I dont know what are the real positives about him.
for 100m, I am sure Pep expected more. he wont say front of the press, he is clever. he might even say the opposite.
Says it all his two PL goals came at City-Norwich 5-0 and City-Leeds 7-0. I go out and risk it we would have won without his goals these games.
his only CL goal came at 6-3 win vs Leipzig. quite similar thing to above.
his last PL goal was in December when we trashed Leeds by 7.
his last PL assist was in October 2021.
Sterling would be murdered for something like this.
I dont want to see him in the front three if he cannot put up the numbers required. we have crucial games here, Pool 2x, Atletico 2x, possibly Real M. 2x, Wolves away, WHU away.
I do wonder how many he will really start of these. this week he started neither. did come on as sub, did not do well today, while he got at least two yellows for Atletico. wonder if only for this perspective he should start as Atletico players seemingly hate him for some reason and try to get a reaction out of him we might use this as a a chance to get a red card for them. or fuck this idea and start someone who might get us a goal or assist.
business end of the season, you need players who will get the job done. lets be honest if he did this at Villa last season we would have not touched him. I still think we fucked this up big time for 100m.
chances are he will never get close to David Silva, KDB, Yaya Toure in terms of added value, importance to the team etc. which is a level above than what the likes of Sterling, Jesus, Mahrez can add but Grealish is far from that level as well imo as the stats and this season can prove it.
my Villa mate friend does not stop talking about City not using him like he has to be used.
I dont know whats that but I tell him this is not mediocre Villa, here he wont have the licence to fuck around and create chances vs rubbish teams who do not sit back because its Villa they play against.
if we had the kind of response from teams in terms of mentality, tactical set up that Villa was facing last year we would win every game 7-0 and guys like Jesus and Sterling who have problem with being clinical would end the season on 30 goals each front of Mo Salad.
I am still waiting for 1 game what is taken by the neck by Grealish and he wins it for us. Bernardo did have this few times this season, KDB too big games included, even Mahrez, sterling, Jesus, Foden certainly few times. Gundo did it quite a few PL games last season scoring 13 goals in total.
Seriously Grealish yet to do it, and even if its a Watford game, I would be happy to see it finally.
