Confirmed Signing Jack Grealish

[BainesontoastNEW]

It's time like this I wish my hair was long enough for an Alice band.

 

[mikel_88]

Get him in sharpish, get him training by midweek and then let him loose against Leeds. They won’t be wanting this move to happen anytime soon you can be sure of that.

Think he will be fit not for the whole game but see it that he has a point to make here. Show that he has still got it and by the reaction of ndiaye bits of magic and skill. Grealish will get the same been needing something like this after the few years we have had, i am really hopefull he can come in and help us kick on

 

[PhilEFC]

It's time like this I wish my hair was long enough for an Alice band.

I wish I just had some hair.

 

[neil999]

Does it actually work like this though? Take Dibling for instance, we already know he wants to join us without Grealish. The sticking point isn’t the player, it’s the price. Are we talking about someone like McAtee who might be Grealish’s mate?

No idea mate, just made it up in my head...sounds good to me, id want to play with Grealish

 

[Frenk]

Him and Dibling would make for a pretty good window overall, with more likely to follow.

 

[Bob Latchford]

I wish I just had some hair.

Was just about to say I wish I had enough to run a comb through it…

 

[danny=)]

great goals


great human

 

[Librarian]

What goes on in these discussions?

They must break for lunch and pastries every 5 minutes.

 

[BackRow PE6]

I hope it happens. But realistically we shouldn't be focused on him.

I do believe if we had one hand doing the transfer business at this club we'd have had 3-4 at last more in by now...that's IF there is cash to spend, like.

I’ll be glad to see the £1.20 price hike for a pint of Guinness being used in this way. Might even make me drink more of the stuff

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

250K a week

Not sure how I feel about that to be honest

Obviously happy to have him because he can play, but how much of an effect is that going to have on us signing other players?

 

[Lob]

Does it actually work like this though? Take Dibling for instance, we already know he wants to join us without Grealish. The sticking point isn’t the player, it’s the price. Are we talking about someone like McAtee who might be Grealish’s mate?

It does in the sense that it shows good players are coming to the club so there must be something good about it. Negates the relegation fodder perspective a bit and promotes the club with a project that is moving them forward.

 

[bluestevon]

I like Grealish but there's a cash + time element to this that's off-putting.

Great if they got him in after we secure 3 more quality attacking players plus a RB, but if Grealish talks are holding that up and putting pressure on cash reserves for elsewhere that's just a barmy waste.

250k per week works out for the full season given say he arrives 11th August as 11.5m total paid.

Signing say a 28-29yo on a three year deal for 20m on 75k per week would cost us per season 10.8m per season with little to no real resale after and that's ignoring any signing on and agent fees which likely would see the cost pushed up to around the 11.5m mark.

Difference being if Grealish is a success we can do a similar deal next season with city, if he isn't we walk away now lasting residual costs carrying over, on the signed player you are paying that 11m for next and the one after also.

 

[MikeH72]

It does in the sense that it shows good players are coming to the club so there must be something good about it. Negates the relegation fodder perspective a bit and promotes the club with a project that is moving them forward.

Yeah I do get this. Perception is half our battle at the minute. The other half is an incompetent recruitment team.

 

[Nymzee]

If you turn your noses up to Grealish on loan then I'm convinced you're only happy when we're crap.

 

[DanB90]

Yeah I do get this. Perception is half our battle at the minute. The other half is an incompetent recruitment team.

And the third half is fans who are bad at maths.