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David Moyes' Stupid Face said:
Relatively happy with the deal, but can't help think we would have been better off keeping Maja, even if it was just until summer.

1. Maja's goals:games record in League One is better than Grigg's - equal to Grigg's best ever season, and he's only 19.

2. If media reports are to be believed, the fees received for Maja and paid for Grigg are similar (£.5m rising to £3.5ish).

3. If Maja stayed and had a good season, and we got promoted, there's a chance we could have convinced him to stay, and he would have continued to improve. Grigg is, most likely, already as good as he will ever be.

4. Grigg will only be useful for one season (league one) as he's shown numerous times he can't cut it in the championship, so even if we lost Maja in summer for nothing, same difference.

5. Maja's wages for the rest of the season would have been considerably lower than Grigg's as he was still on his first professional contract. We were paying him peanuts.

6. Grigg will miss the first few games through injury, Maja wouldn't have.

Granted we can potentially recover a fee for Grigg in future whereas that wasn't a certainty with Josh. But given all of the above, it seems to me it would have made far more sense to just hang on to Maja and see where we stood in the summer.

Nothing against Grigg obviously and he'll get my full backing. Just seems the owners dropped the ball on this one a bit. It was always going to be a learning curve though.
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Maja could have stayed until the end of the season but he wanted to leave. Forcing him to stay beyond the window may have backfired. We'd have been mental not to cash in now. Also, Maja didn't play well for the team. I can see us scoring more without him tbh as we're now well set up for goals to come from everywhere which is far better than having to rely on one man. The squad looks better now without Maja than it looked with it in. Doubt Grigg will even need the same turnover of goals. But is a natural goal scorer at this level so I'm happy as a pig in **** without Maja. I'm well over him.

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Must be a little bonus for Grigg knowing he was first choice and Donald grafted and grafted to make it happen. Often in the past we've ended up with third or fourth choices or worse and it's showed. We're much more picky now thanks to Ross having a clear vision.
 
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Just remembered that for pretty much all my life up until a few years ago I thought that the lyrics of the original version of the Will Grigg song were ''my lovers got no money, he's got his trombolise", like ok he might be broke but no worries he's fashioned some kind of godamn mutant trombone and he's going to busk his arse off with it.
 
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Just remembered that for pretty much all my life up until a few years ago I thought that the lyrics of the original version of the Will Grigg song were ''my lovers got no money, he's got his trombolise", like ok he might be broke but no worries he's fashioned some kind of godamn mutant trombone and he's going to busk his arse off with it.
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Probably would have kept that nugget to myself mate...
 
Good interview with him on Sky Sports, don’t know if it’s from a SAFC.com.

Alludes to the size of the club, the fact as soon as the interest was known he was clear he wanted to come and the key thing, how much we made it clear we wanted him here was a big draw.

Doesn’t surprise me to hear all that, but still good to hear.
 
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