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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5310 on: August 01, 2025, 10:48:30 PM »
It was a bad game. But let’s be honest if essentially everything hinged on the result of it that’s not a sustainable model. I suspect this summer would have been a challenge either way, it’s just it’s more of a challenge.
The financial implications are enormous and Plan A would have looked very different to Plan B.

I doubt if there would be the same desperation to bring the washed up has been back if we were looking ahead to CL football.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2025, 10:54:25 PM by ChicagoLion »

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5311 on: August 01, 2025, 10:58:09 PM »
Well you’re confusing what some fans might want and what the club might want there. Who knows I might be proven wrong, but I’d be very surprised to see Grealish back. Not a personal thing, I just think with limited options he’s not a great choice.


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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5312 on: August 01, 2025, 11:02:39 PM »
Well you’re confusing what some fans might want and what the club might want there. Who knows I might be proven wrong, but I’d be very surprised to see Grealish back. Not a personal thing, I just think with limited options he’s not a great choice.
I very much doubt that the club are even considering it.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5313 on: August 01, 2025, 11:13:36 PM »
I don’t think there’s even the tiniest possibility we’ll see Grealish back. But an entertaining few pages nonetheless.

I think it’s clear that he likes a party, but there’s also a media obsession which will magnify it all.

I absolutely wouldn’t want him back as I don’t think he’s half the player we had. He’s also not a player we need.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5314 on: August 01, 2025, 11:19:16 PM »
The longer this summer goes on the more Lerner style vibes I feel. My rational head says that's rubbish and we are just fucked by poorly designed rules, but it just feels so flat.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5315 on: August 01, 2025, 11:29:37 PM »
The longer this summer goes on the more Lerner style vibes I feel. My rational head says that's rubbish and we are just fucked by poorly designed rules, but it just feels so flat.

I'm sure we'd spend if the rules allowed it.

We'll be OK.

It is fucking boring though.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5316 on: August 01, 2025, 11:51:26 PM »
The longer this summer goes on the more Lerner style vibes I feel. My rational head says that's rubbish and we are just fucked by poorly designed rules, but it just feels so flat.

It could be worse, we could have our best striker being unsettled in a 'will they, won't they' saga by the Red Scouse, and been beaten 4-0 by the Scottish Champions a couple of weeks ago.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5317 on: Today at 01:43:48 AM »
Well you’re confusing what some fans might want and what the club might want there. Who knows I might be proven wrong, but I’d be very surprised to see Grealish back. Not a personal thing, I just think with limited options he’s not a great choice.

I could see it being more of a possibility if Jacob Ramsey goes.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #5318 on: Today at 06:17:43 AM »
The longer this summer goes on the more Lerner style vibes I feel. My rational head says that's rubbish and we are just fucked by poorly designed rules, but it just feels so flat.

It does feel rubbish and flat, but I think the biggest indicator it’s the rules not a learner type situation is Kamara signing a new deal. That never happens in Lerner style cost slashing.

 


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