That’s pure conjecture
Grealish To City? | City bid £100M
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If you’re talking about us, then we need to strengthen all the time
I live in hope for the day that we don't need at least 2 centre mids.
I wonder if such a time will ever exist.
3 years I think
In the last 10 years, we went from needing 1 in 2012, to needing 2 in 2021,while having the problem persist throughout that time period.
Probably an unpopular opinion but I'd like us to sign Grealish for the RW position. Obviously his best position (so far) seems to be LW, where we have Rashford, and sure Grealish could rotate/challenge for the position too, but I think he would be quality on the right wing too. His dribbling enables him to beat a man on the outside or inside, so he could play either wing imo.
Think the whole 'right footer must play on the left' and vice versa is overexagerated anyway.
Think the whole 'right footer must play on the left' and vice versa is overexagerated anyway.
It's nothing to do with what foot he is, as seen with Rashford being utterly dead weight on the right, yet good on the left.
It's to do with where he plays best. The fact he's almost never used on the right, at a team not blessed in any position, speaks volumes.
Not to mention that it's utter madness to boot huge fees on players and then change their position. Di Maria showed us that.
Erm, it definitely has something to do with it, or at least it matters to the numerous people in this thread and many others who reference right footers cutting in from the left.
All it proves is he hasn't played there before. Attitude and willingness to adapt is a part of it, and on that we can only speculate, but his skill would mean he could flourish there. Plenty of players can flourish in a position they haven't previously played, eg De Bruyne being moved to a number 8, Firminho moving to a false 9, Bale moving from LB to LW to 10 to RW etc etc.... I trust my evaluation of Grealish's skill set over a simplistic analysis of he hasn't played there before so can't be any good there.
Just to add further we aren't talking about a youngster who is just breaking through but a player who is about to hit his prime and who might already be set in his ways and most probably found his best position, it could be counter productive and we aren't in a position to take that chance when such huge sums of money is involved .
And I say that as somebody who is a huge fan of Grealish and if he comes he would simply displace Rashford after brief experimentation of him playing at RW and we might find ourself in the same state of looking for RW again unless Greenwood or Diallo make RW position their own.
He has played there before, even this season in periods of games, and never looks anywhere near the same threat.
But you don't buy a player for his fee and then change his position. That is idiocy.
It seems pretty obvious doesn't it.
You play star players in their best position.
What other industry would you pay sky high money and then try and use something in a different way? It's maniac behaviour.
We've seen it plenty of times over the last decade that trying to shoehorn players into different positions does not work very well at all.
Ok in emergencies, or training youngsters, but not for record transfer fees!
We have to NOT ALLOW GREALISH GO TO CITY
PLEASE AND PLEASE
PLEASE AND PLEASE
Glad I triggered a Man City fan. Mission accomplished.
City will play 'God mode' football if they manage to get Grealish and replace Aguero with Haaland or Kane.
The season can be terminated before it even begins.
The season can be terminated before it even begins.
OKAY
How did I end up in the "RedCafe goes into Meltdown thread"?
One thing people love to do here is create hypothetical situations in their own heads and then get angry about it.
I hope he doesn’t go to City. He is my current favourite player and is a classic Ferguson type signing - so good that you just have to get him and worry about where to play him later.
It’s irrational as we have higher priority positions but SAF wouldn’t let that stop him and he’s the player I hope we sign above all others. I might actually cry if he goes to City.
It’s irrational as we have higher priority positions but SAF wouldn’t let that stop him and he’s the player I hope we sign above all others. I might actually cry if he goes to City.
Would be gutted if he went to City, I think he is so good
I’m still baffled that some fans would not want him here so that he doesn’t slow down Rashford’s growth or Greenwood’s growth. If he goes to City, the same people would be claiming that City are on cheat code mode. I really don’t understand the contradiction.
Grealish is the sort of signing we need, he’d be perfect but I don’t want it to come down to him or sancho, we need both! Obviously that isn’t going to happen though because we need to improve in other areas such as defence and midfield.
WHY ARE WE SHOUTING?
Grealish can play across 4-5 positions effectively.
He's also an outstanding mercurial talent that can hold the ball, can improve, can pick a pass and read the attacking play well to spot creative incisive quick passes.
I'm with Roy Keane on this one: Just get this done
Technically it's a Muppet thread.
Evening friend.
Maybe it's NOT such a given they'll dominate Europe this decade eh?
Probably should have waited until they'd, won this cup once before starting talking about mutliple wins?
City could have done with him tonight.
I was trying to tell you scaredy cats. To dominate Europe for the next decade they first need to start winning the CL once.
If we listened to the drama llamas on here City would have 10 CL's already. They are a shoe-in every year allegedly, no one can stop them.
rektI’m delighted about last night.
But they’ll be in many many more finals, tonight doesn’t change that.
Head in the sand stuff apparently!
This.
And the positional versatility is I think a key argument why he might be a better option than even some other comparable talent, like Sancho. We would effectively have five starting XI-quality players sharing three spots in the forward line behind the striker (Rashford, Pogba, Bruno, Greenwood + new signee), and with that it's crucial that at least some of them can play with comparable effectiveness in different positions. And he would be the only player who could deputise for Bruno, which we sorely need.
BECAUSE WE'RE IN A PANIC!!
Nah, you were spouting total nonsense but now you’ve sobered up naked and you’re trying to cover you embarrassment - hilariously and badly.
You gave me and many others a good laugh though so big thanks to you and your 50+1 :-D
And why will Grealish want to join the second best team in the league with a HISTORY but no signficant honours for almost 10 years over a club that can guarantee him a big one (PL or CL) every year over the next few years, its a no- brainer, who amongst us would want to join a club that has parasitic owners, a wannabe manager and an old creaking steadium and outdated training facilities?
My pal is a Villa fan and him along with most he knows is Grealish want out then go, he agrees with myself that City move would be a bad one, like most he fears how much game time he will get . And the transfer fee is going to be over £65 million my guess, City pay big bucks havent gone into the 80 90 million bracket yet.
I think they may well have to if the targets they want are Grealish , and Kane.
I think they may well have to if the targets they want are Grealish , and Kane.
He never plays on the right. I don't think any club would want to pay 80-90m on a player who never plays the position they asking for.
Just get Pogba out and get him in he got Utd written all over him.
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