10 | Jack Grealish - 2023/24

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01cravend said:
Could he improve his goal/assist output? Of course. But his being our outball, pressure relieving and defensive work proved far more valuable last season than having a few more goals and assists. So I'd take last seasons version of Grealish again please
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I think that his assist output speed was actually quite well if looking at the 2nd half of last season after Cancelo left. And he rarely took set pieces or corners.

Goal side I think that he will never be a great goal scorer. But to be fair he has never been really put into his scoring zone often for City. According to his scoring history at Villa, his shooting hot zone is left half space in the box and it was usually occupied by Cancelo or Gundo in his first two seasons.

Just clarify I am not complaining about the way Pep uses him. I think it makes a lot of sense. I just don't think that Grealish goal output will increase a lot unless someone goes outside him on the left providing width. Don't think it will happen this season...
 
applejuice said:
I think that his assist output speed was actually quite well if looking at the 2nd half of last season after Cancelo left. And he rarely took set pieces or corners.

Goal side I think that he will never be a great goal scorer. But to be fair he has never been really put into his scoring zone often for City. According to his scoring history at Villa, his shooting hot zone is left half space in the box and it was usually occupied by Cancelo or Gundo in his first two seasons.

Just clarify I am not complaining about the way Pep uses him. I think it makes a lot of sense. I just don't think that Grealish goal output will increase a lot unless someone goes outside him on the left providing width. Don't think it will happen this season...
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Even besides him not getting many chances to shoot like you said, he still has the lowest goals to shot ratio in the team with .09 goals per shot.

Haaland: 0.26
Alvarez: 0.18
Kevin: 0.11 (but highest average shot distance)
Gundogan: 0.13
Bernie: 0.21
Riyad: 0.12
Phil: 0.22

I also checked shot distance and Grealish shoots from a shorter distance than most of them to take that argument away, and kev shoots frequently from range.
 
WallyA said:
Even besides him not getting many chances to shoot like you said, he still has the lowest goals to shot ratio in the team with .09 goals per shot.

Haaland: 0.26
Alvarez: 0.18
Kevin: 0.11 (but highest average shot distance)
Gundogan: 0.13
Bernie: 0.21
Riyad: 0.12
Phil: 0.22

I also checked shot distance and Grealish shoots from a shorter distance than most of them to take that argument away, and kev shoots frequently from range.
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As what I have said it is actually not about distance. It is more about hot zone and the setting of shooting. Every player has a natural score zone. Someone is big someone is small. Grealish is not a good goal scorer but he does not get those chances often as well. A cut back pass from left or a shot following carry in right half space suit him better but we had Gundo and Kev better candidates in those situations.
 
He was brilliant second half of season some fans will never be happy
 
If his goals and assists ratios improving, mean us not winning a treble next season, then I'll settle for him doing what he did this year thanks.
 
Phil1 said:
It’s more bizarre when the last handful of dickheads are slagging him off after a season where he was exceptional.
It’s always good to read their posts just to reaffirm that they know the square root of fuck all about how we set up and how Pep wants to deploy him.
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How was he exceptional last season, the bar for Grealish is extremely low. Mahrez, Sterling always produced more than him but they still had more haters. I really think people are defensive about the price we paid and don’t want to admit he is just average.
 
Tokyo32 said:
How was he exceptional last season, the bar for Grealish is extremely low. Mahrez, Sterling always produced more than him but they still had more haters. I really think people are defensive about the price we paid and don’t want to admit he is just average.
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Oh here we go… it starts.
 
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