August 5 Social Zone: The fallout continues to Jack Grealish’s Man City move

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Fans have their say on £100m deal, while Christian Eriksen makes an emotional return to the Inter Milan training ground.

SOCCER: I could read reactions to the Jack Grealish move all day. This is my current favourite from Man City fans. He's moving to the Etihad to win... the Community Shield.

And he will win the community shield in 3 days, a trophy he could NOT win his entire life??, we will show the football world that Man City is a place where you can guarentee you win silverware in days or weeks, watch Grealish????
— Abdikadir Ak?? (@AbdikadirDeck) August 5, 2021

SOCCER: Turns out Villa have got the better player in Ings anyway.

Danny Ings' goals and assists directly won Southampton 7 wins (21 points) last season.

Jack Grealish' goals and assists directly won Aston Villa 2 wins (6 points) in the same spell.

Bailey won 6 (18 points), Buendia won 13. (39 points) @VillaAnalytics @TyBracey #AVFC
— Guy Poxon (@GuyPoxon) August 5, 2021

SOCCER: Oh, and they also had/have a better player in Ashley Young.

For Aston Villa,

Ashley Young : 191 appearances 96 G+A

Jack Grealish : 228 appearances 74 G+A
— Chirag Sharma™ (@chiragSharmaUtd) August 5, 2021

SOCCER: Mate, everyone hates Villa.

It wouldn't surprise me if Big nose Southgate wasn't the one who told Grealish he needs to play for a bigger club to get in the England side.

Southgate hates Villa. #AVFC
— Villa Mad. (@VillaMad3) August 5, 2021

SOCCER: Leicester City's Wesley Fofana looks set to be on the sidelines for a lengthy period after fracturing his fibula in the Foxes' friendly against Villarreal.

Why on earth are players tackling like this in a pre season ‘friendly’???

Get well soon Fofana ? pic.twitter.com/aFbuihqlXz
— matt ???????? (@thfcmxtt) August 4, 2021

SOCCER: This is a lovely moment as Christian Eriksen returns to the training ground.

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Eriksen ritorna al Suning Training Centre ? pic.twitter.com/jp6CWqVnAV
— Inter ??? (@Inter) August 4, 2021

SOCCER: Boca beat River Plate 4-1 on penalties in the last 16 of the Copa Argentina on Wednesday evening, thanks, in part, to penalties like this from Braian Romero.

El insólito penal que falló Romero en la definición por penales entre Boca y River. #SuperclásicoEnTyCSports. pic.twitter.com/ijdtfaEP98
— TyC Sports (@TyCSports) August 5, 2021

RUGBY LEAGUE: The only sensible option with two of the best teams missing.

We can announce this morning that the tournament will be postponed until 2022. We have done everything in our power to stage the tournament this year, but it is not to be. ?

Remain supportive of the tournament, the teams, the players and most of all our amazing sport. ❤️
— Rugby League World Cup 2021 (@RLWC2021) August 5, 2021

RUGBY LEAGUE: But it's Twitter so obviously not everyone agrees.

Completely ridiculous. You’ve allowed yourselves to be bullied by the hypocritical ARL and NZRL
— Peter Gallacher (@Pete_Owlsfan) August 5, 2021

If we think we can compete with football then we’re stupid, an amazing opportunity to gain neutrals out of the window simply cos we let Australia and NZ control us
— Matthew ? (@matthewxsutton) August 5, 2021

Rugby league is a laughing stock
— Nathan Chapman (@NathanChaps90) August 5, 2021

OLYMPICS: The USA men's 4x100m relay team failed to qualify for the final of the event on Thursday morning and Carl Lewis was not impressed.

The USA team did everything wrong in the men's relay. The passing system is wrong, athletes running the wrong legs, and it was clear that there was no leadership. It was a total embarrassment, and completely unacceptable for a USA team to look worse than the AAU kids I saw .
— Carl Lewis (@Carl_Lewis) August 5, 2021

TENNIS: You can't put Serena Williams in a box. Oh, apparently you can.