10 | Jack Grealish - 2024/25

I've liked Grealish for numerous reasons - but that said, he really hasn't produced for us at all. Yes he's great at ball retention and drawing fouls - but as a winger, his responsibility is to beat his man and deliver a great cross or beat his man and score. He's done very little in terms of assisting/scoring.
 
DMA's said:
He didn’t blurt it out. We ended up having a long convo as he noticed my son was wearing a city coat and I asked the questions. It was a complete random encounter at an altrincham game. That is what he told me
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So he came to volunteer information about a club employee because your son was wearing a City coat? That explanation makes it less convincing!
 
Goater=Legend said:
Not sure what happened with the #8 experiment but that seems to of disappeared after two games.
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Clearly didn't implement it as effectively as Pep wanted. Whilst he certainly provided a lot more energy in the middle of the park, it's a creative position as much as one of control and Pep's commented time and time again about how Jack needs to do more in the final third.

I feel for Grealish because, much like Foden for England, our system and style maybe doesn't suit his best attributes and he was institutionalised from his time as the main man at Villa. But he did adapt and became a really key part of our treble winning side. The issue was, he was largely used as a sacrificial chess piece to occupy a couple of opposition players and then recycle the ball or play in someone else using that space.

The team now needs so much more than that from him. It needs him to beat his man and put a cross in or cut inside and bury one in the net. It can't have him playing that same role as he did in the treble season because that system has been worked out and it isn't enough. He needs to work his socks off in training and then go and show it on the pitch first time of asking. Then he'll get a run of games and be back to what we need. But I think it's much more realistic he'll move on in the summer. We won't get anywhere near what we spent on him, but he helped deliver the greatest season in our history so it's not money wasted and there will be no hard feelings.
 
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