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We're not going to sell him. I'd rather we used and developed a player we invested a lot of money in than a player on the decline who's struggled to get over an injury and hasn't played 30+ PL games in a season since before Covid.
If it's a choice of signing Grealish at the expense of Dibling id rather not get him. Grealish isn't going to be the difference between us winning the league, he won't even get us near the champions league spots. Our wide options are ok now, so invest what little we have elsewhere
brap2 wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2026 4:23 pm
Hope he stays, hope he plays but
Grealish Ndiaye
George Johnson
Will be Moyes starting and back up wide men and he doesn’t rotate enough to justify a fifth player who needs 1000+ minutes to develop.
Won’t be playing 10 or cm either.
Think it points to him going late on.
It’s possible he may go out on loan…but I’m a little doubtful by the end of the window both Grealish and Ndiaye are here.
Ndiaye has seemingly ruled out the Saudi league, but I think he considers himself very much in the shop window and you can’t rule out the Johnson move as a precursor to letting him go.
On Grealish too if he’s still not recovered we may even wait until January..? Lots of unknowns right now.
Gash wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2026 5:02 pm
We're not going to sell him. I'd rather we used and developed a player we invested a lot of money in than a player on the decline who's struggled to get over an injury and hasn't played 30+ PL games in a season since before Covid.
The other thing about him going out on loan is the homesickness issue.
He struggled when he went 50 miles from Southampton to London, so it was always a gamble coming here, let alone now loaning him out to Schalke 04 or something.
That overheard WhatsApp chat said on loan to Germany, didn’t it? I’d be bloody surprised if it happened and if it does, it could easily end badly.
brap2 wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2026 4:23 pm
Hope he stays, hope he plays but
Grealish Ndiaye
George Johnson
Will be Moyes starting and back up wide men and he doesn’t rotate enough to justify a fifth player who needs 1000+ minutes to develop.
Won’t be playing 10 or cm either.
Think it points to him going late on.
I think you are right. Signing Johnson on 100-110K a week forces Moyes to play him a lot and he will be patient with him even if he fails to deliver.
That's not the case with Dibling. I do not think Moyes rates him at all. My guess is that Grealish is not coming in as we signed Johnson, but even without Grealish I think Moyes will play Johnson, George and even Armstrong and Rohl on the right wing before trusting Dibling.
He needs to be sold or loaned out for us to not completely destroy his resale value.
Really no point in him being here this season if he doesn’t start tomorrow.
If he can’t get a game at home in the cup this early in the season we need to protect the asset by giving him game time elsewhere to learn his trade and see what he can do