#47 | Phil Foden - 2021/22 Performances

[Akira]

Probably the most exciting English player in the country right now. Absolute joy to watch.

 

[MarsLlama]

Oops.

Hardly mate, he's still running at a rate of half the season on the bench. Long way to go until he's the player we all pretend he is.

 

[Craig]

He needs to play false 9, he is so suited to it, pacey, skill movement,passing, passion and an eye for a goal, the team would revolve around him

Number 8 will be where we eventually truly see the best of him and running games. He’s had some very good games as a false 9 but until Sterling has recently found some form and confidence he’s been the only real option for left wing in big games. Without him there we’ve often looked too narrow and pedestrian especially when Grealish is out there.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Blimey....

 

[Phil1]

Hardly mate, he's still running at a rate of half the season on the bench. Long way to go until he's the player we all pretend he is.

Haha! Yeah, let’s just pretend he’s world class eh!
It’ll just take you a bit longer to catch up as usual that’s all.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Probably the most exciting English player in the country right now. Absolute joy to watch.

Indeed.
Only a llama,living on planet Mars,called Craig....would disagree.

 

[Agueroooo9320]

generational! put some respect on this man's natural talent. I seen some here say McAtee is as big a talent as Foden which I think is such a disrespectful thing to say regarding Foden.

 

[SamTheGuru]

Great performance last night. Best player on the pitch.....but going and bleaching his hair like that, I don't have words! Looks like he got dunked upside down in a non diluted mixture of toilet duck, cillit bang and mr muscle.

 

[Keeper!]

The gulf of understanding between him and Grealish is like night and day

At LF or false 9. He is simply more active and intuitive. Checks into spaces quickly. Drops out with speed to receive short passes, and if the pass doesn't come, he darts quickly into the next open attacking position. Grealish on the other hand seemed mostly lost at false 9 and while he was better at LF, you could tell he was mostly relying on his talent.

Hopefully in a year, he'd understand the system better and be able to let his talent show within the system.

Right now Grealish looks like a big fish from a small pond struggling with the pace of the game in the big river. He is used to the game moving at his pace and through him.

He'll learn. But Foden is awesome.

Hunger and desire.

Grealish lacks both which is the big worry for me, settling into this team is difficult even for the great players but energy and passion should not be missing.

He must really pull his finger out and do far more on the pitch.

 

[Phil1]

Hunger and desire.

Grealish lacks both

Meh, we are just making things up at this point. You don't get to the top of your profession by lacking those two components.
It might not be obvious to us right now as he's acclimatising to new surroundings but it's certainly an unfair accusation to throw at him on the back of 20 games or so.