10 | Jack Grealish - 2022/23 Performances

[Bluesince1979]

I don't know, I mean we laughed at the rags for what they paid for Sancho, so...you know, I really don't know but I guess that's just me.

Whos better sancho or grealish

 

[kye1991]

It is not only about his personal end product - it is about the team's end product and what he brings to that.

I wonder if this was ever said about sterling

 

[Bluesince1979]

Kind of my point, fans are right to expect elite performances week in week out when a player demands such wages.

In our team who puts in proper stand out, elite performances regular? KDB?
The rest are just high quality players, playing a part, in a high quality team. And i think grealish fits that bill

 

[kye1991]

Players are allowed to leave for less money than the release clause, it's just upto the selling club to decide that. If villa was adamant it was 100m or nothing then we should have walked away. We walked away from hazard because of agents fees, cucurella just the other week. And sanction a 100m pound fee for jack it's madness

Its amazing how many fans, and worryingly city fans on here, continuously quote “he’s not worth £100m”. £100m was his release clause, not his worth. Its what we HAD to pay to get him

Prick that sits near me continuously quotes the £100m figure whilst throwing in ,”for £100m he should be dribbling past 4 players and bagging. Should be scoring 25 goals a season”.

Its fucking painful to listen to it

 

[schfc6]

In our team who puts in proper stand out, elite performances regular? KDB?
The rest are just high quality players, playing a part, in a high quality team. And i think grealish fits that bill

Pretty much all our elite players. I’m not going to name them, as it’s pointless.
Grealish is yet to earn his stripes.

Fans are entitled to expect match winning performances from Grealish. To date, he’s not done that.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Players are allowed to leave for less money than the release clause, it's just upto the selling club to decide that. If villa was adamant it was 100m or nothing then we should have walked away. We walked away from hazard because of agents fees, cucurella just the other week. And sanction a 100m pound fee for jack it's madness

Not our money. Money in football stopped being sensible many years ago. Not sure why fees bother anyone

50m for full backs, £80m world records for fat shite centre halves, money paid for players is literally irrelevant. Too many people hung up on grealish’s fee .

 

[kye1991]

Not our money. Money in football stopped being sensible many years ago. Not sure why fees bother anyone

50m for full backs, £80m world records for fat shite centre halves, money paid for players is literally irrelevant. Too many people hung up on grealish’s fee .

It's not our football club either, I certainly don't own a percentage but it doesn't mean no one can express an opinion about it.

Transfer fees and wages either represent value or they dont. It's important to spend money wisely for any football club or business. There's a club down the road that have spent a shit ton of money on transfers and wages and they've spent it stupidly and look where it's got them.

Look at how Barcelona have spent money and see where it's got them.

This is why people have an opinion of fees and wages and it's far from irrelevant.

 

[Agueroooo9320]

Players are allowed to leave for less money than the release clause, it's just upto the selling club to decide that. If villa was adamant it was 100m or nothing then we should have walked away. We walked away from hazard because of agents fees, cucurella just the other week. And sanction a 100m pound fee for jack it's madness

why would we walk away when we value him at 100 mil or more?

 

[kye1991]

why would we walk away when we value him at 100 mil or more?

So now the club do value him at 100m or more?

You know that goes against the forums ' that's not what he's worth, thats what his release clause was' rhetoric.

Anyone who values jack grealish at 100m or even more is on drugs.

 

[Agueroooo9320]

So now the club do value him at 100m or more?

You know that goes against the forums ' that's not what he's worth, thats what his release clause was' rhetoric.

Anyone who values jack grealish at 100m or even more is on drugs.

so you are of the opinion the entire football management team including the board at our club are on drugs?

 

[kye1991]

so you are of the opinion the entire football management team including the board at our club are on drugs?

I'm of the opinion who ever sanctioned the 100m transfer fee, reported 30m agents fee, and a 6 year contract at 300k a week was at the time.

 

[Agueroooo9320]

I'm of the opinion who ever sanctioned the 100m transfer fee, reported 30m agents fee, and a 6 year contract at 350k a week was at the time.

there is no one person who does that. there are probably about 100 people who work as a team. we are not run like the rags where few people make decisions on a whim. we are run by statistics and financial analysts and scientists and scouts and managers who work together.

