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Mate, my blues mate is giving me so much grief it’s unreal lol. Proper embarrassing video lol

Ok, must admit didn’t think this was likely, but it looks like it’s gonna happen. If the contract is right, and considering it’ll likely be a 1 year deal (maybe an option of one more) and allow one of our youngsters to develop, then it’s a good move. And like someone said before, it’s not like we can drop £20m plus in every position

Maybe we should change targets and go for madders instead.

The independent called this several weeks ago to be fair.

And I thought I'd do one for next week too

I just watched some YouTube video from the athletic, and it seems it IS WhatsApp groups

This is official £multimillion business. it’s not some WhatsApp group. ’we’ll give you £45m for smith-rowe’ ’ok’ ’oh sorry, fat fingers. I meant £4m. We still good?’ You draw up an offer, via your legal team. And you send it across, in writing, and you await a formal response. Otherwise people would just be testing the water everywhere. I think that’s the difference between having a ‘bid rejected’, and ‘have made enquiries’

This guy can play

How would a rejected bid be agent talk?? Agent: ‘we want more money, villa bid for him you know.’ Arsenal board: ‘Err, no they really haven’t. And we should know.’

GET THIS DONE

Agreed.

Sterling 10 goals and 7 assists in 31 matches. Goals/Assit per 90 played: 0.60 Grealish 6 goals and 10 assists in 26 matches. Goals/Assist per 90 played: 0.66 Yh, I'm sure Jack would kill to have worse goals/assists stats. * Not by much, but I'm just pointing out that this is disinformation.

I’m obviously pulling these figures out of thin air. I have no inside information. I sensationalised them to make a point. Just like you are now pulling figures out of thin air to make your argument. Or did you just DM him on Twitter and ask him what he would want? And If you look at my previous post, I already said that if it’s a free, and for around £20k a week, then yes. So even £25k or £30k Id be fine with.

Dude, go back and read what I wrote. I said he won the game, the player he picked ahead of Grealish scored the goal, and is a pretty fine player himself. I said he HAD an issue with him, but it’s in the past. I said that he was going to bring him on when he thought he might change the game. I said that maybe he’s trying to protect his injury. You picked up on a post that was an answer to a post of him never having a problem, and ran with it laced with uneccesary sarcasm. I responded to a post about him not being hard working to say he WAS hard working. I said that picking the team was his prerogative. You’ve picked up on a post and acted quite frankly out of order with your tone. Goodnight.

What are you actually talking about? I said he had an issue with Grealish. The specific issue was he didn’t want to pick him. I never said why he didn’t want to pick him, just that he didn’t want to pick him. You gave a reason why he didn’t want to pick him. You made it sound like I was stupid for not understanding that by repeatedly using a bolded word ‘shocker’ like somehow you were enlightening me with your immense knowledge - but actually just confirmed what I said. That he didn’t want to pick him, made up shit excuses, got called out for it, it’s in the past, he seems to appreciate him more now, and is happy to play him. Wheres the SHOCKER in all of that? You’re out? After making a pointless and irrelevant post like that? Havent got a clue what you’re even arguing against. Hilarious. How come I didn’t answer your pint about deano doing what? Utterly pointless point about nothing. That’s why I ignored it. Deano has no problem with Jack at all. I don’t like dogs (that’s just an irrelevant comment that if you ignore I’ll ask why u ignored it)

So what you’re saying is that he DID have an issue with Jack? And that issue was that he didn’t like being told that he needed to play him? You’re agreeing with my point SHOCKER

Arsenal wanted Buendia. Bring it on.

That's what I was saying. Maybe that's why he played him for 90 minutes. Maybe he got his shin problem AFTER that game, and that's why he didn't start. Maybe he's keeping him fresh for when he really needs him. We don't know.

Firstly I posted those stats in response to someone suggesting that he might have been left out because he wasn't hard working enough. Secondly his tackles and interceptions are 100% more than Rashford, and 25% more than the next closest which is Sancho. This is a HUGE difference Thirdly these stats are influenced hugely by how a team plays. Like City etc? Then how come Fodens stats are even more impressive than Grealish? The team that has the most possession of all of them? There goes your theory. You GET possession by winning the ball back, and that starts from the front. Fourthly; no one gives a shit about effort in training. That was what the other fella was talking about asking me if I worked at St Georges. It's about how much effort you put in a competitive game.

That's exactly the point though. The Serie A winner isn't going to come to us unless: a) He is promised a starting role in what is likely his last year of top level football or b) He is getting paid a shed-load of money to spend what is likely the last year of his football career warming our bench. And it's not going to be A. He can go to West Ham or Newcastle. I sincerely hope that we would spend that money on a young upcoming left back that is willing to push Targett for a first team spot. We bought Konsa for £12m. Palace probably spent that much on Cahill for 2 years. We need to get over this whole giving contracts to dead end situations. There will be plenty of other more sustainable options out there.

If the 'right terms' were 20k a week and for free, and a 1 year deal, then yh ok. But htey're not going to be that. It'll be £5m for him £5m for his agent £5m signing on fee, to sit on the bench. No thank you.

What utter bollocks is this? No thank you, and not likely either.

Because....? And it's not highly edited. That's exactly what he said. Let me ask you, have you ever seen anything like that before? Ever? A reporter asks about a player, and you ignore that player completely and talk about someone else? Not ONCE, but TWICE in the same interview? He compared Kane to Shearer in 2017. Last year he gave his thoughts on what he thought about people comparing Grealish to Gascoigne. He said he doesn't think it is helpful to compare young players to some of the past greats. Then went on to list about 5/6 other players that were "obviously" better than Jack, and basically suggested it was his own fans that were making the comparison. He was recently asked if he thought Bellingham was like Rio Ferdinand. Did he list a bunch of players that were "obviously" better than Jude? Did he say it wasn't helpful to compare to the past great players? No. He said exactly what he should have said, and what he should've said when asked about Jack - That these are the kinds of players that he should be trying to emulate etc etc. and gave encouragement to the player - not try to knock him down by saying "oh not a chance.". [Although admittedly, a rather bizarre comparison question in the first place of Ferdinand and Bellingham] Now I don't give two hoots about this anymore, but to call it silly to believe that he treated Jack differently from the rest of the players is just, well... silly. Like I said previously, I think he's over it now, and is starting to appreciate jack for his attributes. - but at that time, he made a monumental tit out of himself. None of the above is bitterness of him not being picked. I've already stated that Sterling is a very good player, and we won, and he scored, and that's absolutely fine. And Jack is carrying a shin injury. This is just in response to those who believe that Southgate never had an issue with Jack. He's picked him in the squad despite his covid rule breaking issues, and crashing his car, and now even though he's not fully fit. He was all set to bring him on. I really think he's over it, and is now picking his team on what he believes to be right. Which is his prerogative.

No, but the statisticians do... And pay particular attention to the number of tackles and pressures in the defensive 3rd. And if you didn't see Southgate's post match interviews when he was ignoring questions about Grealish, and double standards regarding never having played in the premier league (even though he HAD and Phillips HADN'T), then you better go watch them. Lucky for me, you didn't add Foden to that little list of yours, I hadn't realised how much work off the ball he does. He's quite the player.