10 | Jack Grealish - 2023/24

[MadchesterCity]

I like him. I can see him replacing KDB. He’s clearly not a winger. But no one can argue that last season’s numbers were criminal for a £100m player on wages of £1m a month. Make or break next season. A repeat surely cannot be accepted.

I like Jack but god help us if he’s the KDB replacement

 

[MadchesterCity]

Off to Ibiza then?

That would be stupid, he’s be better going to a Buddhist retreat to face his demons rather than Ibiza to feed them.

 

[Belgian Flash]

Flash. Grealish is not world-class. Please don't undermine world-class players. I get it, you like Jack. He is a nice lad and whatever tickles you about him but calling him worldclass is punching above his weight and level. Anyway, I doubt me saying this would stop you from making such claims.

Why is he not? Most of his attributes are world class. His technical ability, composure and decision making are second to none. He is a physical specimen that runs all day long. Strong as an ox. Can control the tempo of attack like no one else can. And he's won everything there is on club level. Pep said 100 million is ok for this guy. I think its pretty fair argument to call him worldclass.

 

[freshie]

I’m talking of Gareth

I thought this was a Jack Grealish thread

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Why is he not? Most of his attributes are world class. His technical ability, composure and decision making are second to none. He is a physical specimen that runs all day long. Strong as an ox. Can control the tempo of attack like no one else can. And he's won everything there is on club level. Pep said 100 million is ok for this guy. I think its pretty fair argument to call him worldclass.

Stop kidding yourself! Atributes? I have the attributes to be a world class porn star but I'd probably have an heart attack trying.

He has potential but to be world class he has to be averaging 8/10 for club and country. And that includes enough goals and assists in his position. He's had a piss poor season that even his most vocal fan boys cannot argue with.

I'm not a negative poster but I cannot see Grealish turning it round and having a world class season. I really hope he can but that's my heart ruling my head.

Rumour has it that Villa Bayern and spurs are interested. If we get a decent 50-60M offer I'd sell him a d cut our losses because if we keep him and he has another underwhelming season we'd be lucky to get 30M. If Jack wants to get his game back on track he needs to stay off the booze and get his body and mind fit and fully focused. With Doku now ahead of him to start games I think Jack will be better leaving tbh.

 

[Tevez City]

Lets hope he will enjoy the break and come back fresh & ready

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Why is he not? Most of his attributes are world class. His technical ability, composure and decision making are second to none. He is a physical specimen that runs all day long. Strong as an ox. Can control the tempo of attack like no one else can. And he's won everything there is on club level. Pep said 100 million is ok for this guy. I think its pretty fair argument to call him worldclass.

I like Jack, I think he is a breath of fresh air as footballers go, he's an honest, sincere and caring guy, but I wouldn't put him in the top five performers last season. His contribution might be world class but it is intermittent.

 

[YoungDouglas]

The bus suddenly moving forward whilst he's on an unstable bench at the back of the bus isn't an "incident" FFS.

Agreed. Plus whoever said his bus celebrations this year weren’t a good look, FFS he hardly featured this time. A few more looked worse than he did and after the prem party

 

[Kamaro011]

Atleast Grealish will not getting blamed that England is failing another tournament.

 

[Keeper!]

Why is he not? Most of his attributes are world class. His technical ability, composure and decision making are second to none. He is a physical specimen that runs all day long. Strong as an ox. Can control the tempo of attack like no one else can. And he's won everything there is on club level. Pep said 100 million is ok for this guy. I think its pretty fair argument to call him worldclass.

World class players dictate games, change games and ultimately win games with incredible performances.

Grealish in 3 season had a superb 6 months where he started to look a player that could become what the above sentence just explained.

Sadly this last season he went into reverse and looked like the player when he first joined, utterly and totally underwhelming.

He is a huge talent there simply is no argument there, which makes his performances even harder to take. These problems for me are about mentality, the best players and all the world class players have incredible mental strength and mentality, sadly I am not sure Jack has, he has far too much SELF doubt, he is clearly not the cocky almost arrogant player we see on the pitch particularly in the Villa shirt, he seems very insecure and self doubting.

Personally I think he will go if we get a good offer but if not hopefully the England snub will fire him up and make him want to shove that rejection down Southgate's throat and go on to have the best season of his career.