2025/26 Jack Grealish


ElGato said:
Look, you'll find numerous examples of me on here defending positions of nuance over reactionary comment. I find the transfer thread to be one of the most negative and hysterical forums on here, where most opinion is informed by nothing more than casual tabloid sensationalism.

One thing I won't do is pull you up for having your opinions. I might debate you on the merits of them, but ultimately it is your choice to feel dissatisfied and provide rationale for that. I don't disagree that Jack Grealish is probably 'past his best', is overpaid (along with every other footballer on the face of the planet) and was probably a bit of a gamble. I will disagree that he has 'questionable off field behaviour', but let's not get into the ins and outs of casual tabloid sensationalism right now.

One thing I will pull you up on, though, is if you pretend not to have had those opinions, or that you meant something different by them than you originally intended. You were quite clearly dissatisfied with the decision for Everton to be in for Grealish (along with being generally dissatisfied, it seems, with every other piece of transfer business in the summer) for the aforementioned reasons. You were very vocal about that dissatisfaction to the point where you evidently didn't want the transfer to go ahead.

Now he looks like our most important player, and someone has pulled you up on that original foundation. Can you admit that you were wrong, and that it was a good bit of business?
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Can you pull up a post of mine where I critiqued the signing after we’d made it? Can you find an example of me saying it was a poor signing and he wouldn’t be any good for us? They’re conclusions that you’ve just come to in your head by connecting an imaginary set of dots, all because I had reservations about whether it was a signing we were ever going to entertain in the first place. Yes, of course, I got that bit massively wrong. Our interest was obviously real and not click bait journalist crap which I initially thought it was.

If someone offered me the chance to sign him permanently for £50m right now, I’d still think that we shouldn’t do that. That’s not because he’s utter crap lad and not good enough for this club NSNO, it’s for a much wider variety of reasons including the price, wages, his age. It’s just not as straightforward as “you don’t think we should sign him so you think he’s crap lad”.

And yes he has had a bigger impact in his first two games than I ever thought he would have. I thought it would take him much longer to get his fitness levels up to speed than it has done. Fair play to him he’s proven me wrong on that one. I’ll repeat once again though. It’s been 2 games.
 
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ElGato said:
Look, you'll find numerous examples of me on here defending positions of nuance over reactionary comment. I find the transfer thread to be one of the most negative and hysterical forums on here, where most opinion is informed by nothing more than casual tabloid sensationalism.

One thing I won't do is pull you up for having your opinions. I might debate you on the merits of them, but ultimately it is your choice to feel dissatisfied and provide rationale for that. I don't disagree that Jack Grealish is probably 'past his best', is overpaid (along with every other footballer on the face of the planet) and was probably a bit of a gamble. I will disagree that he has 'questionable off field behaviour', but let's not get into the ins and outs of casual tabloid sensationalism right now.

One thing I will pull you up on, though, is if you pretend not to have had those opinions, or that you meant something different by them than you originally intended. You were quite clearly dissatisfied with the decision for Everton to be in for Grealish (along with being generally dissatisfied, it seems, with every other piece of transfer business in the summer) for the aforementioned reasons. You were very vocal about that dissatisfaction to the point where you evidently didn't want the transfer to go ahead.

Now he looks like our most important player, and someone has pulled you up on that original foundation. Can you admit that you were wrong, and that it was a good bit of business?
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Agree with all that - The fact is so far Grealish looks pure class & that's all that matters - There were rumours about him at City on his off field antics etc - He is our player now & it was more than DM who fetched him here - DM included related to him what a good move to us it would be etc etc - We have him for at least a season - lets justify in keeping him - our attacking play has shot up 3-4 gears .....
 

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