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I don't think he handles contracts.
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The RJW63 Official Jack Grealish Appreciation Thread
lexicon replied to kevangrealish's topic in Other Football
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None of the front three who started shone. I think they were just all too similar really, gave us only one dimension and they didn't really know what to do with themselves. Not going to judge him for a while.
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He's OK. Can't say I'm fussed either way about the contract renewal.
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Traore AND Keita? Wat?
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We could do better in every position in the side, doesn't mean that we don't have decent players already. We're not going to outgrow Guzan any time soon.
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I think taking the Bournemouth game as an example is a but of a false impression - they're a championship team still, more or less. Friday against United will tell us a lot more; hopefully they'll do well.
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A perennial 6.5 player.
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It's as if he should be getting ten assists a season or something. Boggles the mind.
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People have been carping on about it for a while though, certainly before the Bournemouth game.
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This game will be much more of a test than Championship level Bournemouth and their strikers. IMO Richards should be told to man-mark Rooney, so he has a focus - I really hope he doesn't make any silly runs up the pitch either. Poor positioning will be punished against Man U.
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We should be planning our tactics for this game around Gestede - we need him on and bullying their CBs as much as possible.
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I think some of you are blowing two things completely out of proportion: 1) How important distribution from a keeper is 2) How bad Guzan supposedly is at it To put it into perspective, look at the passing success rate of various keepers in the league: Courtois - 37.5% Mignolet - 51.9% Romero - 52.8% Hart - 60% Adrian - 47.5% Guzan? 50% - so plum average.
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What am I making up? Sherwood said those things, I said that they MIGHT indicate something. Get your facts right ffs.
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I don't think it's crucial, no. I like having academy players coming through but it doesn't really matter where they're from in the grand scheme of things. You may incur some wrath for disagreeing with Sherwood, though, which seems to be the case at the moment.
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That's because you added your own words there - 'expensive', 'overrated' and 'shit'.
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He's cover for tiredness and injuries. While he won't offer impact, he'll offer fresh legs and a reasonable degree of competency in a variety of positions.
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It wasn't unfounded - he said: “Having English players (in the team) is crucial because we’re playing in a British league,” he said. “That core of players is unbelievably important. “I would say, if anyone was to become available now, they probably would be coming from the English market. “No-one’s given an opportunity to English players more than me. Then I used some words like 'might have' and 'may have', which indicate a lack of certainty.
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You might then argue YLN, that Gabby was one of the reasons that team was bad.
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Or more like if we didn't have a good scouting set-up in place, which probably brought a few players to his attention, he may have gone with the players he knows and trusts. Whatever, it's totally immaterial now anyway. The fact is Sherwood is our manager and there are lots of things to be positive about but there are a few criticisms there too. You aren't going to get loyal points on your Sherwood card by defending his honour at every turn and it makes your posts look unreasonable.
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Makes me think that if Sherwood were left to his own devices, he may not have signed the players we did and might have gone the 'Arry/MON route.
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We literally didn't have anyone else. So I'm not entirely sure what he could have done? Also very early days, good to get Ayew minutes and to be fair, hard for Sherwood to really know what he has until watching them in a competitive match. Thought Gabby was good second half seeing more if the ball. Have been generally impressed with him since Sherwood came in, think he has earned his place. Yes we did, we had Kozak. Ah yes. So you think he was the answer? He may well have been but he didn't play, so we don't know. The point is, we had the option.
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We literally didn't have anyone else. So I'm not entirely sure what he could have done? Also very early days, good to get Ayew minutes and to be fair, hard for Sherwood to really know what he has until watching them in a competitive match. Thought Gabby was good second half seeing more if the ball. Have been generally impressed with him since Sherwood came in, think he has earned his place. Yes we did, we had Kozak.
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I don't really blame him or the front 3 in the first half - they were all way too similar and it wasn't a good move by Sherwood to start them. We'll struggle massively to score goals if they all start regularly for us.
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Playing him against United would be utterly mad. I don't expect Sherwood to - I think Hutton'll go there.
