A lot of truth in what your saying but Pep still loves individual flair and I would say encourages it.
KDB a clear example, KDB still takes risks with his passes, plays the percentage game and often loses the ball, does Pep try and stop him doing that? Not from what I see.
"Grealish has been awful for England"Foden is 6/7 times the player for City than he is England. So much so that there’s english fans, journalists & Ex Pros that wouldn’t have Foden as an automatic pick.
Grealish has been awful for England. His career mediocre at Villa.
This was his big change and he’s not taking it. De Bruyne, Foden, Sane, Silva, Mahrez, all maverick’s of the game, all thrived under Pep. This idea that Pep is stunting him is as silly as all the other excuses put forwards.
Love the lad or not, fact is, he’s been a total disappointment. And I honestly like the lad.
Perhaps it’s just maybe time we didn’t blame the best manager in football history for Grealish being a pretty decent but ultimately limited footballer.
I disagree I think his lack of football intelligence is his biggest issue. Takes far far FAR too long to make up his mind and often makes the wrong decision."Woeful football intelligence."
Grealish has been underwhelming but saying he has woeful football intelligence is plain wrong, he would be nowhere near this club if that was the case, that's a necessity here.
It's starting to come down to confidence and self belief and that's a worry, he is not the cocky, arrogant prick most of us thought he was, in fact I would say the opposite, he seems a decent, humble and somewhat sensitive guy and that may be that's the issue.
When Grealish is at his best he is angry, aggressive but for much of his time with us he looks passive and far too calm.
Lets hope he has a good solid WC and comes back in a positive manner because if he doesn't this could become a problem for all concerned.
That's his confidence and sadly it's clearly low.I disagree I think his lack of football intelligence is his biggest issue. Takes far far FAR too long to make up his mind and often makes the wrong decision.
How awful for you.Unfortunately, I’m at the stage when the ball goes to him you know nothing is going to come of it.
Not really trying to defend Grealish but if you watch Foden for most of the season when he’s on the left he’s hardly playing like a maverick when playing on the left. Case in point being at Anfield where he constantly refused to take on an old emergency fullback in Milner who 12 months previous he’d absolutely terrorised. Difficult to not think there must be something in it that they’re being told to retain possession at all costs even when one on one with defendersFoden is 6/7 times the player for City than he is England. So much so that there’s english fans, journalists & Ex Pros that wouldn’t have Foden as an automatic pick.
Grealish has been awful for England. His career mediocre at Villa.
This was his big change and he’s not taking it. De Bruyne, Foden, Sane, Silva, Mahrez, all maverick’s of the game, all thrived under Pep. This idea that Pep is stunting him is as silly as all the other excuses put forwards.
Love the lad or not, fact is, he’s been a total disappointment. And I honestly like the lad.
Perhaps it’s just maybe time we didn’t blame the best manager in football history for Grealish being a pretty decent but ultimately limited footballer.
He actually looked miles better than most when he came on against Italy a few weeks ago. He went roaming all over the pitch and was getting on the ball and committing defenders"Grealish has been awful for England"
Simply not true. 90% of his games in England shirt he was very good and several times MOTM.
Great vs Belgium Iceland Romania Czech... Changed the game vs Germany twice. Excellent against Hungary home and away in WCQ. And so on. Perhaps only lukewarm disappointing one was against Italy but it was a very dead event given SG tried new tactics.
You are not an England fan perhaps. I watched every England game in the past 2 years at least twice and I know what I am talking about.
He has been playing well for a while, especially against against the rags, but yesterday he seemed to revert to type a bit. Just need him to up his finished product. He definitely needs to be more direct and start having more shots, he never seems to back himself and have a shot. I don't think we can start saying that it's all Pep's fault because he his asking players to be more safe in their play. Pep has never struck me as that sort of coach.I really want Jack to do well but he was really poor yesterday. Poor decision making and no end product. He is clearly low on confidence and scared to take the same risks our other creative players do.
Don't judge him when it's 11vs10no player should be judged as having a bad performance yesterday.
We played 10 against 11 for 70 minutes and still controlled the game.
No negativity needed.
I disagree. He's easily been our best player all season.He seems to be the only player in the team who people are perfectly fine with when he plays with no courage. If any of the rest of our front line over the last seven or eight years played like this then they'd be getting universally criticised.
For some reason, every time Jack fails to spot a runner or simply refuses to attempt an incisive pass, then it gets excused as him "controlling the game." Not for me. Playing in first gear the entire time isn't controlling a game. We have plenty of other players who actually do that because they have the ability to vary their tempo.
Part of me feels bad for him because he's better than he's shown for us so far but he's never been as good as some people claimed he is. There's an expectation around him and a bizarre cult like following which I don't really think is based on what he can do with a football.
That leads to all this prolonged back and forth where people are either overly critical of him or overzealous in their defence of him. But the bottom line is that when you strip away all the bullshit, he's just not a very effective or important player for us.
I disagree. He's easily been our best player all season.