10 | Jack Grealish - 2022/23 Performances

[MCFC ISRAEL]

Can he use his left leg, or does he only do it to go up the stairs?
He keeps going to his right, everyone knows it. Grealish is not winger and it won't help as much as we would like to believe he is. He is a good player who should play in the center.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Alvarez is already looking more mature than Grealish who likeable though he is must now knuckle down to produce the form of his life on the pitch not on the piss .

I see it a bit differently. Grealish is playing really mature, like the manager wants. That’s why I am not remotely surprised when Pep backs him. The thing is, we wouldn’t have signed this Grealish and definitely not for £100m.

Alvarez is playing like the Alvarez we bought. A young kid, without a care in the world just going out there an playing like he has done since he was knocking the ball around with his mates in the playground. I think we all hope he continues this way, but there is a flip side…he will lose possession, potentially a lot and it’s how Pep reacts to this.

As an example, I always felt like Pep was ok with Sterling playing off-the-cuff and losing possession when he was banging in 20 goals a season. Not so much when the goals dried up. Hopefully Alvarez delivers on G/A otherwise I think Pep will go with the safe/mature option to retain possession.

 

[southamptonblue]

I see it a bit differently. Grealish is playing really mature, like the manager wants. That’s why I am not remotely surprised when Pep backs him. The thing is, we wouldn’t have signed this Grealish and definitely not for £100m.

Alvarez is playing like the Alvarez we bought. A young kid, without a care in the world just going out there an playing like he has done since he was knocking the ball around with his mates in the playground. I think we all hope he continues this way, but there is a flip side…he will lose possession, potentially a lot and it’s how Pep reacts to this.

As an example, I always felt like Pep was ok with Sterling playing off-the-cuff and losing possession when he was banging in 20 goals a season. Not so much when the goals dried up. Hopefully Alvarez delivers on G/A otherwise I think Pep will go with the safe/mature option to retain possession.

If we play someone who basically only offers retaining possession.....digging up Ray Wilkins would have been a far cheaper option ;)

 

[Don Karleone]

 

[applejuice]

Yet to see what his best attribute is. He’s got a lot to do as currently I think he just looks very average and his effort for the first goal was piss poor.

Isn't the blame on Rodri or Bernado of not rotating to the left flank when Grealish ran to support Cancelo? It is just a very normal defending scene and every team does so facing Salah. Left winger and left back vs Salah and left midfielder protects the flank.

 

[Ric]

Really think he needs to be playing in the middle as an 8 to see the best of him. Doesn’t seem particularly well suited to the wide left role, especially when paired with another right footer in Cancelo at left-back. Makes the team seem a bit unbalanced.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

If we play someone who basically only offers retaining possession.....digging up Ray Wilkins would have been a far cheaper option ;)

I don’t like it but I’m not the manager. IMO the Grealish/Mahrez combo isn’t even in the same stratosphere as the Sane/Sterling combo. For me watching how toothless/pathetic Grealish and Mahrez were in the 1st half away at West Ham last season would have been the end of that partnership forever. However, Pep is a genius and he thinks differently.

 

[applejuice]

Can he use his left leg, or does he only do it to go up the stairs?
He keeps going to his right, everyone knows it. Grealish is not winger and it won't help as much as we would like to believe he is. He is a good player who should play in the center.

He last assist to Halaand is with his left leg. He dropped to the byline once to feed Halaand but Halaand did not win against VVD.


The real problem is Mahrez who has no right foot at all. And both Mahrez and KDB did not arrive into the box as often as it need. So when Grealish looked up there was only one striker in the box against Liverpool very capable center backs. A cross would be meaningless. So he just cut inside to try to drag the space on the right to find Mahrez who parked there all the time.


When Alvarez came on we had two targets in the box thus it was much better.

 

[southamptonblue]

I don’t like it but I’m not the manager. IMO the Grealish/Mahrez combo isn’t even in the same stratosphere as the Sane/Sterling combo. For me watching how toothless/pathetic Grealish and Mahrez were in the 1st half away at West Ham last season would have been the end of that partnership forever. However, Pep is a genius and he thinks differently.

Couldn't agree more.....the amount of times I see the line up and think WTF are we doing and win, or think we got it bang on and lose happens alot ;)

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Really think he needs to be playing in the middle as an 8 to see the best of him. Doesn’t seem particularly well suited to the wide left role, especially when paired with another right footer in Cancelo at left-back. Makes the team seem a bit unbalanced.

The problem is that after a season with us we are benching someone better than him in any position you want to put him in. Foden is better than him wide. KDB and Bernie are better than him central. I like Grealish, I think he is a very good player and he can do a job here. However, at the moment he is a squad player and only he can change that.