10 | Jack Grealish - 2022/23 Performances

[Frankie lad]

earlier in the season i said his dribbling isn't good enough.

i don't know where that jack grealish has gone but he glides past players with ease these days.

When you say glides past you mean sideways past?

 

[samuelyeboah]

When you say glides past you mean sideways past?

look at our second goal as well as phil's great chance in the second half - both orchestrated by jack attacking the space. I think he's found a move that he feels really comfortable with in our system and it's becoming a serious weapon

 

[twosips]

Lovely performance this. So much more purpose and confidence to his game. Effecting things at both ends of the pitch.

 

[MarsLlama]

It's funny as fuck that most of the Grealish haters seem to have melted away. They wouldn't be told that he needed a good length of time to settle into a Pep team.

I can understand this attitude for the few people who said he'd never be good enough and there was no chance of him making it here. I accept that that was wrong.

But most of his critics have been proven right by the recent upturn in form, not proven wrong. The point we were making was that we spent £100m on a guy who didn't look anywhere near up to it. Now he looks much closer to the quality we were expecting and guess what? The 'haters' have 'melted away'.

What's actually happened was, he was hugely disappointing for ages and rightly got criticised. Then he improved so there wasn't as much to criticise anymore.

I still think he's been underwhelming overall, mind you. This is him 'settled into a Pep team' and he's still only really getting the occasional goal and assist.

I cannot imagine the fucking explosion so many posters on here would have if Raheem Sterling had 3 goals and 4 assists in a season for us and people were praising him for it. In fact that's pretty much Sterling's exact output at Chelsea right now and he's been shocking. I think it's that double standard that frustrates me more than anything.

 

[decmancity]

Shock as good player joins City, takes a while to get up to speed. Then is great again.

 

[decmancity]

I cannot imagine the fucking explosion so many posters on here would have if Raheem Sterling had 3 goals and 4 assists in a season for us and people were praising him for it. In fact that's pretty much Sterling's exact stats at Chelsea right now and he's been shocking. I think it's that double standard that frustrates me more than anything.

If Sterling had 3g and 4a after regularly notching 20+ for us then yes I would be annoyed. However, Grealish has never and will never put up the numbers Sterling did, so I am not arsed what his goals and assists are. He isn't in the team to do that.

 

[MarsLlama]

Shock as good player joins City, takes a while to get up to speed. Then is great again.

There's a while and then there's 18 months. I can completely understand why people after a full season started to think it wasn't going to work.

 

[MarsLlama]

If Sterling had 3g and 4a after regularly notching 20+ for us then yes I would be annoyed. However, Grealish has never and will never put up the numbers Sterling did, so I am not arsed what his goals and assists are. He isn't in the team to do that.

Then what's the point?

Grealish's big thing is winning fouls. He's excellent at it - best in the world. But we are a really, really bad set piece team.

I'll say this for Grealish, I think any team that regularly started him and James Ward-Prowse would win the league easily. It's not his fault at all that the fouls he wins almost never lead to anything. I'd just much rather a winger whose first thought when they get the ball is 'how do I make something happen here?' and not 'how do I win a free kick here'?

Grealish isn't in the team to get loads of goals and assists, you're right. I'm just saying I liked it better when that was what our wingers were there to do. Personally, the Sterling/Sané days were as good as City football has ever been and I preferred that style to this one.

 

[decmancity]

There's a while and then there's 18 months. I can completely understand why people after a full season started to think it wasn't going to work.

Well you can pick and choose when you think he started to play better. He joined 18 months 3 weeks ago, but he has been top drawer since the World cup which was 3mths ago and he had already made a strong start to the season going back 6mth+ ago. It hasn't just clicked today has it.

 

[decmancity]

Then what's the point?

Grealish's big thing is winning fouls. He's excellent at it - best in the world. But we are a really, really bad set piece team.

I'll say this for Grealish, I think any team that regularly started him and James Ward-Prowse would win the league easily. It's not his fault at all that the fouls he wins almost never lead to anything. I'd just much rather a winger whose first thought when they get the ball is 'how do I make something happen here?' and not 'how do I win a free kick here'?

Grealish isn't in the team to get loads of goals and assists, you're right. I'm just saying I liked it better when that was what our wingers were there to do. Personally, the Sterling/Sané days were as good as City football has ever been and I preferred that style to this one.

Yes, Pep bought him for 100m because he wanted to win more fouls. Completely ignore all of the stats that put him just behind KDB when he was at Villa, everything from dribbles, take ons, passes and so on.
Lets just leave it there if that is your attitude to it.

You can like whatever you want, that isn't Grealish's fault is it. Go camp out in the Pep and Txiki threads if your looking for someone to blame for not having jet heeled wingers getting 20+ goals and assists a season.