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Just a quick note on Grealish and his new superstar status, marketing potential and overall club growth. Noticed in away games (before lockdown) Burnley and Brighton away there were home kids with cards asking for his shirt. I live in Leicester, I was in nearby Wigston yesterday evening in a local park. The kids were pretending to be Grealish, not Vardy or Maddison. Im occasionally charitable and have a friend in our friendship group who is a massive blues fan, SOTV and all that. His kid (9) wants a Grealish England kit. The guys a superstar, and if we can keep hold of him he will do more to grow the clubs visibility than any player we've had before.

Wood, Tammy etc will never happen because neither player will come to us to sit on the bench. We have Watkins, who scores plenty, barely gets injured and perfectly suits our style of play. If not, we have a 25 million pound Brazil International to prove himself fit in pre season.

Yep. Despite the Bellingham money (a one off), they were still that desperate to raise just £10m, what happens when they run out of cash again?

Wolves were a mid table nothing championship team. Mendes managed to get them the likes of Neves, Boly, Jota to get them out championship, an enticing opportunity. If you offered wolves fans that ultimatum 4 years ago they'd accept. Fosun are an investment portfolio. They could not care less about the club or the players. As a result they will now break even, by selling a Mendes player for huge money each season and buy a young Mendes player for Premier league exposure (whilst he lines his pockets) . The clubs value will grow thus proving a ROI for their investors. Although our owners are fantastic, they aren't just going to spend 1b on players, and are already pouring finances into the youth system to make us sustainable. We will probably start doing the same but at a much higher level. Sell a star player occasionally if a crazy offer comes in, supplement with youth players and excellent recruitment.

As much as there's banter, I genuinely hope it was a way to get cash into the club and nothing more sinister. But the business that owns the ground now has no affiliation to the current owners. There's nothing in 10 years stopping them turning it into flats.

Mentioned on the Wolves thread. Benfica, Sporting etc all wanted the transfer investigating. He was worth nowhere near that. Porto were in covid financial trouble. Mendes got Silva signed for a grossly inflated fee (and pocketed about 6 million as well). Thats the wrong side of having an agent involved in transfers.

Confirmed to the Hong Kong stock exchange their stadium is sold to a completely separate entity. Sold for 10.78 million rent 1.25 million over 10 years. In short they’ve given their stadium away. Their short term cash flow must be critical. Birmingham mail

I could imagine him doing "the worm" up to the ball and heading it in.

CAM: Ramsey, Carney RW: Bidace Absolutely no point in our youth academy if these kids aren't given a chance.

Awful for Watkins but works in our favour. After a condensed season and the Euros immediately after, having a fully rested Watkins can only be a good thing for us next season. OT but I worry how many games Jack will play next year.

Sheffield Weds went for it with Bruce and an expensive team the season we went up. Same as Derby with an expensive team and 3 premier league loanees. Tony Xia did exactly the same thing, literally mortgaged the lot to try and get up. We are so so fortunate NSWE came in to save us, otherwise would be where they are now.

Good move for them. Clearly the owners are now on a sustainability mission. With Mendes they'll steal all the best young Portuguese talent, develop in the PL and inevitably sell to a "top 6" club.

Unless we win it Southgate will get slaughtered regardless. Captain hindsights will come out.. If he plays Grealish and we lose he will get battered for not playing Foden, Sancho etc. If he plays walker, he will get battered for not picking James.

With the amount of free kicks jack wins, JWP would be in double figures just on free kick goals. it's a massive stretch. He's "one of their own" and will see us as their competition for "best of the rest". As with VVD they'd hold us for at least 60m. Just not going to happen imo.

Surely the chances of surviving are better with Buendia than without. The 40 million they receive is nothing compared the PL status. I genuinely cant fathom why they're selling him.

Impossible. Every small heath fan lives within a 2.3 mile radius of New Street.

It shows that these talents are being produced in and around the Birmingham area. With rh our schools link up, inner city academy, actual route to the first team, hopefully we can be the team that brings these kids though.

I read it was just a straight choice. Both enacted the clause and could offer the wages. At that point Newcastle looked a more stable proposition than us. They were mid table, we barely survived.

We've shown we are a club in the up, Arsenal are on the way down. We enhance players ability and international opportunities. With the exception of a few Arsenal is now a burial ground for formerly good reputations. I don't think we will sign him because if Arsenal's wage structure. They have mediocre players on 160k a week. We would never ever offer him that (Grealish territory).

Reality has called. Grealish is 25 and already breaks down each season. Whilst players can certainly go on longer their maximum ability tends to be around 27-31.

Worth noting that Everton have spent 100s of millions, have a ridiculously high wage bill and it hasn't got them far. Building a team is hopefully the way forward.

6-25 is the majority of his life but thats semantics. Next summer he will nearly be 27, so yes he will be near full potential and have 3 years at the top top level. Thats my opinion. Doesn't make me less of a Villa fan because I have it.

Season ticket for 16 years. Went to every away game in the promotion season. But of course, because I think a player whose given his life to this club should move upwards if we don't, I'm clearly a man city fan. I think that has what's kept him here so far, which is great. I also hope you are right. I do genuinely believe, when he's getting to 27/28 if we aren't at that level I believe he will go.

Unless we have a crazy good season, Jack should go next year. Probably with the blessing of the club and the majority of the fan base for a fair amount. He should be playing in Champions league finals, not in the European conference league (which is probably our aim next year) .

Been saying on Twitter there's problems with the telephone system and very high demand.