Popular Post Rightdm00 Posted October 30, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 30, 2023 6 hours ago, Stevo985 said: Day by day history gets rewritten on VT more and more I love Diaby but this is madness Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. This season Diaby will have more G+A than Jack's best PL season. He will do that his first year in with Vila. Diaby will then, baring injury, go on to produce at that level or beyond for multiple seasons. No getting pissed on vacation, or hitting multiple stationary vehicles. Diaby will do all this while being compensated at a fraction of Jack's current wage packet. Jack was great, and we all loved him, but I honestly believe we have moved on and found something much better. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 1 hour ago, Tommo_b said: I mean…. He’s still a quality player, bit silly to say wouldn’t have him back. Where you play him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted October 30, 2023 Moderator Share Posted October 30, 2023 Wise choice by City not selection him as one of the players to represent them at the Ballon D'Or - he'd be pissed for a week after a night out in Paris. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post luckyeddie Posted October 30, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 30, 2023 9 hours ago, Philosopher said: Well we'll have to agree to disagree, as far as I'm concerned there are very few coaches in the world that would turn their nose up at Grealish. Their isn't one player in our current squad that had done what Jack has, achieved what he has, and maybe only 2 or 3 that are near his talent level. Not one manager has claimed he is bad for morale or a poor trainer, in fact they all say the opposite. Martinez has a WC winners medal and was a major reason for them winning, that tops anything JG will ever achieve in his career. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Didnt get a sniff of the Ballon Dor nominations for a 100 million pound player whose team won the treble is pretty poor Wasnt that one of the reasons he left to be a world star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted October 30, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted October 30, 2023 3 hours ago, Rightdm00 said: Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. This season Diaby will have more G+A than Jack's best PL season. He will do that his first year in with Vila. Diaby will then, baring injury, go on to produce at that level or beyond for multiple seasons. No getting pissed on vacation, or hitting multiple stationary vehicles. Diaby will do all this while being compensated at a fraction of Jack's current wage packet. Jack was great, and we all loved him, but I honestly believe we have moved on and found something much better. Mental 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 21 hours ago, Rightdm00 said: Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. This season Diaby will have more G+A than Jack's best PL season. He will do that his first year in with Vila. Diaby will then, baring injury, go on to produce at that level or beyond for multiple seasons. No getting pissed on vacation, or hitting multiple stationary vehicles. Diaby will do all this while being compensated at a fraction of Jack's current wage packet. Jack was great, and we all loved him, but I honestly believe we have moved on and found something much better. And when Diaby is substituted he doesn't sulk and undermine the manager. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancvillan Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 To be fair to Jack he was a great player in a much worse team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 4 hours ago, Kuwabatake Sanjuro said: And when Diaby is substituted he doesn't sulk and undermine the manager. Grealish vs Newcastle was embarrassing. Was probably our most comfortable win that season 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheStagMan Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 On 30/10/2023 at 23:56, Stevo985 said: Mental Mental as in you disagree, or mental that Diaby will likely do so much better for us than Jack did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted November 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2023 6 hours ago, TheStagMan said: Mental as in you disagree, or mental that Diaby will likely do so much better for us than Jack did? I disagree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 I really don’t get the hatred from some for Grealish. Yes his departure wasn’t handled in the best way, but it has undoubtedly helped us get to this point. He helped drag us into the PL 4 years ago, and was one of the main reasons that we stayed in it the following year. From a financial perspective the £100m of pure profit we brought in has helped build a squad that is now in 5th under a world class manager. We had to sell the likes of Archer, Ramsey and Philogene for FFP reasons, and that is even with selling Grealish. But we’ve also been able to in the likes of Bailey, Buendia, Digne, Moreno, Kamara, Diaby and Torres since then, as well as Emery, and it’s impossible to say that we would have been better off not selling Grealish. This is the best we’ve had things at our club in nearly 30 years and everything that has happened since NSWE has got us here, regardless of