Re: Jack Grealish
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 3:31 pm
I bet loads on here will be "jacking" off if he signs. LOLZ.
You can at 250 grand a week!blueToffee wrote: ↑Sun Aug 10, 2025 4:04 pm Glad if this is what we want we’re pushing to get it done this week.
Can’t leave everything until the end of the window.
It would be a real pain, for opposition defences but I hope they won't be standing on each other's toes. KDH also seems to operate in the left half space toonso it could get crowded in there.kramer wrote: ↑Sun Aug 10, 2025 12:20 pm Said it too many times now but I think we could inflict some real misery on the rest of the league with Grealish and Ndiaye. Couple of horrible players to dispossess.
It’s not a best practice for building a team, you can’t chuck money away like this every summer and expect good long-term outcomes. But you can definitely do it once to give an exhausted fanbase a chance to appreciate a player who is from another planet in terms of quality, especially when that player isn’t a diva and works hard for the team.
If we turn around after this and throw a whole bunch of money at someone like McGinn, it might be time to feel some serious concern about the approach because that’s a lot of dead money spent. But most of the other rumors swirling around are young talents (Dibling, Lopy) and cheap squad fillers (Justin).
I would also say forget Brighton and Brentford as comps. Those owners are from the betting world and are quantitative by nature. I expect our way forward is more like Villa, buying up all the best young players we can get our hands on and occasionally augmenting with older quality.
Another footnote. With the exception of Aznou, who is mostly too young to say, the players we’ve added have been legitimately good statistically in recent seasons. This already puts them in contrast to players like Sigurdsson, who profiled as deeply mediocre at everything an attacking kid does besides free kicks and then delivered on that promise.
It's only nailed on if it's Bobble or Ornstein these days. McNulty and the BBC in general are always late to the party as they need everything confirmed via separate sources before they take the plunge, and Fabrizio has disappeared up the arse of agents so can't really be trusted.sam of the south wrote: ↑Sun Aug 10, 2025 4:03 pm Isn’t he the tribal football guy?
What itk’s do we trust these days?
Even McNulty (the fuck did I do?) seems to miss a few times recently.
Bobble seems to have slipped lately.Trowel wrote: ↑Sun Aug 10, 2025 6:31 pm It's only nailed on if it's Bobble or Ornstein these days. McNulty and the BBC in general are always late to the party as they need everything confirmed via separate sources before they take the plunge, and Fabrizio has disappeared up the arse of agents so can't really be trusted.
But the transfer window would be pretty dull if we played it safe and ignored all gossip!