Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[villadelph]

I see Jack posted pics of him on FB in his battered old boots and holding the cup after the play off win.

I reckon it's happening, season long loan.

That would be such a backward step for us.

We could do a lot worse.. especially if the plan is to run it back with the same squad -Rashford, -Asencio, -Duran.

[PeterWithesShin]

What, on the pitch, has Grealish done in the last 18 months that would make anyone on here want to sign him if those same performances were A.N. Other with no previous connection to us.

[Sexual Ealing]

It would at least be interesting.

[cdbearsfan]

What, on the pitch, has Grealish done in the last 18 months that would make anyone on here want to sign him if those same performances were A.N. Other with no previous connection to us.

Probably similar to what Rashford did in the eighteen months before we signed him, or not far off anyway.

[villadelph]

What, on the pitch, has Grealish done in the last 18 months that would make anyone on here want to sign him if those same performances were A.N. Other with no previous connection to us.

He won’t lose the ball nearly as much as Bailey, or even Rogers quite frankly.

[Dave]

What, on the pitch, has Grealish done in the last 18 months that would make anyone on here want to sign him if those same performances were A.N. Other with no previous connection to us.

I'm guessing nobody would be signing him on the strength of the last 18 months, but on the hope that what he produced in the five / six years before that could be found again.

The last eighteen months of Youri's Leicester career weren't exactly stellar either, but we signed him assuming we might be able to do better with him than he had been showing.

[mrfuse]

What, on the pitch, has Grealish done in the last 18 months that would make anyone on here want to sign him if those same performances were A.N. Other with no previous connection to us.

We know there's a top player in there — it's just about the right circumstances. Pep's an egotistical coach and hasn't allowed him to play anywhere near his full potential.

If Emery is open to the idea, and something can be done about his ridiculous wages, I’ve got no doubt he could get Jack firing again.

Let’s be honest — if he were playing brilliantly, we’d have no chance of signing him. It’s not exactly the same, but there are definite similarities to how we ended up getting Rashford on loan.

[cdbearsfan]

Yeah, it's not like Grealish is in his late thirties and there was no chance of him ever recapturing good form. He was a first team regular for both one of the best clubs and one of the best countries in the world less than a year ago.

[PeterWithesShin]

Rashford scored 11 league goals, Grealish 1. So nowhere near what Rashford was doing at a basketcase club with shit managers.

And it proves my point, rather than be able to say "well he did this and that" it's trying to compare him with someone else.

[PeterWithesShin]

Youri wasn't nearly 30 and getting pissed in public more often than scoring.

[cdbearsfan]

It's about as close to the Rashford scenario as you can get, except that Grealish was regularly getting a game for a much better team.

[cdbearsfan]

Youri wasn't nearly 30 and getting pissed in public more often than scoring.

Your weird Daily Mail obsession with a player occasionally having a drink in his spare time doesn't exactly lend credence to your argument.

[PeterWithesShin]

As long as you ignore things like goals, professionalism, etc.

[PeterWithesShin]

Youri wasn't nearly 30 and getting pissed in public more often than scoring.

Your weird Daily Mail obsession with a player occasionally having a drink in his spare time doesn't exactly lend credence to your argument.

Fuck off.

[Ian.]

I’d have Grealish back in a heartbeat, but we still need some devastating pace in the side though.