Jack Grealish

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BillyShears said:
Can I just say that we're in the luckiest position we could dream of being in. About to win the title. Best coach in the world. Unbelievable squad. Grealish or no Grealish.

In the meantime, nobody wins when the family feuds.

Hug it out and lets enjoy the rest of the season. :)
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Any chance Pep extends again?
 
KennyG said:
I feel if he is here for 2 years, he’d rather have Kane. Hoping a young talent like Haaland can get his juices flowing, and he stays longer.
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I don't think he'd care too much about Haaland vs Kane. He just wants a cold blooded finisher. Kane is injury prone, Haaland has more to learn.

IMO the one thing that might make him stay would be to see an academy revolution at the club. We know he wants to work with academy players in the future, and if he's won everything there is in the next 2 years, being told to focus on overseeing the likes of Palmer, Doyle, McAtee, Lavia, Delap into the side without the usual pressure to win everything (apart from the pressure he puts on himself) might be the kind of project that makes him want to stay longer.
 
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KennyG said:
I feel if he is here for 2 years, he’d rather have Kane. Hoping a young talent like Haaland can get his juices flowing, and he stays longer.
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Don't think it would be his decision when it comes to spending over £100 mill on a 28 year old with injury issues. Think others will say no to that. If we are spending that sort of money it will be on somebody under 25 IMO.
 
domalino said:
I don't think he'd care too much about Haaland vs Kane. He just wants a cold blooded finisher. Kane is injury prone, Haaland has more to learn.

IMO the one thing that might make him stay would be to see an academy revolution at the club. We know he wants to work with academy players in the future, and if he's won everything there is in the next 2 years. Being told to focus on overseeing the likes of Palmer, Doyle, McAtee, Lavia, Delap into the side without the usual pressure to win everything (apart from the pressure he puts on himself) might be the kind of project that makes him want to stay longer.
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Judging by reports they are trying to sign a lot of young Brazilian talents, and not for small change either. Throw in the Portuguese left back. You can see an effort to plan for the distant future. Interesting.
 
racecar said:
There’s no better place for him than here. No other board would be as accommodating. A lot can change of course but personally I think he will stay with us beyond his current deal.
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He is practically rebuilding,if all this summers rumoured targets come off.....he's gonna want to be at the helm when we ruin football for everyone else.
 
Considering that Aguero hasn't played that many minutes for us, bringing in Haaland who would be the undisputed starter means already some players are getting less minutes just with Haaland.

If you bring in Grealish then somebody has to leave, Gundogan rotating as the #6 is a potential option, but I don't see Pep moving players around in positions anymore, moving Gundogan between #6 and #8 is a bad idea, and doing this for any player is a bad idea as what he has to do in each position changes completely. This season in general everybody has played fixed roles (even if the position slightly changes like with Bernie).

Basically I see Zakaria coming in as a backup, or Dinho another year more likely than Gundogan going back there.

This means a winger has to be sold.
 
You know, if for whatever reason Haaland doesn't work out this summer, I can see us pushing hard for Grealish.

If there's no Haaland then the club might press ahead with the current 'Jesus or false 9' strategy that's worked well for us this season, and then all of a sudden there'd be room for a player like Grealish and his creative ability
 
Probably in the minority here who thinks he's a big fish in a small pond, a bit like Declan Rice. A good player, definitely, but he'd be about 70mil. He's only had 2 good seasons in the Prem.
 
mccity said:
You know, if for whatever reason Haaland doesn't work out this summer, I can see us pushing hard for Grealish.

If there's no Haaland then the club might press ahead with the current 'Jesus or false 9' strategy that's worked well for us this season, and then all of a sudden there'd be room for a player like Grealish and his creative ability
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I kind of like it in some weird way.

False 9 suits us well, Pep might very well see Foden or Grealish having huge potential as a false 9. Barcelona's current resurgence in La Liga is due to playing 343 with 3 forwards in Griezmann, Dembele, Messi, neither of them truly playing as a 9.

But so many people are linking us with Haaland or a striker that I have big doubts about that path.
 
mccity said:
You know, if for whatever reason Haaland doesn't work out this summer, I can see us pushing hard for Grealish.

If there's no Haaland then the club might press ahead with the current 'Jesus or false 9' strategy that's worked well for us this season, and then all of a sudden there'd be room for a player like Grealish and his creative ability
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Jesus, this fetishizing of the false 9 again... “Jesus or false 9” isn’t a strategy lol. Please stop.

also, it’s not Haaland OR Grealish, it’s both
 
WallyA said:
I kind of like it in some weird way.

False 9 suits us well, Pep might very well see Foden or Grealish having huge potential as a false 9. Barcelona's current resurgence in La Liga is due to playing 343 with 3 forwards in Griezmann, Dembele, Messi, neither of them truly playing as a 9.

But so many people are linking us with Haaland or a striker that I have big doubts about that path.
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Yeah I do think we're in heavy for Haaland, it's just after him the backup options (Kane or Lukaku) seem very difficult to get, and then after those two the quality drop off is too great in all the other available goal scorers and I don't think it's in the club's MO to sign a guy for the sake of filling in a position.

I expect us to move for Grealish if Messi doesn't pan out, my logic was more I expect us to move in harder for him should Haaland doesn't work out either due to the reasons above.
 
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