10 | Jack Grealish - 2021/22 Performances

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samuelyeboah said:
to people saying "don't blame jack, blame the lack of a striker" - perhaps now is a good time to admit that this transfer window has been an utter disaster of poor decisions, in particular the decision to sign jack instead of a striker?
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That's not what we happened. It was never either/or.
 
Craig said:
No the 2 things he did were to do with having pace and a left foot. Not stopping and slowing it down every time. Foden still by far the best left sided attacker at the club and the only one that offers some width to our very narrow play.
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But he did them in a 2 minute spell then didn’t use his pace or left foot for the rest of the game.

Grealish and Foden can’t create if we have no striker.

A good through ball or cross is only as good as the runs being made and we don’t make them with this false 9 system.
 
Looked a bit out of his depth.
Nowt to worry about, sure he‘ll adapt quickly. But seemed a little overawed tonight.
 
FromPollockToSilva said:
That's not what we happened. It was never either/or.
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How do you know? maybe they thought that if they can sell players they can afford both grealish and a striker, but then didn't sell players so couldn't afford a striker. if they didn't sign grealish, we could have afforded a striker.

With a striker in the side we win the match today and vs southampton, easy as that.
 
samuelyeboah said:
to people saying "don't blame jack, blame the lack of a striker" - perhaps now is a good time to admit that this transfer window has been an utter disaster of poor decisions, in particular the decision to sign jack instead of a striker?
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In what universe did we decide to sign Grealish instead of a striker? Whether we signed Grealish or not, our valuation of Kane remains the same. We had the money to buy both players at our max prices based on their value to us. But our max price was not acceptable to them. It wouldn’t have been acceptable to them if we didn’t sign Grealish either. There is literally no link between the deals.
 
Don't forget he doesn't have a lot of experience in big CL games, he will learn a lot from this experience and even so I thought he was ok. A big time player who will get better and better, he will be very important when we get to the knock out stages.
 
WNRH said:
But he did them in a 2 minute spell then didn’t use his pace or left foot for the rest of the game.

Grealish and Foden can’t create if we have no striker.

A good through ball or cross is only as good as the runs being made and we don’t make them with this false 9 system.
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Not disagreeing with that about the system and think Grealish is a class act. What worries me is he makes us even more narrow out there and doesn’t attack his man quickly enough for us. Teams are so quick to get everyone behind the ball against us whenever we get our wide attacker one on one he needs to drive at them. My other concern is I don’t think he’ll get enough goals and assists from out there.
 
samuelyeboah said:
How do you know? maybe they thought that if they can sell players they can afford both grealish and a striker, but then didn't sell players so couldn't afford a striker. if they didn't sign grealish, we could have afforded a striker.

With a striker in the side we win the match today and vs southampton, easy as that.
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Except we only wanted one striker. Kane. We weren't going to pay 200m. So it doesn't matter what we signed Grealish for.
 
samuelyeboah said:
How do you know? maybe they thought that if they can sell players they can afford both grealish and a striker, but then didn't sell players so couldn't afford a striker. if they didn't sign grealish, we could have afforded a striker.

With a striker in the side we win the match today and vs southampton, easy as that.
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Kane was the only striker target, and we were priced out of the market. It was either Grealish and Kane or just Grealish
 
samuelyeboah said:
How do you know? maybe they thought that if they can sell players they can afford both grealish and a striker, but then didn't sell players so couldn't afford a striker. if they didn't sign grealish, we could have afforded a striker.

With a striker in the side we win the match today and vs southampton, easy as that.
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Again...you can't say that ! :)
 
Tricky_Trev said:
In what universe did we decide to sign Grealish instead of a striker? Whether we signed Grealish or not, our valuation of Kane remains the same. We had the money to buy both players at our max prices based on their value to us. But our max price was not acceptable to them. It wouldn’t have been acceptable to them if we didn’t sign Grealish either. There is literally no link between the deals.
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Again, what I am saying is we should have gone into the summer with the number 1 priority to be to get a striker, no matter the cost, then get grealish is price allows. we did it backwards, and couldn't afford a striker in the end.
 
WNRH said:
But he did them in a 2 minute spell then didn’t use his pace or left foot for the rest of the game.

Grealish and Foden can’t create if we have no striker.

A good through ball or cross is only as good as the runs being made and we don’t make them with this false 9 system.
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That’s a way of looking at it. But Grealish should also be returning 15/20 goals a season. He himself has a side full of creative players.
I don’t think even his biggest fan could argue that he’s anywhere near food enough at getting inside his fullback and scoring the back list goals that Sterling, Mahrez and Foden were scoring last season, Sane before that. Jesus this.

He’s got his qualities but to stay in this team he needs to up his production.
 
Jack was the best among these Kev-Jack-Sterling-Mahrez quartet..

But in overall our attack was very poor..
 
He's played a lot of games, and got no favours from that ref tonight.

My one minor observation is that at times he appears very casual. He needs to work harder when we press the opposition.
 
DATOIA said:
Considering Jack didn't have as much space and moments as Mahrez - I rated Jack above him but in overall all of them were very ver poor.

Cancelo was our best attacker today or Rodri maybe :DD
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I’m yet to be convinced that playing Grealish and Mahrez on either wing is a good idea. Both terrific at what they do, but very similar in slowing attacks down. We need one of the wings to offer directness too.
 
schfc6 said:
That’s a way of looking at it. But Grealish should also be returning 15/20 goals a season. He himself has a side full of creative players.
I don’t think even his biggest fan could argue that he’s anywhere near food enough at getting inside his fullback and scoring the back list goals that Sterling, Mahrez and Foden were scoring last season, Sane before that. Jesus this.

He’s got his qualities but to stay in this team he needs to up his production.
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He should be expected to get no more than the players in his position have got over the last 5 years which is 13-16 goals.

But then again he is a different player to those he is compared with. He is more of a creator and he creates a hell of a lot of chances for other players (most in the PL in open play so far) if the runs are being made which there isn’t because they’re all running the other way.
 
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