Juninho Bacuna – Who is he and how will he fit in at Town?
Juninho Bacuna has signed for Huddersfield Town from FC Groningen for an undisclosed fee. Unlike other recent “undisclosed” transfer fees, there’s no mention in the press of how much we’ve spent. The Transfer markt website values him at £1.35m, but I suspect we’ll have paid more than that.
Who is Juninho Bacuna?
He’s a promising 20-year-old Dutch footballer that has played a surprising number of games for his age. Bacuna has played all his career at FC Groningen, but has experience of playing youth international football for the Netherlands, and was selected for the U21 team as recently as last March.
He’s played over 80 times in the Dutch top-flight, so has been playing first team football for a number of years. To put that into context, Philip Billing is two years older and has ...