Gray joins Bayer Leverkusen

[HighPeakFox]

7 minutes ago, Babylon said:

Are we going to get this every single week? Why would anyone care what he does, he never did it here in 100's of opportunities under numerous managers. 

Because he resides in out hearts as much as Nigel Pearson does... 

[foxinsocks]

anyone know what the wages are for gray at leverkeusen?

[Foxxed]

1 hour ago, Babylon said:

Are we going to get this every single week? Why would anyone care what he does, he never did it here in 100's of opportunities under numerous managers. 

It honestly fascinates me.

 

Gray wanted to succeed. Our coaches wanted him to succeed. Our managers wanted him to succeed. All except the most ardent knew he had talent but something wasn't clicking. A few posters said someone should sit him down and have a chat with him. I'm sure we tried his. Nonetheless, he flies over to Germany, the plane touches tarmac, Leverkussen's coaches say four words to him, and now he's tearing up a top European league. The fatalistic element amuses me but the transformation, albeit only 50 minutes played, is a sight to behold.

 

Edited 22 February 2021 by Foxxed

[Babylon]

58 minutes ago, Foxxed said:

It honestly fascinates me.

 

Gray wanted to succeed. Our coaches wanted him to succeed. Our managers wanted him to succeed. All except the most ardent knew he had talent but something wasn't clicking. A few posters said someone should sit him down and have a chat with him. I'm sure we tried his. Nonetheless, he flies over to Germany, the plane touches tarmac, Leverkussen's coaches say four words to him, and now he's tearing up a top European league. The fatalistic element amuses me but the transformation, albeit only 50 minutes played, is a sight to behold.

Or teams 10th down in the Bundesliga aren't actually upto much cop and he's found his level?

 

I'm afraid consistency was the issue, we've all seen him do some lovely stuff, it's doing it regularly that matters and you have to do it when starting games. It was fairly easy to look bright for him coming on for a sub even for us. It fell on its arse when he started a match and wasn't up against players tiring. 

[KingsX]

3 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

Because he resides in out hearts as much as Nigel Pearson does... 

 

          

 

 

[HighPeakFox]

4 minutes ago, KingsX said:

 

          

 

 

moi?

[KingsX]

1 minute ago, HighPeakFox said:

moi?

if I could draw a cello bow worth a damn, there wouldn't be any doubt.

 

Honestly, incendiary comments so early on a Monday morning 

[STUHILL]

I want him to do well. Anyone who doesn't, is just weird.

 

Not sure I can be bothered hearing about him every week though 

 

We all know his strengths and his weaknesses. I think Bayer will have very similar thoughts to us come the end of the season though

 

Good luck to you Demi! 

[HighPeakFox]

1 minute ago, KingsX said:

if I could draw a cello bow worth a damn, there wouldn't be any doubt.

 

Honestly, incendiary comments so early on a Monday morning 

If you knew what my surname was, you'd find it even funnier  

[Babylon]

22 minutes ago, STUHILL said:

I want him to do well. Anyone who doesn't, is just weird.

Anyone who wishes him failure maybe. I don't think most give two sh**s about him now one way or the other. 

 

I certainly don't and have zero interest in weekly updates when he does something of note. 

[KingsX]

1 minute ago, Babylon said:

Anyone who wishes him failure maybe. I don't think most give two sh**s about him now one way or the other. 

 

I certainly don't and have zero interest in weekly updates when he does something of note. 

 

If you truly had "zero interest" you wouldn't be in this thread

 

I have some interest in several of the guys who have moved on ... but would be more than satisfied with updates in the Ex-players thread, as opposed to a dedicated thread in the City forum.

[ARM1968]

Yeah, I mean I’ve become quite happy over the last few games seeing Mahrez’s sour little gurn back on TV. Lovely. 

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

I'd actually quite like to know of his achievements and failures over the coming season. I might look it up elsewhere or I might come to the demari grey thread here. If I didn't want to know about him I certainly wouldn't be clicking on this thread. I bet I regularly check less than .5% of the threads on this forum, so I'll just briefly go to the other 99.5% to let everyone know how little I care, that'll be a fun afternoon. 

[Babylon]

30 minutes ago, KingsX said:

 

If you truly had "zero interest" you wouldn't be in this thread

There are a certain number of things I might find interesting, such as comments about his time here etc. But weekly updates of performance.... no. 

[Lambert09]

The funny thing is that his best football for us was probably his last period playing for the club. Arguably our top performer post lockdown.

 

I think Brendan would have preferred him to Under but understandably he wanted more game time. I’ll be very interested to see if he can finally unlock that potential. Ive also got a soft sport for Leverkusen 

[majaco]

4 hours ago, Babylon said:

Are we going to get this every single week? Why would anyone care what he does, he never did it here in 100's of opportunities under numerous managers. 

I'm interested.  I'll click on the thread.

[ThurmastonFox]

Anyone following SfE know if he’s able to get the Leverkusen team before it’s issued? And what a coincidence the account went protected around the same time Gray went. My two heroes abandoning me...

[Dahnsouff]

It is interesting to see how he does, as if he does well at Leverkusen, what is different? There could be lessons that as a club we could learn. 

[alanf0x]

Noticed that our Twitter team announcer has been quiet since Gray has left the club...

[The whole world smiles]

5 minutes ago, alanf0x said:

Noticed that our Twitter team announcer has been quiet since Gray has left the club...

In what scenario does a young gifted inner city footballer from Birmingham befriend a middle aged, Internet troll from Enderby? 

 

I know people like to blame gray for everything but The leak will have been from the media team or the press as they get the team an hour early. 

[Lambert09]

14 minutes ago, alanf0x said:

Noticed that our Twitter team announcer has been quiet since Gray has left the club...

It’s no coincidence that his agent is also Martin Cockshore 

[tylesta]

1 minute ago, Lambert09 said:

It’s no coincidence that his agent is also Martin Cockshore 

Sean's many many accounts

[Golden Fox]

On 22/02/2021 at 14:32, majaco said:

I'm interested.  I'll click on the thread.

I click on the link thinking there might be some news that I had missed... but turns out not.

 

I think it might be time to merge this into the "Ex Players - They used to play for us" thread.

[Buce]

21 minutes ago, The whole world smiles said:

In what scenario does a young gifted inner city footballer from Birmingham befriend a middle aged, Internet troll from Enderby? 

 

I know people like to blame gray for everything but The leak will have been from the media team or the press as they get the team an hour early. 

 

Has anyone ever seen them in a room together?

 

Maybe Gray is SFE.

Edited 25 February 2021 by Buce

[ClaphamFox]

28 minutes ago, The whole world smiles said:

In what scenario does a young gifted inner city footballer from Birmingham befriend a middle aged, Internet troll from Enderby? 

 

I know people like to blame gray for everything but The leak will have been from the media team or the press as they get the team an hour early. 

Sean from Enderby used to regularly - and accurately - reveal line-ups on the morning of games. He wasn't getting that information from somebody who found out two hours before kick-off.

Edited 25 February 2021 by ClaphamFox