[LOANED OUT] Andre Gray

Discussion in 'The Transfer List' started by Johnny Todd Sings, Jul 1, 2021.

  1. WatfordTalk

    WatfordTalk First Team

    Gosh I hope so.

    That's amazing haha, what a claim to fame
     
  2. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    #priceless
     
  3. davisp2

    davisp2 Reservist

    Done well. Now on 3 for the season. Well worth the £70k p.w
     
  4. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    I suppose Gray will say at least he is playing !
     
  5. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    Well we are probably paying 50k of that but hey ho.
     
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  6. davisp2

    davisp2 Reservist

    Best money we have spent all season to get rid
     
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  7. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    As always, a great strike per minute played. If only we’d given him a real chance to prove himself.
     
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  8. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Tidy finish first time from a great pass tbf.

    Didn’t have to think about what to do which is often his problem.
     
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  9. WatfordTalk

    WatfordTalk First Team

    Gino is drafting up a new 5 year deal as we speak, got to protect the resale value
     
  10. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Sadly he will reject us and join L*ton as a free agent before firing them to promotion next season at our expense, including a hat-trick home and away. It's written in the stars.
     
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  11. Chumlax

    Chumlax Squad Player

    From the Prem to the European Super League?
     
  12. LondonOrn

    LondonOrn Squad Player

    Gray not even on the bench at Blackpool for some reason.
     
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  13. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    Hamstring injury,went off in mid week.
     
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  14. folkestone orn

    folkestone orn Squad Player

    You still think Gray was worth £18 million? Wow
     
  15. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Wasn't it £12m plus add ons ? I remember being really excited at signing a proven prem goalscorer from a relegation rival.
    But then again I thought Dawson and Welbeck looked excellent signings at the time.
     
  16. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Welbeck could’ve been one of our best ever signings if we actually played him post lockdown.
     
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  17. folkestone orn

    folkestone orn Squad Player

    Was he even worth that?
     
  18. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Certainly not worth being our most paid player !

    I guess we brought Gray for his pace alongside Deeney but he really lacked in other areas of hie game .
     
  19. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player

    All these years later and people still think Gray had pace. Amazing.
     
  20. SkylaRose

    SkylaRose Administrator Staff Member

    Who was better? Gray or Steve Kabba?
     
  21. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    As what?
     
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  22. SkylaRose

    SkylaRose Administrator Staff Member

    At scoring goals. Sorry, should have clarified that.
     
  23. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    With hindsight certainly not, but at the time I thought it looked a good exciting deal.
     
  24. folkestone orn

    folkestone orn Squad Player

    Fair. I wasn't particularly excited by it, but did not expect him to be as **** at football as he was
     
  25. Manatleisure

    Manatleisure Squad Player

    Kept Delefeo warming the bench in some games under Gracia including the FA Cup semi final, so he couldn't have been that bad, unless you think Delefeo is bad as well. Despite having a weakish first touch, he scored a few important goals for us, and set up the winner at Wembley. We had 3 attackers and only room for 2. He just couldn't sustain a run in the team against our captain and a technically gifted player like Delefeo in keeping them out in the side in the end, particularly as he started to miss some good chances in games to score, and when Gracia left that was it, he didn't play/lost his form.

    Compared to the above, as mentioned, we've had players in our history, that have contributed next to nothing or nothing.

    And this last point isn't aimed at you, but what's the obsession with some folk with Gray whilst at another club? Its bizarre. If he isn't doing well, so what? Nothing new when players move, it either works out or it don't. Its like some were born yesterday, with no idea of how football can be sometimes.
     
  26. Manatleisure

    Manatleisure Squad Player

    It may have been, but unless we were in the same room as him on the day when signing, we wont know for sure.
     
  27. Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett Reservist

    Imagine the furore if Delefeou hadn't dug the team out of a hole in that semi final?
    Yes AG was involved in the winner , no doubt.
    But AG missed 2 sitters that day . Had he scored then Geri need not have had to be a super hero
     
  28. Manatleisure

    Manatleisure Squad Player

    That's one game where GD did particularly well. In some other games AG scored when other players didn't. Every game has 'moments' as Ruud Gullit used to say :).
     
  29. Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett Reservist

    Which games did Watford win 1-0 where AG scored ?
     
  30. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Everton at home was one ..

    Maybe the only one !!
     
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  31. Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett Reservist

    Ronaldoesque and worth every penny !
     
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  32. westbridgfordhornet

    westbridgfordhornet First Year Pro

    I think it is a related but alternative problem. Hamstrung, through a sheer lack of any semblance of talent.
     
  33. Chumlax

    Chumlax Squad Player

    You barefacedly make this remark whilst repeatedly inventing a footballer who has never played for us to use as an excuse for Gray's abysmal performances. Shocking.
     
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  34. Manatleisure

    Manatleisure Squad Player

    My spelling of the said footballer is how I prefer to type it. :)
     
  35. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    That isn’t how football works though. Plenty of good players have been benched in favour of lesser players. It’s like saying we must all think Sierralta is crap because he’s on the bench whilst Cathcart plays.

    And as for your last point - it’s entirely fair that Watford fans comment on a player who is officially contracted to the club and still costing a big old whack in wages. There’s nothing bizarre about it - apart from your continued protestations that he wasn’t a terrible, terrible signing in the face of tons of sensible opinions telling you otherwise and the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
     
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