Transfer Rumour Matt Grimes (4 Viewers)

[quinn1971]

love our fans, he’s been spotted at coombe abbey apparantley, it’s always coombe abbey Lampard was spotted there and the forest of arden and the belfry on the same night, no wonder we’re apparantley skint, bloody expenses

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Medical and announcement tomorrow I’d expect

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Medical and announcement tomorrow I’d expect

Nah I reckon it’ll be later in the week if before the Swansea game. Could see them delaying it till Saturday evening

 

[JimmyHillsbeard]

love our fans, he’s been spotted at coombe abbey apparantley, it’s always coombe abbey Lampard was spotted there and the forest of arden and the belfry on the same night, no wonder we’re apparantley skint, bloody expenses

Shows how up themselves our new targets have become. Time was you could rely on Phil Masinga being spotted at KFC and Robert Earnshaw filling up his vehicle at the Tesco forecourt on the Arena.

 

[quinn1971]

Shows how up themselves our new targets have become. Time was you could rely on Phil Masinga being spotted at KFC and Robert Earnshaw filling up his vehicle at the Tesco forecourt on the Arena.

The games gone

 

[Sick Boy]

Yep cause that's what I said that it MUST be.

Doesn't matter if I'm wrong, was just always a rumour on here.

It wasn’t a rumour on here, it was a made up conspiracy by one poster.

 

[junglej13]

Was chatting to a Leeds fan about Grimes before and didn't realise he went there on loan. His mum slagged off the Leeds fans when he left so apparently he's hated there...

 

[Chicken Mcgraw]

Was chatting to a Leeds fan about Grimes before and didn't realise he went there on loan. His mum slagged off the Leeds fans when he left so apparently he's hated there...View attachment 41102

Yeah his failure to settle away from Swansea and Exeter has to be a concern

 

[rob9872]

Was chatting to a Leeds fan about Grimes before and didn't realise he went there on loan. His mum slagged off the Leeds fans when he left so apparently he's hated there...View attachment 41102

Well tbf she's not wrong

 

[wingy]

Reading that in a Stacy style voice!!

 

[SBbucks]

I’m amazed that many people commenting on here have obviously never seen him play. We’ve played Swansea 9 times since we have been back in the championship, have never beaten them, and he has been outstanding in most games.

 

[Calista]

So sheaf never makes mistakes?

No idea how you got that from what I said

 

[Sick Boy]

So it turns out we’re not skint then? There’s a surprise.

 

[Lamps]

So it turns out we’re not skint then? There’s a surprise.

There's skint and then there's skint.

Most of the time it's to do with cash flow with football clubs. Most probably we owe millions for players we have bought but will be owed millions from the players we have sold. We won't be paying for Grimes in one go. But we rarely get to know the terms of sales. But when the man on the street is skint it's because he doesn't have a pot to piss in.

 

[Sick Boy]

There's skint and then there's skint.

Most of the time it's to do with cash flow with football clubs. Most probably we owe millions for players we have bought but will be owed millions from the players we have sold. We won't be paying for Grimes in one go. But we rarely get to know the terms of sales. But when the man on the street is skint it's because he doesn't have a pot to piss in.

The point was that it was another made up rumour on here that quickly became fact.

 

[Lamps]

The point was that it was another made up rumour on here that quickly became fact.

Just like most things on here

I'm glad Binks is on 30k a week so we can pay a Prem wage for Grimes.

 

[SkyBlueBarmy84]

I remember at least two Swansea match threads where many - including me - were complementing Grimes for running the game and wishing we had him in our squad. Genuine statement signing.

 

[procdoc]

I’m amazed that many people commenting on here have obviously never seen him play. We’ve played Swansea 9 times since we have been back in the championship, have never beaten them, and he has been outstanding in most games.

Every time we have played them since coming back up I’ve left the game thinking how is Grimes not playing above this level. I thought he always looked better than the likes of Flynn Downes who went to the premier league

 

[ptr]

I’m amazed that many people commenting on here have obviously never seen him play. We’ve played Swansea 9 times since we have been back in the championship, have never beaten them, and he has been outstanding in most games.

It’s more concerning that people see that he’s 29 and assume he must use a zimmer frame during games.

 

[Viktor17]

From the same people who have been banging on about experience needed.

grimes an excellent player, also gives us bedding in as he will likely replace sheaf long term come summer.

