Jack Grealish

[klink]

Douchebag team mates?
John Terry?

 

[cider spurs]

Is he Eriksen standard...nope. Is he Dembele beastly...nope. Is he the finished article...nope. Are we spending £50+ million on him...nope.

We've recently been reminded by @Trix, that our transfer approach sees us sign middle of the road players. Some work out and excel, some don't.

Grealish is just this, but hopefully at a reduced fee minimizing financial risk.

He may bomb, he may be shit-hot-awesome, but one thing remains, this is how we have conducted in windows thus far.

Maybe some would be underwhelmed by this potential signing, is it because there was talk of some £50 + million players maybe coming in?...Who's to say we aren't going to snaffle 1-2 top talents.

But for those that think we won't be interested in signings with potential, at a good price in the hope they excel with coaching...I find somewhat bewildering.

Grealish at the right price fits our MO.

 

[Hotspurious]

From what I read the professionalism of John Terry is what turned him around/. Terry may be despicable as a human being but he’s a professional and Steve Bruce claims that he was a maturing influence on Grealish.

 

[Trix]

From what I read the professionalism of John Terry is what turned him around/. Terry may be despicable as a human being but he’s a professional and Steve Bruce claims that he was a maturing influence on Grealish.

It's a lot to do with his injury as well. I think he said somewhere he had a lot of time to think while out about how it would be if he couldn't play any more, and is now determined to make the best of what time he has. I'm sure Terry had a big part to play in that as well though.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

So is this deal looking like a goer then? Or we still discussing tabloid rumours?

 

[worcestersauce]

So is this deal looking like a goer then? Or we still discussing tabloid rumours?

I thought we have had genuine information confirming this was a goer haven't we?

 

[Metalhead]

But surely the agents of these targets will be shopping their clients around for the best deal the moment we, or any team, enquire? I’m not really sure how one can avoid a bidding war in this day and age. If your client is avalible then your job as an agent is to push him towards the most money + most playing time with the CL as a big bonus. Maybe the bidding war might not be in the public eye but it must go on all the time especially for bigger names players no?

Getting in a really decent player under the radar (especially early) is rare. We did it with Modric but I'm struggling to think of other examples.

 

[alexis]

Sorry thought a bunch of them were for some reason rather than the obvious one

 

[tiger666]

So is this deal looking like a goer then? Or we still discussing tabloid rumours?

We had this, plus a few other snippets.

http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/index.php?threads/jack-grealish.132973/post-5909113

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

I thought we have had genuine information confirming this was a goer haven't we?

I haven’t been paying much attention. Sorry

 

[aussie spur]

I can see this taking a while. Villa will be in denial about selling cheap, the owner will still be squirming around looking for investors/buyers etc and may well keep them afloat while that is playing out.

The uncertainty will also make it harder to convince our players to go there (on loan or otherwise) and even then it becomes a multi player negotiation.

That's even assuming Grealish wants us and only us.

 

[dondo]

I thought we have had genuine information confirming this was a goer haven't we?

Have we?
I read through pages and pages of this thread and I can’t find any??
Nothing in the RO either

 

[worcestersauce]

Have we?
I read through pages and pages of this thread and I can’t find any??
Nothing in the RO either

A few posts:-

He never was going to cost 40m lol

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baggins on coys, more than 14 000 post and i dont think a bullshitter: My son, who works for Bet Fred, has just called me and said that one of his colleagues has a contact who works at Spurs and has told him that Grealish has an "appointment" at Spurs tomorrow. Appointment might be a chat with Poch and a look round the training centre or it might be a medical, my son didn't find out. He did say that the odds on him joining Spurs have dropped from 9/1 to Evens though. Just thought I would pass it on with all the Grealish info floating around at the moment.

posting it here as im unsure of the validity

Looking all set up

I would also add, I hope he doesn't mind, Trix has contributed to the discussion but hasn't said any of his contacts have dismissed this, I personally find that positive.

All of these point to more than rumours in my humble opinion.

 

[wrd]

I wouldn't be surprised if we had sorted the finances fairly sharpish on this and this allowed villa to stave off HMRC for a while as was reported this week.

 

[Japhet]

I wouldn't be surprised if we had sorted the finances fairly sharpish on this and this allowed villa to stave off HMRC for a while as was reported this week.

I read that their owner has taken out a loan to see them through and probably also to ward off a fire sale.

 

[dave5150]

Comparing Winks and Grealish isn’t comparing apples with apples. It’s comparing apples with net spend.

Fixed your post! SC approved now!

 

[cjsimba]

Perhaps that's because the higher profile targets need to be protected. Last thing we want is to encourage an early bidding war.

But won’t those high profile players’ agents inform other clubs of our interest to encourage a bidding war anyway?

I never understood the idea of us trying to keep a transfer quiet. Surely it’s in the selling club/player’s interest for them to shout about any interest from the rooftops, no matter what we want?

 

[Kempus]

Less than 20 million and it's a decent gamble to take.

 

[Japhet]

Less than 20 million and it's a decent gamble to take.

IMO that only happens with some pretty tough add ons.

 

[Luka Van der Bale]

I think you'll find we're about 3/4 of the way there. Only time you can question the club is when we inevitably fuck up the transfer window. Then you can question it and be negative for conservatively 3 hours.

Ffs. We have literally built ourselves up from consistent mid-lower table performances to top 3 three years in a row based on our sensible buying on a budget. To criticise our transfer policy is genuinely laughable - what we’ve done over the past 15 years is probably the biggest success story in the league considering our budget relative to the teams we’re competing with. There isn’t any reason why it should be us in this position right now rather than Newcastle, Everton or Aston Villa. We’d all like to see us make that final push to another level this summer. But at least have a bit of appreciation for quite how incredible what we’ve done up to this point is.