The Marmite factor definitely....but the two are different in their approach to our shirt and the opportunity presented to them.
Fans: Grealish needs to get more goals and assists
Pundits: Grealish needs to get more goals and assists
Grealish: I need to get more goals and assists
People on here: He's not here to get goals and assists
You'd have thought that Jack himself admitting that he needs to up his output would put to bed this idea that output is an unreasonable expectation of him.
That said I doubt he's leaving next summer. Transfer journalism is almost all bullshit.
This is nonsense, mate. The difference between Sterling in 15/16 and Sterling in 17/18 was incredible. He worked hard, very fucking hard, to become as good as he did. People who don't work hard for the team don't last long under Pep.The Marmite factor definitely....but the two are different in their approach to our shirt and the opportunity presented to them.
Believe that you’ll believe anything. Pep will always back his players in public. He knows if he says Jack needs to score and assist more it will add even scrutiny on him.You missed out
Pep - I really don’t give a fuck about his goals and assist numbers
He is here to get goals and assists. The last match against Wolves he played well, he needs to keep that level and contribute to the team more.Fans: Grealish needs to get more goals and assists
Pundits: Grealish needs to get more goals and assists
Grealish: I need to get more goals and assists
People on here: He's not here to get goals and assists
You'd have thought that Jack himself admitting that he needs to up his output would put to bed this idea that output is an unreasonable expectation of him.
That said I doubt he's leaving next summer. Transfer journalism is almost all bullshit.
Believe that you’ll believe anything. Pep will always back his players in public. He knows if he says Jack needs to score and assist more it will add even scrutiny on him.
Funny how when we needed goals and assists Jack got subbed against Dortmund. Surprised Pep didn’t say keep holding the ball Jack and playing square passes. Jesus was supposed to be a striker so needed to score more goals in our side to keep that position vacated by the greatest striker in our history. Sterling’s all round game was at best average so goals were the way he could justify his place. Grealish is a class footballer so isn’t going to have many days like Sterling where his first touch is poor and basic passes keep going astray.That would almost be a worthwhile point except for the fact Pep said publicly that Jesus, Sané and Sterling all needed to score more goals when they were in dry patches.
In fact I remember him saying the same about Bernardo too, that he needed to score more goals to decide games.
So any notion Pep wouldn’t comment on Grealish needing to score more because he is compelled to defend his players in public is provably false, he’s done it loads.
Not that anything like a long history of doing something will stop some posters thinking everything the man says is a quadruple bluff smokescreen that can only be believed when it backs up their argument…