10 | Jack Grealish - 2021/22 Performances

[come-on-barney]

not being allowed to play his game

 

[Red Jericho]

I go to every home game and he has played really well. Poise and invention. Worth every penny. Gundo. Mahrez. KDB. Dinho all in their thirties. It's a sound investment.

Grealish is 26. In 4 years he'll be 30 and his injury record is not good. How is that a sound investment?

 

[Craig]

I go to every home game and he has played really well. Poise and invention. Worth every penny. Gundo. Mahrez. KDB. Dinho all in their thirties. It's a sound investment.

He’s obviously a very good footballer but doing what he’s done so far is nowhere near enough in a front 3 position for us without a striker. I’m sure if you told Mahrez he’d keep his place every week by showing a great first touch and playing 10 yard passes inside every time without ever really attacking his man or shooting he could do that with his eyes closed.

Sterling has been slated and I’m a million miles from his biggest fan especially from the left but Grealish isn’t doing much more effectively than he was for months in terms of output. Clearly he’s technically much better so looks the part and keeps the ball well.

 

[WestGorton]

He’s obviously a very good footballer but doing what he’s done so far is nowhere near enough in a front 3 position for us without a striker. I’m sure if you told Mahrez he’d keep his place every week by showing a great first touch and playing 10 yard passes inside every time without ever really attacking his man or shooting he could do that with his eyes closed.

Sterling has been slated and I’m a million miles from his biggest fan especially from the left but Grealish isn’t doing much more effectively than he was for months in terms of output. Clearly he’s technically much better so looks the part and keeps the ball well.

That's a different issue. Yes. We need a striker and that is effectively the problem for the whole squad. Not in every game but some. Against Brighton Grealish and Foden were superb. Yesterday with a man down it's a brick wall. Twice Grealish broke through and was hacked down with a bad tackle by the Palace cloggers.

 

[Agueroooo9320]

It’s almost certain that Pep has done a great deal of intricate things with aspects of our play to help suit Grealish and that he’s made a Grealish do to help suit us.

There are times where he’s asked Grealish to play very wide to help get Cancelo some space inside. There are times where he’s got Cancelo to stay in a certain zone to allow Bernardo and Grealish to work together up the left. There are times where Rodri shifts the play over to the right to shift the opposition defence over that way only for us to immediately seitch it back to the left where Grealish is in space. There will be a number of things that we don’t really notice as fans, compared to Pep’s level of detail.

The performance of the players is up to them to learn and understand, get right, be consistent with, and hopefully bring success. Pep has modestly said many times “don’t praise me, when the players step onto the pitch it’s them who get the results, not me”, and that works the other way too, it’s the players who don’t get the results.

Grealish has been good at times, average at others and looked a bit out of his depth at others. That’s all on him, his own ability, and his understand and application of what he’s learning from Pep… most of the time (not always!) our players are better with this after a year with Pep because Pep asks a fucking hell of a lot of his players. and playing under Pep and Pep’s tactics, learning what Pep wants, takes a long time to understand and get right.

sorry your assumption is all wrong. just a couple of games back pep was speaking to the media and saying how he does not know where Jack plays best in the team and that he has to figure out a position for him. safe to say he still has not figured out.

 

[Gundog’s Gundog]

Was I imagining him whilst at Villa being able to beat players with ease ? Now he can’t get past anyone and each game that passes he tries it less and less. Same happened with Mahrez and Raz.

We seem to get hold of top class players and coach the ability to beat a man out of them.

 

[simon23]

Looks lost a lot still, he is not a scorer of goals so i dont know why he is expected to do it now , it is a myth that everyone would score fourty goals in our team , that gets endlessly peddled on here , still it is early days and he will settle

I too was confused when people were saying this in the summer ..no matter whether you rate him or not, he has never looked like a goal scorer.

 

[Craig]

not being allowed to play his game

That's a different issue. Yes. We need a striker and that is effectively the problem for the whole squad. Not in every game but some. Against Brighton Grealish and Foden were superb. Yesterday with a man down it's a brick wall. Twice Grealish broke through and was hacked down with a bad tackle by the Palace cloggers.

That’s the issue playing for us though very few will have a go against us like Brighton did. He might have got doubled up on a lot for Villa but teams weren’t parking the bus every week so plenty of times when he’d get the ball he plenty of space to attack.

 

[WestGorton]

not being allowed to play his game

That’s the issue playing for us though very few will have a go against us like Brighton did. He might have got doubled up on a lot for Villa but teams weren’t parking the bus every week so plenty of times when he’d get the ball he plenty of space to attack.

It's early days and as I said before he is a buy for years to come. Not ten games. Players will move on and he Foden etc will be the core probably.

 

[Craig]

It's early days and as I said before he is a buy for years to come. Not ten games. Players will move on and he Foden etc will be the core probably.

Hopefully you’re right. He might evolve in to a great number 8 because he’s certainly got the ability but stuck out on the left against parked buses I can’t see much changing.