Confirmed Signing Jack Grealish

[Blue_Berry]

People can't really comprehend huge figures - money, measurement, whatever. I think moaning about "wages", that lovely working-class term - when these are the "salaries" of top professionals, is about 35 years too late. Jimmy Hill fought for fair wages for working-class players. The game is now globalised. The unintended consequences of Jimmy's sterling work can be seen today, exploited for what they are.

We pay a few players over 100k as it is. If we reject all of this, we need to embrace relegation to the Championship. But even second division players are, in some cases, earning objectively ridiculous amounts.

Pay your Sky subscription, your inflated beer prices at the Dock, and welcome Jack.

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Very much this, my friend.

Fretting at paying Grealish (or anyone) such wages harks back to the days when we were skint. I mean Kenwright skint, or Moshiri how-to-utterly-misunderstand-psr skint.

I get that many are still sceptical, but surely we appear to have broken that cycle now, new wealthy new owners and a shiny new stadium? If we aspire to be a European club, we must get used to playing with the big boys.

If we take Grealish on for a year on these terms and it doesn't work out, will it really cripple us financially?

 

[Simon Buttle]

I think we can cover four matches without him. I also don’t really feel like we need to rotate all that much? We have 38 matches, plus however many league cup games where we will put out a joke lineup for the first three rounds no matter who we have available, and then the 6 cup games max which will only create actual fixture congestion if we get to the quarterfinals or beyond.

Without Europe your best players can conceivably play 35 plus games in the season.

We need to rotate because we are a club that picks up injuries very easily, its normal tbh look at Mykolenko yesterday.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

250k a week for a spark

Going rate for a decent tradesman these days.

 

[james2805]

I actually think Ndiaye would be great playing 10/just off the main striker, if he has better plays around him to link with.

Grealish playing left and coming inside, and Dibling the other side, and Barry hopefully holding and laying balls back off better than Beto, and it would work.

And give the ability for fluid swaps through games across the front 3 behind the striker.

Nevermind the fact that we also need DEPTH in positions anyway.

 

[Lob]

So we’re playing Ndiaye up top?

Just proving to you that both can play left wing and attacking mid comfortably which you obviously didn't like hence the daft response.

 

[DanB90]

NDiyae himself won’t be sweating this

He’ll no doubt be pumped and excited to play with Grealish and relish the opportunity to grow as a player

Agree with this.

Top level football is so fluid these days anyway, it doesn’t matter if you’re an attacker starting on the right, left, or centre.

Most wingers these days no longer hug the touchine. It’s all about clever interplay and getting yourself in attacking areas.

 

[TheBigIguana]

We need a marquee player befitting of BMD and TFG takeover. Puts down a marker to attract others.

Grealish will do nicely in that role

(Aside from the fact that I fingered him months ago as a potential signing and got shouted down *** sticky tongue out emoji)

Are we going to pay the others like Grealish?

 

[Drico]

It would seem some supporters want ‘Elite’ players as long as they aren’t paid too much, the cost of a pint isn’t too expensive and stadium sponsor names should easily roll off the tongue.

A section of our fanbase still hasn't worked out that this new stadium wasn't built for the loyal local going every two weeks. I saw Ped on ToffeeTV last night moaning about prices because "we go every two weeks." I don't think the penny has dropped. The plan will be to increase the day-tripper/tourist market as we go along. No working class local fanbase has a world-classs facility like ours to enjoy cheaply. There is a reason for that. Such facilities are not built for such fanbases. They are built to maximise the big event public over time. Ped lamented that "going the match" was not like going to a concert and being ripped off. I hate to rain on his parade, but demand will dictate all of this - and there is a world of potential "customers" out there who will be interested in coming to see a successful, exciting Everton side in a world-class stadium. Yup, it'll be like going to a concert with all the negatives that entails.

The club has spent 25 years dithering about moving into the 21st century, despite effectively ending the 20th century status quo as one of the "Big Five" in their 1992 breakaway. Some fans are still back there with Robert Warzycha and John Ebbrell.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Just proving to you that both can play left wing and attacking mid comfortably which you obviously didn't like hence the daft response.

I used to get accused of not watching the matches but this is a really watch the players moment. Ndiaye is literally Grealish when he broke on the scene at Villa. They dribble and move similar, they have the same weird ball striking, they play passes into similar areas. Can and should arent the same thing, and neither should play anywhere else.

Also we just spent a ton of money on a #10 no? So how does that work?

 

[BlueStevie35]

How many times have we had games where Ili, Dwight, Charley etc have ran themselves in the ground where they aren’t as effective and we haven’t had that extra in situ to come on, that’s what Grealish gives you

 

[TheBigIguana]

We need to rotate because we are a club that picks up injuries very easily, its normal tbh look at Mykolenko yesterday.

Replace injuries and rotate aren’t the same. Mykolenko didn’t get hurt because he’s too fatigued and shouldn’t have been playing in the first place.

 

[BlueBarrow]

Formidable mate. Could completely transform us especially if we get Dibling on the right wing too.

We would have actually become an exciting football team. FC Sexy , that's us !

 

[Efcjake]

This makes more sense, but then a week after signing KDB it would mean the latter is played further back next to Gueye? As we’re not in the place for £25m subs yet.

Could be Moyes does that Christmas tree formation he’s tried in pre season I suppose.

My real concern with this would be shattering our wage structure for a loan player. But as 1) he hasn’t signed yet and 2) we got no knowledge of that it’s a speculative anxiety really.

Yes please.

 

[kenada_blue]

Just gonna have a front line of players shouting "megs" all season.

All for it like.

 

[bluestevon]

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?

yeah they are very good mates apparently, never played much together but though.