idk just have zero confidence that he will actually do anything but happy for him to prove me wrong

I'm also holding out a bit of hope for Davies. What I saw wasn't too bad, but an improvement is needed. Stella, well.. He got signed for a few big clubs for a reason I suppose, let's hope he's not Patafta Mk II.

Sorry, you're pretty much right on this one. I just get frustrated when people on here think that all players who aren't marquees should be on $40K per year. I caught a game of Brent's early this season and 3 or 4 last season, and I he only really impressed on 1 occasion. That said, if he moves to the A-League, he'll have more time on the ball, and that'll greatly benefit him.

But like I said before, if he comes back, he'll still be on 100K + (rightly or wrongly)

he played thirty minutes last night

brondby shouldn't be underestimated. For such a small country the standard in Denmark is phenomenal

I would rate brondby as somewhere between the English championship and theEPL. Perhaps more toward the epl

If we had a young player playing for reading 30 minutes every few weeks we would keep an eye on him

this guy could be good
its too early to tell really

Edited by grazorblade: 17/5/2013 10:20:23 AM

I am Danish and I follow the superliga, and your estimation of the quality of the current Brøndby side is WAY off.

Edited by Redandwhite: 17-5-2013 08:00:49

Swedish here, and while current Brøndby estimation is maybe off, they have the potential to be back to full strength in one season easily. Things haven't been going too well for the for the past decade to be honest and they are in a pretty poor position at the moment, but they have the support and potential to come back quite quickly.

The last great side they had would've been 8-9 years ago when they had Kahlenberg, Agger, Elmander, Ankergren and Skoubo in the side. Pretty hard to repeat that.

Edited by Draupnir: 17/5/2013 08:29:39 PM

Brøndby under Michael Laudrup was an amazing side. I don't know about EPL standard though. I think the only Scandinavian team even approaching those standards, would be FC Copenhagen, but they are like Celtic in Scotland, in a league of their own.

Oh yeah, definitely not EPL standard, but by Superliga standard that team was a powerhouse! There have been a few other Swedish (Djurgården and AIK) and Norwegian (Rosenborg especially late 90s-Early 00s) teams that have also approached that level. Rosenborg actually held the record for the team that qualified for the UCL group stage more most seasons in a row until Manchester United beat that.

West Sydney Croatia won't be signing him, name doesn't end in "ic".

-PB

Should sign for Perth with a name like McGrath.

Ooh ahh. Does he look good in Pink?

racist pig!!

Edited by Draupnir: 22/5/2013 08:55:14 AM

http://ekstrabladet.dk/sport/fodbold/dansk_fodbold/superligaen/broendby/article1991470.ece

Some new developments in the McGrath saga. Danish national tabloid are writing that several clubs in Australia should be looking at McGrath, including Brisbane Roar, Victory, Sydney FC, and Western Sydney Wanderers (in this article referred to as Western Australia Wanderers :lol: ) Ekstrabladet is a tabloid though, so take it with a grain of salt.

Well hopefully if this is the case they won't sign any more foreign players

I actually posted this on the 3rd May..

McGrath said a few days ago to a Danish media (bold.dk) that he was looking for another club in Europe. Here's an article in English recapping that: http://www.goal.com/en-au/news/4019/transfer-zone/2013/06/15/4049916/mcgrath-eyes-europe-stay-after-brondby-release

I would say that I hope for the Wanderers that he hasn't signed for them, and that he is staying in Europe.

It's more likely they are using it to keep 150k out of the salary cap for the last squad space. FFA probably won't fund it.

I find it funny none of the clubs have any Junior Marquee. Seems obvious to me that you'd just pick the highest paid player under 23 (or 21 or whatever it is) and save some cap room.

Yeah you'd think they all should do that. Maybe all clubs do but just don't come out and declare that player x is their junior marque.

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lol hardly, just making an observation of your pentaethnic club.

-PB

Thanks :d

Brent McGrath (22) is currently on-trial at Mansfield town

League two... Not a horrid option. As a striker/winger he really is in the English shop window there. Creative and attacking players stand out In those lower leagues and can move on as early as January.

It'll be interesting to see if he makes an impact.

To a degree but i feel the A-league is a very good shop window today and if you perform in it you'll definitely get noticed

Almost anywhere is a better shop window than League 2. Unless you're a teenager looking for first team action. Another David Carney on the way..?