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Mainz chief Bungert explains Gruda sale to Brighton

Mainz chief Bungert explains Gruda sale to Brighton
Mainz chief Bungert explains Gruda sale to BrightonTribalfootball
Mainz sports director Niko Bungert has explained the sale of Brajan Gruda to Brighton.

The winger left for England for a fee of €30m.

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"We agreed: It had to be a sum that would enable us to tackle a few projects here in the long term. For example, the construction of the new office," Bungert told Kicker, "we want and need to generate a transfer surplus, also in order to deal with infrastructural issues.

"This principle has made us an economically healthy club for decades. But we also used a good portion of the sum to bring in three more reinforcements. "

He also said: "We will not be able to replace Brajan or Sepp (van den Berg), who each moved to or within England for 30 million euros, one-to-one. We are bringing in players with great potential who can develop. Sepp and Brajan were also nowhere near the level they were at when they left us a year ago."