Nope, definitely wasn’t there a few days ago.
My concern is that if he’s doing all this now , does he really want to be here ,sounds like he will be off as soon as it’s not going his way . It would be nice if we can get players to stay because they wanted to stay not because of the money we are offering and the promises of jumping the queue into the first team . This situation is looking more and more like an Edwards and A TOB scenario . Both probably not ready to be put in with the first team training and surroundings yet , but were Given priority access and easy route , as we as a club giving Into them and their agents , over the risk of losing them . But then a year or 2 down the line it becomes clearly visible that they are not and were not ready after all . For me I like Edwards TOB and griffiths , and would rather they were not rushed into first team and given time to mature into professional footballers , but I fear by them and their representatives putting pressure on the club to be fast tracked as such , is doing them more bad then good . This has already been proved in the cases of Edwards and especially TOB .
That’s rubbish really. He’s only got one career, and if he has an offer from RB Leipzig as reported, he’d be foolish not to consider it - as the facts are that there is more of a pathway to 1st team football there than in the PL. Hopefully we’ve convinced him to stay though.
Completely misunderstood my point . These boys are clearly not ready to compete first team football in the premier league . But because agents or parents think they are , the club is being forced to involve them , when clearly they are not ready , resulting in the boy failing in the long run .if I’m honest he is better off leaving then forcing the club to use him before he is ready . Hopefully I’m wrong but let’s see what happens !
Who says they're not ready though? I'm not saying Griffiths is per say, I've not seen enough of him to judge, but would Walker-Peters really have done any worse than Aurier has this year? Maybe the Bundesliga is not quite as harsh to go into as the PL, but the likes of Sancho and Lookman are doing well over there. We'll see more academy stars trying their luck, for sure.
