Harry Kane

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Is Grealish’s accent more marketable?

Certainloi

 

[LucahArchie10]

Just ask Jack to have 9 because Harry is being a Diva - seems a decent lad, sure he'd understand.

Obviously issue credits to Grealish shirt purchasers.

What's another cock-up.

Tell that to the 1000's of fans who have bought a shirt with Grealish 10 unfortunately he aint changing

 

[leo_city]

Is Grealish’s accent more marketable?

Low-key, loads make fun of it. They're capitalising on it, clever marketing

 

[DrBlueBob]

I think the club having a clear transfer strategy has taken the edge off transfer windows.

We identify targets, buy them or move on to the second option.

Gone of the days where our target goes AWOL and is found asleep at the airport.

Also August 2008 deadline day will never be topped. Sky should show the last 10 hours of that window at some point. I’d watch it!

Ha, that was mental, wasn't it?

There's still plenty of room for speculation re targets though. I am more than happy with way we conduct business but in this window alone we could potentially have gone for Mess, Ronaldo and if certain reports were to believed, Lewandowski as well.
Ally that with the fact that we have already broken the British transfer record with young Jack and are set fair to do it again with Sir Harold.
Heady times.

 

[Blootoof]

Money doesn’t produce talent. Top of the range training facilities, pitches and gyms do not produce talent.

Producing local or even more widely British talent is as much down to pure chance that a club just happens to stumble upon or scout an innately talented kid or group of kids at any one time, as it is anything to do with what any clubs do or how much they invest.

Over the decades, South American teams have had awful training facilities but have produced many of the best players over the decades because their kids have a ball at their feet for hours and hours a day from when they could walk which allows more of the innately talented kids to shine from an early age.

Celtic produced a great football team of local lads that won the European Cup by the pure chance that all those kids came through their Academy at once (it had never happened before and it hasn’t happened since). United produced half a team of their own players by pure chance that they all happened to come through their Academy at the same time (it had never happened before and it hasn’t happened since). Barcelona produced a great football team that Pep first coached who were the core of winning three trebles in a decade by pure chance that all those players came through at the same time from their Academy (it had never happened before and it hasn’t happened since).

There’s nothing particularly good about Celtic, United and Barça’s Academies as history has proven that they were all just one-off occurrences that a group of kids just happened to all come along at once. There’s never been a conveyor belt of talent coming through all the time through the decades at those clubs, and there hasn’t been anywhere else they’ve got a lot of money to put into their academies neither.

Phil Foden, by pure chance, just happened to be born with innate talent. He’s said just recently that he’s had a ball at his feet from when he could walk, he used to have a ball at his feet all the time, he’d dribble the ball to the shops to get milk for his Mother, he’d be out in the street playing football until it got dark… he was already a very talented kid before City even managed to scout him. He just happens to have been born in the local area and happens to be a City fan.

Exactly. united have hardly been pulling up trees regarding their youth since they got lucky with Giggs, Beckham and co, all coming through at the same time(and fuck me, they aint half dined on it, and use it as a stick to belittle other youth systems, including ours). In fact, they've probably got more players than anyone making a career for themselves elsewhere. A lot of luck(and natural talent)goes a long way when it comes to making it.

 

[Scareye]

Could you be arsed with someone who’s upset what number he wears?!

Personally I couldn't give shit if he is upset at the colour of the shirt as long as he scores goals.

 

[MadchesterCity]

We did not sign Grealish because of injuries!

Haha I'd bloody hope not for hinder million

 

[better dead than red]

If it is that big of a fucking deal to him let him buy the number off of Grealish. Offer saucy Jackie £20k for the 10 shirt.

It isn't unheard of for players joining a team to attempt to "purchase " their favoured number from a teammate. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't work.

 

[citizen_maine]

Kane’s people are annoyed that we’ve given 10 to Grealish. Shirt numbers and brand are a big thing these days

a number and brand that's so important to him, that he doesn't even have that number on his England shirt - one he would actually be able to ask for without any issue

 

[bobmcfc]

Trust & broken promises? Or simply an excuse to squeeze more money out of us?

I find it hard to believe he'd start throwing his weight around like a prissy little diva. Pep wouldn't put up with that shit at all. Pep would tell him to sling it