10 | Jack Grealish - 2022/23 Performances

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He did ok yesterday. Plays a bit too safe and goes down the line but then plays it back into the middle.

Needs to drive at full backs. Take them on get them turning in their own box. Just go for it. I remember pep saying that he works on the pitch so that in the final 3rd it’s up to the players to work it out themselves.
 
i♥city said:
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Bobby the blue said:
He did ok yesterday. Plays a bit too safe and goes down the line but then plays it back into the middle.

Needs to drive at full backs. Take them on get them turning in their own box. Just go for it. I remember pep saying that he works on the pitch so that in the final 3rd it’s up to the players to work it out themselves.
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he was never the one to beat fullbacks on the outside. doubt he is going to start doing that anytime soon. better he does what he is already good at
 
Keeper! said:
I am saying the player I watched was not amazing and what I have seen of him in our shirt is what I expected.

A wide player that does not score enough goals, creates little and is classed as successful because he gets fouled alot, personally I find that a weakness but each to their own.
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"Creates little" is laughable.

Practically every metric you can look at shows Grealish as an elite creator.

I don't know that we're using him to the best of his ability. I don't know that he's better for our style of play than some of our other players. I agree he needs to be scoring more goals and taking more risks and all the rest of it.

But I don't think a lack of creativity is a fair assessment.

robbieh said:
He'd be better if he used his left foot occasionally.
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Agreed on this.

For starters, he's got a decent left-footed cross but uses it far too little.
 
JTFactsPlz said:
So you spend £100m on a flair player but then want to muzzle his "natural strengths"? That makes absolutely no sense. And if that's what City did do, with the understanding that's what Pep intended, it was a really stupid move.

I'm going to try and have some faith for a bit longer that City did know what they were doing buying Grealish and that Pep has a plan for him that will see him able to utilise his strengths and justify the price City paid for him. I'm sure no one wants that more than Jack himself. Presumably they know at least part of the problem is the mismatch with Cancelo, which is why they've been trying to buy a LB to overlap and also do a decent job defensively, which will free Jack up to do his job, rather than having Cancelo in his space and also have Jack spending half his time on the pitch doing defensive work covering for Cancelo. (Surely I wasn't the only one to notice Jack was the one winning a ground duel with Salah yesterday in the LB's area of the pitch?)
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Won the league last season with Jack. Not sure the club need to justify his purchase any further than that.

Who is next to get pounced on by the fans? Haaland had a stinker. Does the club need to justify his purchase? Big no 9 who does not fit our system? We did not utilise his strengths against Liverpool!

Tired argument. All of the players need to improve and contribute more. Dias is also still not firing, Foden quiet, Cancelo poor defensively, Ederson’s distribution was awful. I could go on and on but I am sure you get the point.

Gundo is the perfect example in this scenario. He was getting pelters by pep playing him out of position. Season before last he played in a more attacking role and pretty much scored a goal each game over the Christmas period and won us the title. Pep is asking Jack to do a job on the left and I am sure he has his reasons. Playing players out of position does not always work. Sterling/Foden as false 9 was atrocious.
 
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Agueroooo9320 said:
he was never the one to beat fullbacks on the outside. doubt he is going to start doing that anytime soon. better he does what he is already good at
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I don't think that I saw Grealish had a chance 1v1 TAA yesterday. Always TAA had Matip support and even one time I saw Salah TAA and Matip all on him.

Inverted winger tends to cut inside and it is the nature. Have you seen Foden beat the full back when he played RW in England shirt or City? It is just something normal.
No one questioned why Mahrez never manage to run to the byline.
And yesterday Grealish did at least once beat TAA and Matip on his own and made a pull back pass from the byline. But Halaand did not shoot quick enough and the ball was cleared by VVD.
 
wolviedinho said:
Won the league last season with Jack. Not sure the club need to justify his purchase any further than that.

Who is next to get pounced on by the fans? Haaland had a stinker. Does the club need to justify his purchase? Big no 9 who does not fit our system? We did not utilise his strengths against Liverpool!
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We really do have some horrible, negative cunts who follow us. Plus ca change.
 
OntarioBlue said:
Cards on the table, I am not a fan of Grealish. I never rated him at Villa and thought (when we bought him) he was a luxury we could have done without. We would have been much better off investing that kind of a money in a DM and a left back.

