Tyrone Mings - signed permanently and confirmed as even more awesome

[Percy McCarthy]

Try’s gonna need bigger trousers, he’s already got Haaland, Ronaldo and Kane in his pockets.

[bob]

Just a thought but seeing Mings going with McGinn to lay flowers, and being on the front of the Cubs' Christmas cards with McGinn and Lehmann, makes me wonder if the club realise the mistake in removing the captaincy.

He's always up front in supporter relations, and vocal on the pitch too. I suspect though, that Emery is deciding on his best 11 first and will then focus on the captaincy. Martinez may not be the shoe-in I thought after his World Cup antics.

It's got nothing to do with "the club". Who are you referring to?

He's just a top bloke.

[bob]

Try’s gonna need bigger trousers, he’s already got Haaland, Ronaldo and Kane in his pockets.

He's been playing really well lately. Very important player for us.

[bob]

Maguire would be a good signing if we could get him for not a lot of money.

[Percy McCarthy]

Maguire would be a good signing if we could get him for not a lot of money.

… and we like watching a shambles every week.

[Ian.]

Maguire would be a good signing if we could get him for not a lot of money.

I actually like Maguire but I feel his confidence took a right battering and he’s taken his time to get through it. He looked completely shot in that pre-world cup competition for England, he also looked quite unfit. I thought Southgate was quite cruel when he played him at the time. However he didn’t do too bad in the World Cup.

He’d be a big gamble but there is a very good player in there.

[paul_e]

Maguire would be a good signing if we could get him for not a lot of money.

I actually like Maguire but I feel his confidence took a right battering and he’s taken his time to get through it. He looked completely shot in that pre-world cup competition for England, he also looked quite unfit. I thought Southgate was quite cruel when he played him at the time. However he didn’t do too bad in the World Cup.

He’d be a big gamble but there is a very good player in there.

I think he had 18months of looking a top defender, but once players realised he has the turning circle of an oil tanker he's looked a lot less assured. I'm not sure you can train his flaws out of his game either.

[passport1]

I think Leicester pulled the same trick we did with a certain individual in getting an inflated transfer fee that was way out of line with his ability.

[Ian.]

I must admit, I’d rather it wouldn’t be us who took the gamble, still like him though and I feel sorry for the stick he gets.

[Percy McCarthy]

I must admit, I’d rather it wouldn’t be us who took the gamble, still like him though and I feel sorry for the stick he gets.

Yes, I bet that ‘your defence is terrified’ song is a right bastard of an ear-worm for him.

[Drummond]

Just a thought but seeing Mings going with McGinn to lay flowers, and being on the front of the Cubs' Christmas cards with McGinn and Lehmann, makes me wonder if the club realise the mistake in removing the captaincy.

He's always up front in supporter relations, and vocal on the pitch too. I suspect though, that Emery is deciding on his best 11 first and will then focus on the captaincy. Martinez may not be the shoe-in I thought after his World Cup antics.

It's got nothing to do with "the club". Who are you referring to?

He's just a top bloke.

Are you being obtuse?

[chrisw1]

I think Leicester pulled the same trick we did with a certain individual in getting an inflated transfer fee that was way out of line with his ability.

There's no comparison at all.  Jack was looking like one of the most gifted players in the PL week in week out.  I'm still convinced we would have won the Euros if Southgate had played him every game.  The fact he's been a major dissapointment at Man City is more to do with the strict way they play, the coaching and probably Jack's confidence when he's no longer the big fish. 

[Somniloquism]

Just a thought but seeing Mings going with McGinn to lay flowers, and being on the front of the Cubs' Christmas cards with McGinn and Lehmann, makes me wonder if the club realise the mistake in removing the captaincy.

He's always up front in supporter relations, and vocal on the pitch too. I suspect though, that Emery is deciding on his best 11 first and will then focus on the captaincy. Martinez may not be the shoe-in I thought after his World Cup antics.

It's got nothing to do with "the club". Who are you referring to?

He's just a top bloke.

Are you being obtuse?

Although Bob can be obtuse, he is correct that "the club" didn't make the decision to drop the captaincy from Mings and "the club" doesn't make the decision to reinstate him as captain. The decisions ultimately rely on whichever person has the "Manager/Head Coach" moniker at the time.

However they do still use him in the press and publicity as he is popular, and won't normally embarrass them by making a club statement and then driving his vehicle into another one the next day, or be pictured huffing happy gas.

[bob]

Just a thought but seeing Mings going with McGinn to lay flowers, and being on the front of the Cubs' Christmas cards with McGinn and Lehmann, makes me wonder if the club realise the mistake in removing the captaincy.

He's always up front in supporter relations, and vocal on the pitch too. I suspect though, that Emery is deciding on his best 11 first and will then focus on the captaincy. Martinez may not be the shoe-in I thought after his World Cup antics.

It's got nothing to do with "the club". Who are you referring to?

He's just a top bloke.

Are you being obtuse?

I got the impression that he went to lay those flowers of his own volition. I thought by the look of McGinn's face he'd been dragged out of bed by Tyrone. Not sure that the club would have instructed Tyrone to go.

In any case the person in charge of the Christmas cards won't have any input on the captaincy.

[Drummond]

We all know that 'the club' make decisions about how the players go about things. The players don't organise the visits to the hospital/acorns etc. 'The club' decide who goes on the front of Christmas cards, who is on the photos on the website, who goes where.

I suspect that all of the people behind the scenes will have had discussions with whoever it is that makes the final decisions in each respective area and that a bigger decision will have been made. If I was the Marketing and publicity person I'd like Mings there because he does the right things, says the right things, leads by example etc.

Everyone was surprised/shocked that McGinn replaced Mings as captain, and I think that behind the scenes 'the club' will have felt the same way, as likeable as McGinn may be.