10 | Jack Grealish - 2021/22 Performances

[kaz7]

You can't staunchly defend Sterling every chance you get and then have a go at Grealish for going to ground easily

Yes i can , grealish is a master at it , it is his thing, hated him doing it against us and hate him doing us for us , same as i hate the rags and dippers doing it , no need, raz is often running at speed , there is a difference generally speaking . Remain upright , dont go over on the spot every time a player goes up to you , play with the ball, pass it , stop slowing everything to a stop , that is not us , i honestly dont think he has it in him to play our way

 

[simon23]

Martinez was at Arsenal from 2012-2020.

My point was that everyone Jack plays with talks about him in similar terms. They have a bunch of other teammates they could heap the same praise on, but they don't.

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on Cole. I thought he was magic. Even by the time he was at Villa and well past his best, his talent was undeniable.

again its called bias and bigging your team mates up...nothing wrong witht hat and its to be expected but in terms of validity it means nothing....why dont they do it to others.....cause they dont get asked about others as the media dont care....Grealish is a dream for the media in every way...he is a marketing dream, other payers arent

we are going to have to disagree on cole....a good player with flashes of brilliance but nothing to suggest anything above that......Look we had Balotelli - all the talent in the world but wasnt great throughout his career.....purely down to application and ability to handle the pressure and meet the demands of the game......he was hyped to hell but rarely showed it

 

[Lauz9888]

Yes i can , grealish is a master at it , it is his thing, hated him doing it against us and hate him doing us for us , same as i hate the rags and dippers doing it , no need, raz is often running at speed , there is a difference generally speaking . Remain upright , dont go over on the spot every time a player goes up to you , play with the ball, pass it , stop slowing everything to a stop , that is not us , i honestly dont think he has it in him to play our way

He gets fouled a shitload.

I've seen him dive in the past, but much less than people make out. Regardless - anytime anyone does it, whoever they play for, it pisses me off.

He dribbles slightly off-balance which allows him the agility to put himself between the ball and his opponent and force them to either foul him or let him retain possession. Being off-balance means it doesn't take a lot of contact to send him over. So he puts himself at risk of fouls while minimising the risk of injury where he can.

If he played less off-balance, planting his feet firmly on to the floor, Dallas wouldn't have been the only player going off with a broken leg on Saturday.

 

[Lauz9888]

if I saw that video about a player that I didnt know and someone said we were buying him Id really question the decision to....it shows nothing more than anything any average professional footballer at the top level can do...And youtube videos usually make people look better than they are!!

If anything, you have just made me question him that bit more as I thought maybe I hadnt seen enough of him previously....

Out of interest, what more were you hoping to see?

 

[stonerblue]

Out of interest, what more were you hoping to see?

Gliding past defenders, shrugging them off and planting it in the bottom corner.

 

[Dialog]

again its called bias and bigging your team mates up...nothing wrong witht hat and its to be expected but in terms of validity it means nothing....why dont they do it to others.....cause they dont get asked about others as the media dont care....Grealish is a dream for the media in every way...he is a marketing dream, other payers arent

That's exactly what I wanted to say, it's like you took it right out of my head!!!!

 

[Lauz9888]

Gliding past defenders, shrugging them off and planting it in the bottom corner.

In a one-season compilation of a player who's scored 17 Premier League goals in his entire career, you were hoping to see a load of goals?

What, the ones he's been hiding in his back pocket?

Here's all his goals:



He's scored some nice ones. But he hasn't scored many. It's not hidden information.

We've got to assume we didn't buy him expecting we had a big goalscorer on our hands.

An awful lot of his goals are edge of the box strikes and - whether it's for a lack of space or a lack of confidence - I don't see him taking those on this season.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Remain upright , dont go over on the spot every time a player goes up to you , play with the ball, pass it , stop slowing everything to a stop , that is not us , i honestly dont think he has it in him to play our way

Amusingly, I think you will find many, many football fans say that about Sterling, especially when (as a right footer) he plays on the left.

In fact, for quite a while now, Sterling has been seen as a diver by many observers.

Whether Grealish can become “a City player” or not next season remains to be seen. Clearly, his “standard” statistical output (G/A) has been poor while Pep tries to integrate him. Next season is clearly going to be a “make or break” season for him at City, as attacking positions become even more difficult to nail down.

You already know that I think Sterling’s technical prowess is not of the quality required for City to give him a new, top pay, contract. I think he runs down blind alleys, often without control of the ball. I think he lacks the presence under pressure to be a City forward.

None of this will change your opinion, and it would take some sustained improvement in those areas to change mine. That’s not going to happen, imho.

To be fair, Sterling has worked his socks off in recent games, and his attitude cannot be questioned. My concern is ability, in this team, to be a starting forward going forward. I don’t think he has it… you do! :-)

The jury is out on Grealish for now. He shows flashes, rarely gives the ball away, but isn’t having anything like the effect he needs to be having on our attacking intent. That has to change.

 

[simon23]

Out of interest, what more were you hoping to see?

a player who creates chances on a regular basis, a player who beats his man on a regular basis, a player who scores goals on a regular basis...half of that video is him being fouled/falling over or just simple dribbles and passes that nearly every professional footballer can do....its a highlights video after all and I wouldnt say there arent many highlights in that video that stand out as anything but ordinary

 

[Lauz9888]

a player who creates chances on a regular basis, a player who beats his man on a regular basis, a player who scores goals on a regular basis...half of that video is him being fouled/falling over or just simple dribbles and passes that nearly every professional footballer can do....its a highlights video after all and I wouldnt say there arent many highlights in that video that stand out as anything but ordinary

Perhaps there's nothing I can show you to convince you that most of what you're looking for is there. But this one is perhaps a better video.

He doesn't score a lot of goals. He never has. So I don't know why people are expecting it. But as for beating his man and creating chances... when he's at his best there aren't many better.