In his first season I was underwhelmed with his performances and judging by yesterday has has picked up where he left off.

If Pep is going to keep playing him on the left wing he has to be considered second choice to Foden in our best starting lineup.

I want him to come good and as I want all our players to come good, but I honestly don’t think he’s good enough. I hope I’m wrong but I dont think I am about this.
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I agree with your assessment.
I just can't fathom why we would pay 100mill for Jack. I'm puzzled why Pep wanted him so badly...Especially when we are quibbling over much smaller fee's for other players (like a LB). But more than the inexplicable fee is the fact (imo) that he slows us down, our passing game is kind of interrupted when Jack gets the ball.
If he was banging in a few goals then his desire to hold onto the ball and tackle defenders could be "oh well that's Jack, he scores plenty though"........I agree Foden wins the left wing slot in a "best 11" scenario.
 
Lauz9888 said:
"Creates little" is laughable.

Practically every metric you can look at shows Grealish as an elite creator.

I don't know that we're using him to the best of his ability. I don't know that he's better for our style of play than some of our other players. I agree he needs to be scoring more goals and taking more risks and all the rest of it.

But I don't think a lack of creativity is a fair assessment.


Agreed on this.

For starters, he's got a decent left-footed cross but uses it far too little.
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He created 3 assists last season and scored 3 goals, for a forward in our team that simply is not good enough.
 
Kamaro011 said:
And not single natural striker is receiving those assist, your point is?
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He doesn't score or assist enough.

We scored over 100 goals, won a title without a striker, so I am not sure what your point is.

We have just lost Sterling a player who struggled for form for over 2 seasons, and last year was in and out of the side, Raheem Sterling's stats...30 matches, 13 goals , 5 assists

That puts Grealish's season into reality, simply not good enough.
 
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Keeper! said:
He doesn't score or assist enough.

We scored over 100 goals, won a title without a striker, so I am not sure what your point is.

We have just lost Sterling a player who struggled for form for over 2 seasons, and last year was in and out of the side, Raheem Sterling's stats...30 matches, 13 goals , 5 assists

That puts Grealish's season into reality, simply not good enough.
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Simply not good enough to justify his price tag, that's what you mean like you always do to bring as part of his criticism.

I can guarantee you, until the end of his career in city is over he will never satisfy your specific expetation on him because his price tag will never and i mean ever to justify it.

And the most damning part?, Jack doesn't care. The only thing he cares about is to safisfy his manager demand on him to keep his place on team and for the most part Pep is happy on his contribution for the team and that's already enough for him.
 
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Kamaro011 said:
Simply not good enough to justify his price tag, that's what you mean like you always do to bring as part of his criticism.

I can guarantee you, until the end of his career in city is over he will never satisfy your specific expetation on him because his price tag will never and i mean ever to justify it.

And the most damning part?, Jack doesn't care. The only thing he cares about is to safisfy his manager demand on him to keep his place on team and for the most part Pep is happy on his contribution for the team and that's already enough for him.
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If he cost 1/2 of what we paid he would be a disappointment so far, are you seriously telling me you have been impressed by him?

He doesn't care? he should care and if he doesn't we are in trouble.
 
robbieh said:
He'd be better if he used his left foot occasionally.
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Grealish beat TAA and Matip from a run behind by his own to the byline just after we were 1 goal down. Used his left foot to put in a cross into the middle of the box. Halaand should use his body but he chose to try a volley and it was silly and naive. VVD cleared the ball before Halaand. So he did not try to do afterward (nor did any other teammates to make a pull back).

The problem is with Halaand's header. Not Grealish's his left foot.
 
Keeper! said:
He created 3 assists last season and scored 3 goals, for a forward in our team that simply is not good enough.
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There were multiple contributing factors to that low output last year, many of which have now been resolved.

I hope and believe he'll get more goals and assists this season.

But he's never been a big goalscorer. Never hit double figures for league goals in a single season.

So either we spent £100m in the belief that we could change him to be a big goalscorer and that would somehow be easier or better than just bringing in a someone with a goalscoring track record who we could almost certainly get for less than £100m.

Or we bought him for another reason, because there's something he does that is rare and special and unteachable, something that Pep needs for how he wants this side to play over the next few years.

We bought him on the basis of what he did at Villa, and goalscoring was a very small part of that.
 
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