View: Frozen-out by Bilic, West Brom player has huge chance to prove manager wrong this week
Kamil Grosicki’s future at West Brom was in doubt for much of the last transfer window with the Poland international regularly linked with a move away from The Hawthorns.
The 32-year-old, who only joined the Baggies from Hull City in January, found himself linked with Besiktas, Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest since the end of last season, with Forest failing to land the speedster due to paperwork being submitted seconds after the transfer deadline.
After it was confirmed that Grosicki won’t be able to join Forest, the winger was added to Slaven Bilic’s Premier League squad but we’re still yet to see him in action for West Brom in the Premier League.
Since the end of last season, Grosicki has played just one of West Brom’s 10 matches across all competitions and that was in the Carabao Cup win over Harrogate Town in September.
Grosicki’s also not made any of Bilic’s matchday squads in the Premier League since the opening day of the season despite fans urging the Albion manager to bring the Poland ace back into the fold.
Kyle Edwards and Matt Phillips have regularly been named on the bench over Grosicki this season, even though neither of them have been as effective as him since his arrival in January.
But Grosicki has a big chance to prove Bilic wrong this week with Poland, who face three massive international fixtures.
On Wednesday night, Poland face their Euro 2012 co-hosts Ukraine in an international friendly before playing against Italy and Netherlands in the UEFA Nations League.
Grosicki is a regular for Poland and is bound to start at least a couple of those matches.
In the last international break, the Szczecin-born attacker scored a hat-trick against Finland before helping Poland earn an impressive draw against Italy and beat Bosnia and Herzegovina.
With West Brom in dire form in the Premier League, there’s no way that Bilic will be able to continue to keep Grosicki on ice if he shines in those three matches.
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