 

[kye1991]

there is no one person who does that. there are probably about 100 people who work as a team. we are not run like the rags where few people make decisions on a whim. we are run by statistics and financial analysts and scientists and scouts and managers who work together.

And yet someone will have the final say. Or do you think all 100 of these people have access to the club's coffers to send money to other football clubs.

Scouts and scientists don't negotiate transfers or player contracts.

 

[RayCTID]

We have overpaid for Grealish but he'll probably get his chance if we do decide to sell Bernardo now (dependant on Barcelona coughing up)

 

[King Jay]

Whos better sancho or grealish

If u laugh about Sancho costing the clowns from the other side 70M then u should laugh about us paying 100M for Grealish. Especially when the former is younger and has a higher upside - but whatever .

 

[Keeper!]

so you are of the opinion the entire football management team including the board at our club are on drugs?

I totally get you love everything Jack Grealish but trying to defend the 100m fee is plain silly.

At 100m he was crazily overpriced, that's a fact but he is a player our manger wanted, so the club went and got him.

But the fact remains he is simply not a 100m level footballer.

When paying that much you need to be a game changer, capable of winning a game with a moment of brilliance, I am sorry but Grealish is not at that level, very good player but not anywhere near a worldie for me.

 

[Lauz9888]

Pep and the club's decision-makers wanted him. They were willing to spend 100m on him, in a Summer where they were also looking to spend even more on Kane.

He was a luxury signing in the sense that he wasn't really plugging a gap. We weren't assessing alternatives or lining up who we'd get if we couldn't get him. We would have done without.

But - a player Pep loves, with a release clause that was due to expire. It was a case of spending 100m last summer or potentially never getting him, because he wouldn't have forced a move from Villa and their owners are rich enough to refuse.

In that context it was hard for him to land with a splash. The fans were crying out for a striker, not an inverted winger.

But, he's been learning his role - which is quite different to what was expected of him at Villa - and he's been improving. Pep still loves him. The dressing room loves him. And he's getting the game time he needs to grow more into the side.

I'll judge his value when he leaves. Who knows what might happen in the interim.

 

[jaiguruKun]

I thought he played well enough on Sunday. People say he doesn't take enough risks. He doesn't need to due to the quality of the players around him.

 

[radcliffe1309]

Pep and the club's decision-makers wanted him. They were willing to spend 100m on him, in a Summer where they were also looking to spend even more on Kane.

He was a luxury signing in the sense that he wasn't really plugging a gap. We weren't assessing alternatives or lining up who we'd get if we couldn't get him. We would have done without.

But - a player Pep loves, with a release clause that was due to expire. It was a case of spending 100m last summer or potentially never getting him, because he wouldn't have forced a move from Villa and their owners are rich enough to refuse.

In that context it was hard for him to land with a splash. The fans were crying out for a striker, not an inverted winger.

But, he's been learning his role - which is quite different to what was expected of him at Villa - and he's been improving. Pep still loves him. The dressing room loves him. And he's getting the game time he needs to grow more into the side.

I'll judge his value when he leaves. Who knows what might happen in the interim.

Yes fair points, the fans were crying out for a striker at the time and to a lesser extent a LB (still do) so to splash 100m on Jack for me was simply unnecessary in my opinion, people point to the fact that we won the Prem with him and that's true but we all know what Pep and the owners really don't we... and sadly will never know if could have achieved that with the top Striker in the side against Madrid, but this season......well its different isn't it ?? :)
This is Jack's chance to shine, he needs to take it now !!

 

[oldius]

We bought Haaland, Alvarez and Grealish for 166m.
We bought Bernardo, Gundo and Torres for less than the price of Pogba.

Sometimes we will pay more than expected and other times less.

If you can get into your head that this is a team game, a long-term project, and that the club is a combination of sporting and business, then the fee for Jack is immaterial. All that matters, is the business and sporting achievement - and we deliver, year after year.