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Jack Grealish | Man City
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) review both the Everton and Bodø/Glimt victories at Old Trafford. Listen to the guys discuss 2 wins and 7 goals in the last week, analyse of the Amorim formation, focus on Amad and how he is playing, and also take a look at Hojlund, Rashford & Zirkzee – who starts v Arsenal?
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Doku plays like Jack did at his previous club. But better.
Their play styles are totally different, surely?
No he doesn't. They play nothing alike at all.
They are at City. Jack is more of a ball carrier and offers more control and passing. More mature than Doku imo currently.
Doku is more bursts of pace, runs, dribbles etc. plays more like Sane or Sterling did at City.
However I think Jack was more like Doku previously. Doku has more raw talent imo.
So Jack didn't play more like Doku at his previous club?
No.
Even Jack would disagree with you.
I disagree with you.
Eh?
Grealish at Villa tended to drift inwards to pockets of space from the left and was primarily a creative ball carrier with excellent close control and movement. He had a great turn and half turn with back to goal, could keep possession and cut open defenders with great passing.
Doku holds the width, drives at the defense and takes the man on 1 on 1 with pace and power in wide areas, something grealish never does.
They are nothing alike.
Grealish at Villa tended to drift inwards to pockets of space from the left and was primarily a creative ball carrier with excellent close control and movement. He had a great turn and half turn with back to goal, could keep possession and cut open defenders with great passing.
Doku holds the width, drives at the defense and takes the man on 1 on 1 with pace and power in wide areas, something grealish never does.
They are nothing alike.
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Marcus Rashford has scored three goals under Rubin Amorim.
That's over 10% of Jack Grealish's goals in the premier league ever.
That's over 10% of Jack Grealish's goals in the premier league ever.
Yeah he cost 100m, contributes nothing but cheap freekicks from dives, and hasnt scored in the Premier League in over a year but somehow gets a lot less stick than Antony.
Did he play as an 8 against pool? Pep should try him there. Can't be worse than Gundo and Rico.
He’s honestly such a waste of money when you consider how fecking expensive he is. Pep also sucked all the enjoyability out of him.
350 days since he last scored in the Premier League with 1 assist in the league in the last 461 days.
Anthony levels of output and hardly a word said about it cos he's Jack the lad.
Anthony levels of output and hardly a word said about it cos he's Jack the lad.
And because it's City and nobody really cares.
Wasted so much of his talent at City. He would be a star anywhere else
This is it
It's a shame Pep ruined him, was one of the most entertaining players in the league at Villa
He's long since left my club so I don't have to defend him but the difference is he did play a big part in them winning the treble in 22/23 when he was starting pretty much every week so that's the difference.
Plenty also noticed he wasn't doing much at Man. City when he was left out of the Euros squad which should've been the big wake up call for him.
However he's become a non-entity at Man. City since then and should move on but his wages will be insane so can only see them loaning him out, probably a Sancho type deal.
He won't look at it as a poor career move, and it wasn't when you look at what he has won. But fecking hell, as a footballer, this move was sad.
He should go back to Villa and be the main man there. He used to be great to watch. He has his wealth and his medals now, time to go back and enjoy the rest of his time as a footballer.
Creatively, Villa could do with him and I am sure he would be welcomed back.
Creatively, Villa could do with him and I am sure he would be welcomed back.
Don’t blame the adorable Jack the lad. It’s that bald Pep who hate Ronaldinhos. First he ruined the old Ronaldinho and now he’s ruined the modern day one.
That "modern day Ronaldinho" comment was iconic. 
Non existent when he came on. Like he didn’t want to be on the pitch.
Someone called him a generational talent.
Sound logic but he wasnt dubbed as Ronaldinho, he was Beckhamdinho.
If we had picked up a “budding” English talent for £100m, one not actually needed, and proceeded to ruin his talents, we would have been crucified in the media.
Was only ever good for drawing freekicks, the most predictable outcome ever under a Pep team where most of the plays don’t go through him.
There was a strand of thought during that summer window that Sancho would be better for City and Grealish better for us. Thoughts now?
Sounds like a daft thought in the first place considering Pep’s disdain for Sancho after he fecked off to Germany in the first place, not to mention that the latters mentality would be ill-suited for the environment at Manchester City. Obviously, Sancho is a lot more suited to City’s setup rather than ours, also, we wanted Sancho to play off the right instead of someone playing off the left, which was occupied by Rashford. So it’s not like it made a lot of sense to bring in someone that would be more of a natural first choice there.
As a theory on paper, without taking into account anything else, knowing how things turned out, Grealish would’ve obviously suited us better than what we ended up with, but i doubt Sancho would’ve been much of a success at City.
And let another English player go to a rival , who immediately established himself as one of the best players in the league while doku and savinho stink out city
City was a terrible move, if you watched the two England games where Carsley trusted him and put him in the 10, he's a lovely footballer to watch with that trust. At City, his job is hog the touchline and make space in the middle, run up 10 yards and pass the ball back/sideways. Rinse repeat. There's a reason why Doku, Savio and Grealish have terrible goal records. Not like they've particularly unbelievable end products or anything, but they are getting pretty screwed over by that system.
Other have alluded to it, but it can never be seen as a poor career move for Grealish given the amount of trophies won though his contribution to them have been fairly minimal at best. People will say about his role in the treble-winning season however it’s not like he was absolutely critical in those trophies (probably not even top five in terms of importance).
He’s just been nowhere close to justifying that £100m fee whichever way you spin it. Need to actually contribute goals and assists on a regular basis if you’re an attacking player. For the sake of his career, he should leave.
He’s just been nowhere close to justifying that £100m fee whichever way you spin it. Need to actually contribute goals and assists on a regular basis if you’re an attacking player. For the sake of his career, he should leave.
Into his 4th season now and he has scored 14 goals for City. For some context, Antony has just started his 3rd season in a hopelessly dysfunctional united attack at times, and has 12.
Left his boyhood club where he was captain, for a team of mercenaries happy to take part in cheating, and all he'll have to show for it is a couple of medals with an asterisk branded on the back of them. Perhaps sums up city more than any player.
Left his boyhood club where he was captain, for a team of mercenaries happy to take part in cheating, and all he'll have to show for it is a couple of medals with an asterisk branded on the back of them. Perhaps sums up city more than any player.
It was the ambitious thing to do to join City. He probably thought he could reproduce the success he had at Villa and become a key cog in Pep's setup. It was not meant to be
Pep is clearly jealous of that beautiful head of hair that Jackie boy has.
Whilst it’s great to use him as a parable for all that’s wrong with *, it’s probably worth remembering that his attitude has been questioned at times too. His ‘lad’ persona isn’t founded on fresh air.
Also struggled after a burglary last year, which must be horrible for anyone involved and traumatic for a considerable time after.
That’s not to say he’s a bad person, or weak minded. Just that there’s a lot more in the mix than ‘because *’.
Guess life is complicated
Also struggled after a burglary last year, which must be horrible for anyone involved and traumatic for a considerable time after.
That’s not to say he’s a bad person, or weak minded. Just that there’s a lot more in the mix than ‘because *’.
Guess life is complicated
Soft spot for the guy ever since the way he handled that getting assaulted on the pitch. He's a folk hero type so should go be a lynchpin at Everton or somewhere.