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I think he was just enjoying the display of affection and reluctant to wriggle free.

Hilarious. Arsenal keeper there, man. He wasn't being held, he was doing the holding and oblivious to what was going on around him.

Reckon he'll struggle after we turned his head.

Reading this thread it brings back some pretty bad memories. I remember us celebrating Glen Whelan missing a 90th minute pen to get something against Sheffield Wednesday as it basically meant Bruce was toast. Have you thought about getting someone to throw a cabbage at him? Worked for us. BTW - we used to get all the exact same talking-down shit from him too, except we got it in the Championship FFS.

Thomas Frank looks like an ageing German ski instructor who hangs around the resort with the cool kids, supplying them with low quality weed and shagging several of them over the course of most weekends.

Edu Brute?

Staggering that Arsenal sold us Emi Martinez, who is for my money one of the best keepers in Europe, to replace him with someone half as much again who isn't even any use. As a club, they are absolutely all over the place.

I think my ironimeter just exploded and took my head clean off my shoulders.

I thought this was great too. Clearly explained exactly what happened and why. Everyone back on board again. I know he had his knockers at Liverpool and Chelsea but Purslow has been brilliant from day one with us.

I can't even remember who he is, although the name does ring a bell.

In fairness, he's only been 29 for a week.

Ings to Villa means Kane to Spurs if you ask me. Spurs linked with Ings for a while, think we got wind that was going to look more likely so got in there while we could. Genuinely not heard so much as a sniff about Danny Ings to us all summer.

That's totally out of the blue.

Danny Ings. Good signing

I'd much rather he stayed but we'll be a better team if we spend that money and spend it wisely. Buendia and Bailey are already very good signings, and I think Ward-Prowse would improve us a lot too. We need another option up front, though, definitely, and I am not sure Tammy fits the bill, but there is no getting away from the fact £100m is a lot of money.

Awww bollocks.

Kevin Friend displays a sense of humour. Responds to Villa fans telling him he's just a shit Mike Dean by booking them.

He's absolutely shite. Was the same with us and has not changed since - run fast in a straight line, run out of pitch, repeat. He reminds me of Tony Daley, except Daley used to score every now and then.

I used to watch Gazza when he was coming through with you when I lived up there, and watching Grealish these last few years has been exactly like watching Gazza was. I always remember Gascoigne in his early Newcastle days, head back, chest out, arrogantly playing with such swagger, he stood out a mile. I got exactly the same feeling watching Grealish come through.

Man City want to buy Grealish because they can and they need to show everyone they can. People who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I think that's the thinking behind Buendia, Bailey and prob Cantwell - once Grealish was out, we had no creativity around the box.

I fucking hope so.

I would much rather keep Jack, even if the price is £100m. Jsut because of the symbolism of it. However, I concede, that's a fucking huge amount of money and could be transformative on top of what we've already spent of late. One thing we saw last year was that when he was out injured, we really suffered, and I think the signings so far this close season are aimed very much at being less reliant on him. Buendia and Bailey suggest a requirement for creativity, certainly, and I think Buendia in particular looks like an incredible prospect. My only comment on Grealish is that he is absolutely brilliant, and will become more brilliant, but he's prone to long injury lay offs, so perhaps spending that money a bit cleverly would spread that reliance and mitigate the potential chaos caused by a single injury. Ultimately, if he goes, it will because he wants to guarantee champions league football and medals and we're just going to have to accept it. What I absolutely do know though is, the owners will have pulled out all the stops to attempt to get him to stay.

All that Grealish stuff from something in the Guardian by Fabrizio Romano. I rest my case.