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Gray on SS news

Post by Burnley Ace » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:38 am

I only saw the last couple of moments but did he really say he needed a new challenge??

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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by fatboy47 » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:44 am

Like Alexander of old, he sighed for fresh worlds to conquer.
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by Rick_Muller » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:46 am

He's gone now, not interested apart from when Watford get relegated and have to find someone to take him off their hands for cheap, but they won't find anyone willing to pay approx £100k/week...
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by CombatClaret » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:47 am

Starts from the bench today.
Will be surprised If he doesn't get a run on regardless of score.

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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by Blyclaret » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:47 am

Dre has spoken
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by Burnleyareback2 » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:51 am

Forget about Dre
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by Quickenthetempo » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:52 am

It will cost us money in the add ons in they get relegated one would think.

Obviously if it's between us and them then send the blighters down.

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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by dougcollins » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:56 am

The only time I'll worry about what Andre Gray is doing is when we play Watford.
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Post by beddie » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:59 am

Gray supposedly talking in my national newspaper says, "people wondered why Burnley were paying £9 million for a championship player, the next thing we knew we'd won the championship and I was top scorer and player of the year in the league" so it's nothing new. "People raise their eyebrows but that's part of football". Interesting views on his wages, this paper is saying "on or about £55k per week." I still thank him for being a big part of a great team getting us out of the championship but now we move on. I wish him well at Watford, apart from against us of course.

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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by Firthy » Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:23 pm

Pity he didn't conquer the premier league last season before he decided to look for a new challenge.
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by cutsy123 » Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:24 pm

How is watford a new challenge. We are superior
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by bfccrazy » Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:28 pm

He's a Watford player now and will be saying what Watford fans will want to hear.

Same as when we signed him ..... Would have been a bit peeved if he said then "I just fancied a bit more money for an easier job than I have now .... "

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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by CnBtruntru » Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:29 pm

Good luck to the lad except against us and it is a new challenge he has to decide Black or White Range Rover :D

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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by cutsy123 » Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:36 pm

Prick if u ask me. All about the money not a challenge
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by TractorFace » Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:17 pm

That's 99.9% of professional footballers.
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by HelloHiGoodbye » Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:22 pm

Some weird comments on here. Course moving to Watford's a new challenge. How isn't it? Just because a Burnley fan might consider Watford weaker than us doesn't mean Gray moving there isn't a new challenge. He could move to Barrowford Celtic and it'd be a new challenge.
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by dsr » Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:23 pm

Would this be the new challenge of carrying a much heavier pay packet? That's the sort of challenge most footballers (and everyone else, to be fair) go for.

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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by Burnley Ace » Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:53 pm

HelloHiGoodbye wrote:Some weird comments on here. Course moving to Watford's a new challenge. How isn't it? Just because a Burnley fan might consider Watford weaker than us doesn't mean Gray moving there isn't a new challenge. He could move to Barrowford Celtic and it'd be a new challenge.
Now that he is at Watford it's a new challenge, I was commenting on his perceived desire for a new challenge which led him to look to move from Burnley.

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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by Rick_Muller » Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:59 pm

dsr wrote:Would this be the new challenge of carrying a much heavier pay packet? That's the sort of challenge most footballers (and everyone else, to be fair) go for.
To be fair, not everyone else perceives money as a measure of success and happiness.
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by 3putt » Sat Aug 12, 2017 2:21 pm

cutsy123 wrote:Prick if u ask me. All about the money not a challenge
A footballer moving for money- surely not. :roll:

Good player for us, got us back to the Prem and did pretty well last season.

Good luck to him.
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by BennyD » Sat Aug 12, 2017 9:33 pm

Who?
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sun Aug 13, 2017 1:14 am

Great player for us. Vital to where we are. Moved for more money? And? Why does anyone think he left Luton for Brentford, for us?

Only a special kind of envious idiot would think that someone career driven and successful shouldnt leave for a contract that will set them up for life regardless of performance.

I am sure them people have never left their employer for a different challenge and more chance of more money...
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by tim_noone » Sun Aug 13, 2017 1:19 am

Money sucks.
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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by If it be your will » Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:36 am

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Re: Gray on SS news

Post by FactualFrank » Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:37 am

Not many players percentage wise play football because they love football. They play because of the money. Gray is a prime example. Had we paid him stupid money he'd have stayed. There is no 'new challenge'. He goes to the club that offers him the most money. Nothing about football.

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