[Albion] Pascal Groß the raumdeuter - officially leaves for Dortmund :(

[The Optimist]

I'm not a Lallana fan. We paid him a lot of money. He did a job. Left.

Showed his 'loyalty' by leaving because of family reasons, only to sign for Stains. Lives in Bmuff so hardly a huge journey here for training and games (tho had a place here I think).

Did we want him to stay?

 

[Munkfish]

I'm not a Lallana fan. We paid him a lot of money. He did a job. Left.

Showed his 'loyalty' by leaving because of family reasons, only to sign for Stains. Lives in Bmuff so hardly a huge journey here for training and games (tho had a place here I think).

Hardly a huge journey from Bmuff, are you sure?

 

[um bongo molongo]

I'm not a Lallana fan. We paid him a lot of money. He did a job. Left.

Showed his 'loyalty' by leaving because of family reasons, only to sign for Stains. Lives in Bmuff so hardly a huge journey here for training and games (tho had a place here I think).

If the rumours that we wanted him to stay were correct then he’s done us a favour. He can’t run anymore

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Hardly a huge journey from Bmuff, are you sure?

I do that form home games (well West Dorset) and it's a mammoth pain in the arse.

 

[Munkfish]

I do that form home games (well West Dorset) and it's a mammoth pain in the arse.

agreed, not sure what the poster was on about, clearly works for Sky Sports and Bmuff is just along the coast just a casual 90 miles on crap roads.

 

[phoenix]

I was thinking about making another inane musical reference but nobody wants to go over yesterday once more.

As my dear old Mum used to say, if witt was shit you would be constipated. But keep em coming very good made me smile

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I'm not a Lallana fan. We paid him a lot of money. He did a job. Left.

Showed his 'loyalty' by leaving because of family reasons, only to sign for Stains. Lives in Bmuff so hardly a huge journey here for training and games (tho had a place here I think).

Sandbanks to Southampton is an hour. Sandbanks to Lancing is about 2.5 hours.

 

[albionalex]

I'm not a Lallana fan. We paid him a lot of money. He did a job. Left.

Showed his 'loyalty' by leaving because of family reasons, only to sign for Stains. Lives in Bmuff so hardly a huge journey here for training and games (tho had a place here I think).

He lived with Jason Steele for the first two years here.

 

[cjd]

He lived with Jason Steele for the first two years here.

On a supposed 90k a week ? and he couldn't afford his own pad..wow. How tight fisted can you get ??

 

[B-right-on]

agreed, not sure what the poster was on about, clearly works for Sky Sports and Bmuff is just along the coast just a casual 90 miles on crap roads.

I've driven to Poole and back in a day dozens and dozens of times and for a lot less than £5 million a year. Unfortunately.

 

[Farehamseagull]

I've driven to Poole and back in a day dozens and dozens of times and for a lot less than £5 million a year. Unfortunately.

I was in Haywards Heath today. Took me two hours to drive there from my house situated between Southampton and Portsmouth this morning and then two and a half hours to get back in the afternoon. The traffic was awful, Chichester particularly shit. Both journeys outside of rush hour.

Last Wednesday I drove to Bournemouth it was an hour there and the same back, again outside of the rush hours.

Bournemouth to Brighton is a shit drive. It would be massively depressing to do it every day.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I was in Haywards Heath today. Took me two hours to drive there from my house situated between Southampton and Portsmouth this morning and then two and a half hours to get back in the afternoon. The traffic was awful, Chichester particularly shit. Both journeys outside of rush hour.

Last Wednesday I drove to Bournemouth it was an hour there and the same back, again outside of the rush hours.

Bournemouth to Brighton is a shit drive. It would be massively depressing to do it every day.

At least you'd have the delight of arriving in Sussex. The drive back to Bournemouth, now THAT would be massively depressing ...

 

[B-right-on]

I was in Haywards Heath today. Took me two hours to drive there from my house situated between Southampton and Portsmouth this morning and then two and a half hours to get back in the afternoon. The traffic was awful, Chichester particularly shit. Both journeys outside of rush hour.

Last Wednesday I drove to Bournemouth it was an hour there and the same back, again outside of the rush hours.

Bournemouth to Brighton is a shit drive. It would be massively depressing to do it every day.

£5,000,000 a year would make it more palatable.

 

[nickjhs]

I do that form home games (well West Dorset) and it's a mammoth pain in the arse.

After moving to Australia I often chuckle at what I thought was a long trip.

 

[Zeus]

He’s a club legend and his goal contributions will be hard af to replace but he was shit last half of last season, he’s old, and only going to get worse. £10m might prove to be great business.

 

[The Optimist]

He’s a club legend and his goal contributions will be hard af to replace but he was shit last half of last season, he’s old, and only going to get worse. £10m might prove to be great business.

The entire team was shit* in the second half of the season. I would read too much into an individual’s form in a struggling team. He’s never relied on pace so she might not be a big factor for him.

*shit feels a little harsh (although we definitely weren’t great).

 

[armchairclubber]

I do that form home games (well West Dorset) and it's a mammoth pain in the arse.

I can fully understand that it's no doubt a right pain in the arse

It's probably more of a pain in the arse if you've been travelling extensively with the demands of Premier and European football and you have to do it in your time off.

It's probably an even further pain in the arse if you're a little delicate and aged as a footballer and you've been told to rest your ankle / thigh / calf / hamstring / groin or other from injury or in recuperating. (OK, he can afford a chauffeur)

At the end of the day any extra travel is not going to help him, regardless of any loyalties.
(Sorry to derail the Gross thread though it's becoming difficult to identify his negative comments from Lallanas)

 

[Milano]

He’s a club legend and his goal contributions will be hard af to replace but he was shit last half of last season, he’s old, and only going to get worse. £10m might prove to be great business.

The guy is rightly a club legend. However at 33 and with only 1 year left on his contract then I feel that £10m is great business for us. He was far from 'shit' at the end of last season but he can't play in a 2 man CM in the EPL, he hasn't got the legs, this is amplified if his partner is WBG. He's a 10 or a 7 but we are now stacked in those positions.

The only moan I've ever had with Gross is I've always felt that his set pieces are a bit of a myth, he's not that good at them IMO, but that is IT, everything else about the guy has been top class.

We would have had 6 great years from Pascal AND we would turn a transfer profit!! I just hope we sell on August 31st so we get to say goodbye properly, ironicaly against ManU!!

 

[armchairclubber]

On a supposed 90k a week ? and he couldn't afford his own pad..wow. How tight fisted can you get ??

Wow.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

On a supposed 90k a week ? and he couldn't afford his own pad..wow. How tight fisted can you get ??

Why would he want his own place in or around Brighton when he wasn’t staying there all the time?

Better to share, bond and have the company of a teammate (and his family if Jason’s are down in Brighton too) than living alone, in either rented accommodation or a hotel which no matter how much money you have can be a very isolating experience.