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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5280 on: August 01, 2025, 07:38:15 PM »
Ha. You said privy.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5281 on: August 01, 2025, 07:42:51 PM »
At his age, he needs to look after himself, so he doesn't end up as a Gabby instead of an Ashley Young, if it's not too late already.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5282 on: August 01, 2025, 07:54:03 PM »
His on pitch performances suggest it could well be catching up to him. He's gone from the most exciting and talked about player in the country, if not Europe, into a meme rarely positively mentioned for on pitch performances. 

There's approx 500 PL players every year, Jack seems to be drunk in public (outside of one offs like trophy celebrations) more than the other 499 combined. Gone are the days of a drinking culture amongst players, now they are elite athletes and that's how they live.

I don't care what he does with his life, it's his life, but I will give my opinion that how he lives is having an increasingly negative impact on his career especially when linked with us. As a person I like him a lot, I never hated him the way some did when he left, as a PL level athlete, not such a fan.

Same as when I was 19 I could be out on the piss, then go to a house party and then go to work in the morning after no sleep, and be decent. By the time I was 30 I wasn't half as decent if I tried it. As an average person what you can do changes as you get older, it's a lot bigger difference in an elite athlete where a milisecond of physical or mental ability is massive.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5283 on: August 01, 2025, 07:56:21 PM »
How often has he actually been seen pissed in public?

And is part of the reason he's papped like that because he has significantly more photographers following him around than most of the other 499, to see him in the first place?

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5284 on: August 01, 2025, 07:59:51 PM »
Pretty sure if Ollie was out pissed it would hit social media. Same with any other player. They either don't do it, or are at least smart enough to do it quietly rather than travel to Sunderland and give everyone free drinks. He hardly seems to keep a low profile when on the lash.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5285 on: August 01, 2025, 08:02:49 PM »
Evil bastard giving everyone free drinks.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5286 on: August 01, 2025, 08:03:39 PM »
Didn’t Mings go home a few days later still in his Villa kit? Terrible man, out drinking and having fun. He must have been stinking.

Funny how we all call McGrath ‘God’. I’m sure there’s plenty of other Villa heroes who liked a all nighter from time to time.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5287 on: August 01, 2025, 08:09:17 PM »
What players did even 15-20 years ago is irrelevant to the modern game. Never mind the 80s and before.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5288 on: August 01, 2025, 08:09:38 PM »
Didn’t Mings go home a few days later still in his Villa kit? Terrible man, out drinking and having fun. He must have been stinking.

Funny how we all call McGrath ‘God’. I’m sure there’s plenty of other Villa heroes who liked a all nighter from time to time.

Mings was the next day, not a few days later. McGrath was a different era.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5289 on: August 01, 2025, 08:14:18 PM »
I don’t think Jack would be a good signing, but this judgement of his personal life is pretty tedious.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5290 on: August 01, 2025, 08:14:41 PM »
None of us really know if he would be good enough, you can't tell by one spell on the sidelines that a player is on his way down. Martinez, Mings and Rogers, not to mention the likes of Withe and McGrath, only signed for us because they were judged not good enough or no longer good enough by teams that were better than us and I don't think anyone would say they've been bad signings.

Just as some were writing the career obituaries for Rashford and now Barcelona have signed him, so Grealish could easily go to someone like Newcastle, Tottenham, or us, and be brilliant. Or he could be in terminal decline. I doubt it'll be having a few drinks on his week off that makes the difference, though.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5291 on: August 01, 2025, 08:15:20 PM »
God this is a boring window. 

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5292 on: August 01, 2025, 08:17:55 PM »
God this is a boring window. 
Should have picked the round one.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5293 on: August 01, 2025, 08:20:03 PM »
God this is a boring window. 
Should have picked the round one.

Would there be a signing behind that one?  Bloody hope so.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5294 on: August 01, 2025, 08:29:17 PM »
God this is a boring window. 
Should have picked the round one.

Would there be a signing behind that one?  Bloody hope so.

Me too. I just hope, if we finally do, he’s worth waiting for.

 


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