Did you not see the way he draws fouls? Show some respect.
Jack Grealish | Man City
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Or, those famous calves!
Doesn’t help that almost any talented (youngish) player is being called a generational talent nowadays.
Why is this thread bumped for no particular reason? He just came back from injury
This forum loves City, no need to get worked up by one thread of criticism.
I just find it weird, it genuinly feels like people just check results without seeing games and then forms opinions.
Haaland thread after the Bournemouth game is already a classic in that regard
this is the most patient I've ever seen people be with a £100M man
Pep tried him in centre mid when he first signed and he was terrible, then Bernardo stayed, literally been no point to him being there ever since
I get that… I just think there’s a very good player in there. Not sure city was the best move for him.
Hasn’t been injured for 16 months now
He is England’s golden boy
He's all image. He's always been overhyped to the extreme.
He has been good for us, and more importantly he has never been poor. He has so far followed the trajectory of every forward signing Pep has ever made other than maybe Nolito and Jesus who both delivered good numbers from the get-go. New signings usually gets intructed to be much safer in their decisionmaking until they get the system down as second nature. Then, usually after a season they get license to bring back more of their own attributes. Mahrez has been through it, Bernardo has been through it and Grealish has had a better first season than both in my opinion.
People are just desperate for him to fail which given it's a United forum is fair enough but there is more than enough City fans that doesn't seem to learn either. I think his face just rubs people the wrong way
£100m for a calf merchant.
In terms of winning titles going to City was the best move. But there were always huge question marks over how he'd fit in there as their respective styles clash quite a bit. If it ultimately works it'll be huge for both he and the club as they end up strengthening each other, but they also run the risk of it ending up a costly mistake.
I'm still pissed about that huge VAR mistake where they missed the ball going over the line, a stuff-up that (in theory at least) was the defining factor in Villa not being relegated in 19/20. If they get relegated we sign him instead of Donny, and I have little doubt that he'd have been fantastic for us.
Kane, Rashford and Sterling are surely more golden boys than he is.
Kane might be, but not the other two for obvious reasons.
Think he got a slight knock against Bournemouth, but nothing serious enough for it to count as "coming back from an injury".
Serious enough to keep him out of contention
On a trophy count perspective it really was a no brainer of course.. but he could sit on the bench all season and still win trophies with this team, so maybe it is a little hollow, maybe he doesn’t care.. he’s picking up millions and part of a winning squad..
if he’s of come here he would of been a starter most weeks and racking up minutes.. but it wasn’t to be.
wouldn’t be surprised if he moves again in 2 seasons time or so
Still, you're not "coming back from an injury" when you've been out for two weeks with a knock, it's not long enough to affect match fitness.
Yeah, don't think he really suits City's setup at all. Think he's best cutting in from the left and dropping deeper to collect the ball and carry it forwards, whereas City have him generally starting high and wide on the left. He can beat a full back in those positions, or play the little passes with full back and LCM that City are drilled in to get past defences, but he's not an improvement on Sterling in that regard, who is also better at making late runs into the box. His best attributes at Villa were carrying the ball from the halfway line, or cutting inside and shooting/crossing from the edge of the box, neither of which he is demonstrating at City.
Massive flop.
Could see him leaving this summer. City don’t mess around and keep players too long who haven’t worked out.
I really wanted United to get him but yeah he’s been underwhelming.
He’s likely worth £50-60m.
He’s likely worth £50-60m.
I think that he was and still is a better fit for us. I didn't like the fee but the player is fine.
He would've fit us like a glove.
Call it what you want, the fact is that he coming back into the squad after he being out with a injury
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A generational talent and the English Ronaldinho some said last summer. They were in tears when City got him and we would see and behold his talent as he would show us within a few matches how wrong the doubters were...
heh.
heh.
How?
He is a guy who needs to monopolize the ball, works when you are the big fish but if you want a develop into a top team where does he fit in?
Can't do much for England either so it is not as if it is a one off.
He's a ball carrier, they already had 2 or 3 of them in KDB, Bernardo and Foden. Strange signing.
Just a classic case of a guy who looks amazing in a small team when they completely play through him and aim to give him the ball every time they get possession but disappears when he becomes a cog in the machine. Zaha another example
City seems to have bought into the hype.
Whatever way you paint it he’s not delivered for £100m
I don't think that he needs to monopolize the ball. And I think that he would have been a better for us because we needed a strong ball carrier, all teams do and we didn't until hopefully Antony.
wearing your socks low and an alice band makes you a top flairy continental player
6 goals 4 assists is the lowest return of the 3
Hello there!
Grealish has been living the life and has no intention of buckling down and grafting for a place in the side.
His application is the bigger concern than his aptitude at the minute, I'd say.
City have purchased someone who is intoxicated by the off the field trappings. Not sure he'd have been the same for us because he would have been a permanent fixture in our side and had every ounce of faith placed in him where as at City it's meh if he's there or not, which he clearly responds terribly to.
His application is the bigger concern than his aptitude at the minute, I'd say.
City have purchased someone who is intoxicated by the off the field trappings. Not sure he'd have been the same for us because he would have been a permanent fixture in our side and had every ounce of faith placed in him where as at City it's meh if he's there or not, which he clearly responds terribly to.