Jack Grealish

[Cods]

One day, it’ll click mate.

You’ll realise this isn’t a club that makes good decisions.

And one day you might see the forest for the trees.

Have a look around at all the other clubs that we've been around over the last 40 years and look at all of their 'good' decisions.

Even the ones that are no longer in this league, those who have been in real financial distress and decades in the wilderness (we're playing one tonight).

A couple of clever minnows and ones bankrolled by multi billionaires with huge revenues that cant fail (ignoring Spurs and Man Utd) are who we're up against. Financial powerhouses we might have been once, but no longer.

[sam of the south]

Edit: Oh. Just seen that I’m very late to the party.

Unlike Jack eh, amirite

[74Blue]

Yep we've sometimes taken risks with amazingly talented but sometimes troubled individuals- but thats how the club is set up to some extent, others take risk blooding potential, which is also a risk.

Neither we paid initial transfer fees for by the way, so overall cost versus output is not that different to others who we've dumped large transfer fees upon.

We paid a loan fee for Grealish last season, so not exactly a cheap risk.

[Cods]

We paid a loan fee for Grealish last season, so not exactly a cheap risk.

Yep wages and a loan fee...

We wanted instant results (which we got until his injury)

We needed the eyeballs, as he's a marketing dream, and we needed a ball magnet leader sublime talent that the younger players could learn from and could raise our ball-playing quality dramatically.

He raised the bar, and we weren't the only ones interested, others would've had him if they could.

Quality still comes with a cost, even if it was wages and loan fee rather than a hefty transfer fee.

We got him a little cheaper than an (England's first ever) 100m player though.

[Audrey Horne]

You recon statements and videos as he comes back to the squad? or quiet under the radar?

[Free Agent]

I’m sure they’ll release a training video with him scoring belters or something over the next couple of weeks.

[Bumble]

There’s no doubt we do need him back in the squad.

We can’t go through the rest of the season with George, Dibling and Johnson as our wide options.

However he shouldn’t be an automatic starter every week. We’ve moved past that now.

[MayorFarnham]

As a loan player, every week he's unavailable is costing us much needed money.

[Cods]

You recon statements and videos as he comes back to the squad? or quiet under the radar?

Quietly I reckon, but then a fortnight before the next game is a long time in football. It'll be forgotten quickly unless it happens again.

[sam of the south]

There’s no doubt we do need him back in the squad.

We can’t go through the rest of the season with George, Dibling and Johnson as our wide options.

However he shouldn’t be an automatic starter every week. We’ve moved past that now.

Yeah this is where I’m at.

I’d like Dibling and George to keep playing, to build up their confidence. And, all things considered, it’s unlikely Grealish will be here in a years time.

[Matt1878]

With the recent results he's become a bit of a 'nice to have', which is actually where you want to be as a team, given where he is in his career. Same with Nørgaard.

Fair play to the kids, deserve credit for how they have got on with it.

[Silas]

Think leaving him on the bench would be the statement to make. Says something to George and Dibling if he comes straight back in after the break

[TheRam]

Comes back in, has a few weeks before he’s out again.

We try to terminate in January.

Moyes has been here many times before and he’ll know we’ve reached the point of no return with him.

[blueToffee]

I’m sure there will be one or two squad training videos with him in the mix, because social media always has to do something.

Then my guess would be he starts next game on the bench, Moyes brings him on after 60 mins or so. Starts every game after that.

[Juanito]

Yep we've sometimes taken risks with amazingly talented but sometimes troubled individuals- but thats how the club is set up to some extent, others take risk blooding potential, which is also a risk.

Neither we paid initial transfer fees for by the way, so overall cost versus output is not that different to others who we've dumped large transfer fees upon.

Well, not technically but £12 million loan fee last season for very little, £12 million this season and £300k a week ? Clubs like Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford sign assets for £24 million on a fifth of that wage and sell them for triple.

This is a Morishi signing