whether or not it was painful at the time. Except bringing in Gerrard as manager. That arrogant scouse arsehole deserves everyone’s vitriol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted November 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2023 2 minutes ago, jacketspuds said: I really don’t get the hatred from some for Grealish. Yes his departure wasn’t handled in the best way, but it has undoubtedly helped us get to this point. He helped drag us into the PL 4 years ago, and was one of the main reasons that we stayed in it the following year. From a financial perspective the £100m of pure profit we brought in has helped build a squad that is now in 5th under a world class manager. We had to sell the likes of Archer, Ramsey and Philogene for FFP reasons, and that is even with selling Grealish. But we’ve also been able to in the likes of Bailey, Buendia, Digne, Moreno, Kamara, Diaby and Torres since then, as well as Emery, and it’s impossible to say that we would have been better off not selling Grealish. This is the best we’ve had things at our club in nearly 30 years and everything that has happened since NSWE has got us here, regardless of whether or not it was painful at the time. Except bringing in Gerrard as manager. That arrogant scouse arsehole deserves everyone’s vitriol. it's like a bad break up with a girlfriend. it hurts for a while but then you meet someone else that makes you just as happy and you forget all about your ex. like all bad break ups, some people remain bitter for longer. i hated him for a while, but kinda over it now. i get that there are many that are still pissed about it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted November 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2023 8 minutes ago, tomav84 said: it's like a bad break up with a girlfriend. it hurts for a while but then you meet someone else that makes you just as happy and you forget all about your ex. like all bad break ups, some people remain bitter for longer. i hated him for a while, but kinda over it now. i get that there are many that are still pissed about it Not only that, British people are also still pissed off about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 Unai is a smart man, he'd definitely turn down a 100m player if he got on the blower and said he wants to come back home. He knows you can only have one really good attacking player in football. That's just common sense. 2 really good attacking players? That's insane Jeremy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted November 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2023 @rjw63 Americans get pissed about things British people get pissed off about things Let this slip and we'll be describing Autumn as Fall before you know it. These Americanisms piss me off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 3 hours ago, jacketspuds said: I really don’t get the hatred from some for Grealish. Yes his departure wasn’t handled in the best way, but it has undoubtedly helped us get to this point. He helped drag us into the PL 4 years ago, and was one of the main reasons that we stayed in it the following year. From a financial perspective the £100m of pure profit we brought in has helped build a squad that is now in 5th under a world class manager. We had to sell the likes of Archer, Ramsey and Philogene for FFP reasons, and that is even with selling Grealish. But we’ve also been able to in the likes of Bailey, Buendia, Digne, Moreno, Kamara, Diaby and Torres since then, as well as Emery, and it’s impossible to say that we would have been better off not selling Grealish. This is the best we’ve had things at our club in nearly 30 years and everything that has happened since NSWE has got us here, regardless of whether or not it was painful at the time. Except bringing in Gerrard as manager. That arrogant scouse arsehole deserves everyone’s vitriol. I suppose when it came out that he was trying to leave the previous summers it soured a lot of people more. Plus his egotistical clearing in the woods Dad telling people he will come back later to help us as if we are a charity case Plus he then went and dived vs us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 1 hour ago, rodders0223 said: Unai is a smart man, he'd definitely turn down a 100m player if he got on the blower and said he wants to come back home. He knows you can only have one really good attacking player in football. That's just common sense. 2 really good attacking players? That's insane Jeremy. he sent Coutinho to Qatar quick enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono62 Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 7 minutes ago, sidcow said: @rjw63 Americans get pissed about things British people get pissed off about things Let this slip and we'll be describing Autumn as Fall before you know it. These Americanisms piss me off I could care less about this. Sorry, that hurt writing that. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 On 30/10/2023 at 23:29, Zatman said: Didnt get a sniff of the Ballon Dor nominations for a 100 million pound player whose team won the treble is pretty poor Wasnt that one of the reasons he left to be a world star Nope, it was to make a shit ton of money and to win trophies. He's done both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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