 

[skyblue_55]

You only have to read some of the Swansea fans feelings , over this transfer .
It seems to be relegation now , with no hope of recovery & future league 1 football.
There talisman has come to us & his ability to stay injury free , really does put question marks over Sheaf .
A new dawn ahead under Frank .
CTID

 

[procdoc]

It’s more concerning that people see that he’s 29 and assume he must use a zimmer frame during games.

Exactly! Gary McAllister was running games in the premier league at 35/36. Sometimes you need to invest in players for the here and now and not always think about sell-on value

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Grimes is basically Sheaf with fewer mistakes?

Plus hopefully he will play more games.

 

[Sky Blue Goblin]

Would love to see this done today with a gentleman’s agreement about Saturday

 

[covcity4life]

The point was that it was another made up rumour on here that quickly became fact.

Yup. Saddle peddled it too I think

No loans and no oldies is some other myths fans have made up it seems.

I would imagine it's an anti Doug king thing

 

[Robinshio]

Would love to see this done today with a gentleman’s agreement about Saturday

so long as that agreement says as a golden handshake, they have to let him walk the ball into the goal unchallenged at least 3 times

 

[clint van damme]

Exactly! Gary McAllister was running games in the premier league at 35/36. Sometimes you need to invest in players for the here and now and not always think about sell-on value

If this post gets a poo emoji we've uncovered Kings log in on here.

 

[clint van damme]

Yup. Saddle peddled it too I think

No loans and no oldies is some other myths fans have made up it seems.

I would imagine it's an anti Doug king thing

We're the only team in the league without a loanee, so it's not a myth.
And it's clear there's something behind his unwillingness to sign experience players as we've stripped the squad of them

Hopefully with the contract given to Bidwell and this signing (which hopefully goes through), he's seen sense.

One of the reasons I started to come round to the idea of Lampard is I thought King might be more likely to listen to a 'name'. I've no idea if that is the case but it seems plausible to me.

 

[coop]

They will still beat us Saturday.

 

[Sick Boy]

We're the only team in the league without a loanee, so it's not a myth.
And it's clear there's something behind his unwillingness to sign experience players as we've stripped the squad of them

Hopefully with the contract given to Bidwell and this signing (which hopefully goes through), he's seen sense.

One of the reasons I started to come round to the idea of Lampard is I thought King might be more likely to listen to a 'name'. I've no idea if that is the case but it seems plausible to me.

We were trying to sign Browne in the summer who’s the same age as Grimes. I’ve said all along that we need more experienced players in the squad but I don’t think it’s true there’s a policy where we won’t even consider them.

 

[Kingokings204]

Yup. Saddle peddled it too I think

No loans and no oldies is some other myths fans have made up it seems.

I would imagine it's an anti Doug king thing

Yeah I guess we don’t have any loans so it’s not with basis to say Doug doesn’t like loans but instead of being anti loan which gets peddled on here he gave his reasons crystal clear at the fans forum…. Think of it for now currently also. We could sign a loan from the PL say Chelsea because of FL but it’s going to be an unproven young player probably a teenager. That’s really the last thing we need right now and then even if we did sign him then where does he play? And when? Chelsea aren’t going to send him to sit on the bench and make sub appearances. And even if he did play and did well we lose him in May anyway.

So I don’t think it’s anti loans it’s all the things they come with.

 

[SBAndy]

Gut feel is we’ll get Joe Worrall on loan next season now.

 

[clint van damme]

We were trying to sign Browne in the summer who’s the same age as Grimes. I’ve said all along that we need more experienced players in the squad but I don’t think it’s true there’s a policy where we won’t even consider them.

There's definitely been a change in recruitment policy and Saddkes has said as much. Of course, he's not always right, and he doesnt claim to be, but I definitely think there was,a shift, hopefully that's now going to be sorted.

 

[FergieTheFinisher]

Exactly! Gary McAllister was running games in the premier league at 35/36. Sometimes you need to invest in players for the here and now and not always think about sell-on value

Yes indeed. We signed him at 31 for £3 million back in the 1995/6. He was probably our best player for 4 seasons but we refused to give him a decent extension at 35. He then went to Liverpool on a free. One of the worst bits of business we ever did to let him go. He then played some 80 odd games for Liverpool and had some of his best career form.

So just shows if a player looks after himself, stays relatively injury free, mid thirties is not anything to be too concerned about. At 36/7 he was running the midfield of Liverpool!!

I think we should get plenty out of Grimes.

 

[Sky Blue Goblin]

Gut feel is we’ll get Joe Worrall on loan next season now.

Depends for my on if Darling goes now otherwise think we’ll go all out for him