Unwanted centre forward Edgar Bruno has been rescued from his spell in limbo at Al Wasl after an agreement was reached with Super Lig new boys Adanaspor Friday.
Bruno, 29, was dumped out of the Cheetahs’ four-player foreign quota last January only five months since he had joined from Al Shabab on a two-year contract. The decision against then coach Gabriel Calderon’s wishes was to prove a cataclysmic one, repeat dissent from him about shocking replacement Rogerinho seeing a once-promising campaign peter out with a sixth-place finish in the Arabian Gulf League and the Argentine lose his job in May.
The deal brings an end to a four-season stay in the UAE, in which 44 top-flight goals were scored in 83 games at both Dubai clubs.
“Edgar Bruno moves from Al Wasl to Adanaspor,” his soon-to-be former employers tweeted.
The move is expected to be officially pushed through Sunday.
The giant target man’s face never fitted at Zabeel Stadium. His ungainly style and the fact he had come off a poor final season at Shabab – the side he joined in July 2012 from Portugal’s Vitoria Guimaes – meant supporters rallied against his presence.
A 3-0 thrashing at Al Ain on January 23 provided a breaking point, club management pushing through the recruitment of awful playmaker Rogerinho at the end of the winter transfer window.
This left him with no time to find a new team, meaning he sat out the second half of 2015/16.
