Annoyman

Tbf it was the Rock who turned heel over chants Don't think we've had "die Jackie die" yet thankfully, but if we ever do you can bet your monkey ass that the Jack will NEVER forget that

It's swung back and forth a lot but people who post here who have no reason to lie have said they've heard from close sources he's going, and the City writers and ITKs that have predicted movement soon do not appear to be as non-credible as some posters have wishfully projected them to be, so it's kind of reading between the lines (and the silence) a bit

The overwhelming majority of outward-facing public communication by any club or player is vacuous PR bullshit that was expedient at the time it was put out

I can't even imagine how much of a knob I'd be if I was in Jack Grealish's shoes. Crashing into parked cars and demanding more money every five minutes would only be the start of it

Yeah I'm ready for it to be done either way now, but suggestions seem to be that this week or next week are likely

I think his agent said at the end of last season "there are clubs interested so well see what happens, but it's also possible he could stay at Villa." so it makes sense that he's been shuttling back and forth between the two planting "deal nearly done" and "Grealish having second thoughts and expected to sign new contract" as appropriate to play the percentages and make sure both sides are offering as much as they possibly can

I also think Grealish will get a certain amount of undying hatred from the more bunny-boiler end of our support if he ever leaves Villa under any circumstances. Social media posts which were overwhelmingly likely to have not been made directly by him, or which would just be part of the usual churn of content being handled as business as usual until a deal is actually announced, are not going to be a coded sign that he is or isn't staying. If he goes and people have bought shirts or happily decided he was staying based on Instagram posts the club are just going to say "what were we going to do, tip out hand and scrub him out of everything before we knew a deal was definitely done just so people didn't get upset?"

He didn't have to sign the deal last summer at all and it was a little surprising that he did, so he held the cards and would potentially have had control over the release clause People don't seem to be able to produce the exact quote about "no release clauses" to verify that it was after the new contract, and even if it was it doesn't necessarily mean it was true

Christ, he must be walking round with his balls in a wheelbarrow at the moment. Hope the coaches can get him back into a mobile state before opening day

Dunno why so many people were clutching their pearls over the Sweden red card vs Ukraine that was basically an unfortunate collision after a clearance then

Martinez all screaming "YOU'RE NERVOUS. YEAH, YOU'RE NERVOUS. I'M EATING YOU UP BROTHER" at his dinner

That guy has a long history of being one of the biggest clowns going

Imagine going from nervelessly taking, in a European final shootout, a penalty that was so good it destroyed the goal camera to this in two days

Bit harsh on Raheem given that winning a penalty (which was initially missed anyway) and forcing a defender to make a clearance which results in an own goal don't teeeeechnically count as assists but had the same effect

Say what you want about the substitution on paper, England absolutely suffocated the game at the end, only momentarily looking mildly threatened when Pickford turned an off-target shot from range around the post to be on the safe side As much of a human wet fart as he is, is there any sensible metric by which Southgate isn't the most successful England manager for like 50+ years?

LMAO at the expert guy they quote trying to shoehorn in discussion about Jordan Pickford having nice hair too Pickford with a big boy haircut isn't fooling anyone

Soon the "so many Francesco Totti's in London!!" tweet will be lost, like tears in the rain And probably, in the process, interpreted as a sign of an ominous souring of the relationship between Grealish and the Roma legend by a malnourished teen working the goal.com content mine

Where does that GIF of Gareth Barry smiling originally come from

The comments were meaningless, he was put on the spot by an Italian journalist who didn't understand that his previous twitter reference to Totti was cockney rhyming slang for "hottie" and said the only thing he could think of that was noteworthy about him

He's being sarcastic that the fee is too low and the replies are either saying things like 15 mil must be a 25% downpayment, or rueful stuff like "in the current Argentinian economy you can't turn down 15 mil" I think

Feel like the end point of this is him signing a new contract and a load of confused American Arsenal fans lording it over Villa as if it's a major victory

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