West Brom's £800k agreement with Hull City promised so much but it flopped: View | OneFootball

West Bromwich Albion have been a side that has bounced around from the Premier League to the Championship in recent time.

That has resulted in the club seeing a high turnover in players, as some players have come to help them get out of the Championship while others have arrived to play Premier League football.

As with any club, the Baggies have had players come in who have excelled and have been great purchases for the club, but they have also had some arrive who have really disappointed, and it has in some sense been a waste of money.

Winger Kamil Grosicki will probably fit into the latter, as he shone at Hull City. West Brom decided to snap him up, but he failed to replicate that previous form and, in the end, flopped.

Kamil Grosicki was a footballer who was unknown to English football until 2017, as he spent the early parts of his career abroad.

The winger started his football career in his home country of Poland and stayed there until 2011, despite having a brief loan spell in Switzerland midway through.

Grosicki enjoyed a three-year spell with Turkish side Sivasspor before enjoying another three-year spell, this time in France, with Stade Rennais.

The Polish international had impressed wherever he played, so in 2017, Hull City decided to sign the player in a deal worth £7 million.

It seemed like a hefty price to pay, but he was soon paying the club back, as he was impressive in the two and a half years in the Championship as well as a season in the Premier League.

So, when West Brom announced the signing of Grosicki in 2020 for a deal worth £800,000, most thought the Baggies pulled off an excellent deal and left Hull licking their wounds, but in fact, it was a deal that just never got going.

West Brom’s signing of Kamil Grosicki promised so much but failed

When Hull City signed Kamil Grosicki in 2017, it was unclear what the Tigers were going to get from the player, but it soon became clear how good he could be.

The Polish international struggled in the Premier League, as he failed to score but did register five assists.

However, in the Championship, Grosicki was exceptional, as he scored nine goals and grabbed six assists in the 2017/18 season. He then followed that campaign up with nine goals and 12 assists, and even though he played just six months of the 2019/20 season, Grosicki scored seven goals and chipped in with four assists.

So, given that West Brom were pushing for promotion that season, when they decided to sign Grosicki, it was expected that he would do even better for a side playing higher up the table.

However, if anything, it turned out to be the wrong move for the player and the wrong move for the club.

For the rest of that 2019/20 season, Grosicki played 14 times for the Midlands side, during which he scored one goal and recorded three assists.

But that was as good as it got for the winger. As West Brom were promoted at the end of that season, the following campaign saw the Polish international on the sidelines for the majority of it.

In the 2020/21 season, Grosicki played more for West Brom in Premier League 2 than he did in the actual Premier League.

The winger appeared just three times, two of which he started, and he averaged around 50 minutes on the pitch per game.

Grosicki managed no goals but did average 1.0 shots per game, so while he didn’t score, he did contribute to an assist. Furthermore, he created one big chance and collected 1.0 key passes.

Grosicki ended up finishing that season with a Sofascore.com rating of 6.47, given that he hardly played for the club.

Out of everything involving the deal for Grosicki, West Brom will be pleased that signing him didn’t cost the club an absolute fortune, because if it did, it would have made the fact that he didn’t do very well even worse.

Instead, signing him for £800,000 was better for the club, as they didn’t waste millions of pounds.