Jack Grealish

[melrose40yarder]

I didn't know we have a Ben Foden playing in our midfield. According to slow talking/ almost grinding to a halt Kaveh Solhekol on SLY Sports we have.
He goes on to say, Jack won't play every game for City....

No sh1t

I didn't know we have a Ben Foden playing in our midfield. According to slow talking/ almost grinding to a halt Kaveh Solhekol on SLY Sports we have.
He goes on to say, Jack won't play every game for City....

No sh1t

When he said i d i d n o t t h i n k i c o u l d do the show to day cos i had a headache.I was hoping he had a tumour shocking i know.

 

[Clevers]

Lobby correspondent for the Scotsman. Is the Scotsman the GPC.

 

[andthesunshineband]

Ben was a fabulous scrum half at sale never thought he would make the jump to football so easily

Maybe they meant Ben Fogle. He'd be great for teaching Kane to speak posh?

 

[bobmcfc]

Head to the Messi thread if you're all bored. Looks like his Barca deal is dust

 

[kaz7]

I log off around 8pm these days , wildlife to feed and love island to watch , hurry up city

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

More like

Is that Hairy Kane?

 

[mattcity5]

But so what what’s the outcome? Revenue.

Now I responded to a comment about Grealish being a superstar off the field, remember that.

Off the field marketing superstardom is all about the ability to create “Net New” shirt sales.

Does Jack Grealish bring us a Superstar’s following off the pitch? and with that a huge addressable market of net new prospects to sell to? I’m not convinced that he does.

Kids will buy shirts with his name on, but they will Manc kids / existing fans picking his name over what they had on the back f their shirts last season. That’s not net new, it’s replacement.

Net new sales come from overseas and emerging markets, which I’m not convinced Grealish has an appeal to given his social media following.

I’m happy to be corrected.

But...

He's been at Villa, so not had the huge exposure to develop a large overseas fan base.

We saw how England supporters took to him because of his playing style and personality during the Euros.

Being at City is his chance to develop that fan base. You're right about the shirt sales in his first season I'd say, but that might all change in the seasons to come?

 

[Serrrrgio]

Sky Sports News are shit. Spent a good few minutes slagging off our deal with Grealish yet the Lukaku to Chelsea deal is great value for money. Yawn.

 

[mattyb]

Off the pitch, he absolutely will be. By the way, did you respond to the posts earlier in the thread about Fanatics not being involved with City anymore? Bit confused about this. They were binned off months ago, so how did Grealish's shirt number trickle through to you via your mate?

Not sure what you’re getting at here bud? I’m got a text of someone I know at Fanatics, which I shared for info.

By all accounts this deal and the Kane deal have been in the pipeline for months, so you not think it could be based on previous conversations at Exec level?

 

[cleavers]

I hope it transpires that it's 99.5m.

99,999,999,99 would be very funny.