10 | Jack Grealish - 2023/24

[nickamon]

Played ok but no end product.

This. Played well but he is soo slow in his wind up to shoot. Really need him to be a goal threat too.

 

[Jonas.shaffer]

This thread, compared to others, is quite something.

 

[Blue Steel]

Still want to see him in a more centre midfield role. He carries the ball so well when he has space to run into and get moving.

Out wide you only get a small amount of space to work in and he clearly doesn't trust his acceleration off the mark to beat a defender in 5 yards of space. Look how much more comfortable he looks running at a player when he drifts more central now and again.

he carries the ball well into space, he rarely loses the ball, he's defensively responsible etc etc. Surely those are the ingredients for a very good centre mid.

Obviously Pep knows best. I just can't work it out. All his best attributes lend himself to playing further in field. I'd have him as the link between Rodri and an attacking playmaker. Essentially an "8", as they say when numbering positions.

Should have been played centrally a long, long time ago.

Pep knows best on many things but I remain to be convinced he will ever know best when it comes to Grealish. He uses Jack as an effective cog to give space and chances to other players, but never allows him to shine himself. He’s absolutely wasted hugging the left touchline. It’s not his position and never will be.

Grealish is on record for saying he’d like to play the 8 role earlier this season. His defensive and overall workrate is outstanding, as well as his ability to keep the ball when we’ve actually had issues losing it in key central positions this season. He might doubt his ability to beat a man over 5 yards every time but he has a lot of speed over distance. Midfield is made for him.

 

[Lowtower]

Thought Jack was good last night.

Some people are fucking mental on these threads, I guess that most just usually play on their gamestations doing rainbow flicks and 40 yard screamers and compare players to that, and then can't get their heads around real life top top level professional football.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Good game, did what was expected. At this point it's really no use thinking of a game changing goal or contribution from Jack, just be happy with his contribution on the pitch. If you can't make peace with that then you would always be disappointed.

 

[MarsLlama]

Do you hold the same standard to the right winger tonight? Bernado and Phil?

We hold Grealish to remarkably low standards, that's the problem. His output this season is three goals, five assists and only one since December. None of our other wingers in the Pep era would get away with that.

 

[Blu1]

He played well & for me foden should have come off instead.

 

[bluemc1]

I’d have picked him to start last night but if you’d have known how defensive Madrid would be ( made worse by their early goal ) I’d have gone with Doku

Hindsight eh

 

[bell_mcfc]

Thought Jack was incredible last night.

Anyone who is blaming one player needs to grow up. Blame the whole team if that makes you feel better.

 

[Akira]

I actually thought he played okay, but Doku was the correct sub at that point of the game.