Jack Grealish

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JamDav1982

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The massive chip on shoulder some have about EPL as ever sensational.

No one in EPL gives two fucks how La Liga fans rate their players...happy enough to watch them pick up CL medals and go further in intl competitions as have better players. Fairly simple.

Busquets is irrelevant to them and no one cares about anyone being 'next Busquets'.

Grealish has been good this season and usual folk made out he was shite away to Real and Carvajal owned him etc when was not even remotely the case. He schooled Carvajal over those two legs big time and been an important player for best team in world.

While some salivate for likes of Gavi who can barely make 20 passes a game at times.

Levels.
 
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Zidane82

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Don Juan Laporta Estruch said:
I don't hate English players at all, but I find Jack's play incredibly uninspiring and thought the same even when he was at Villa. I think that he will not be City first choice by the start of 2024 at the very latest. Pep will push himself to make 1 or 2 changes to freshen things up and he will be the prime candidate.

As for Bellingham, I actually expect him to start off fairy well but, as the league gets used to what type of player he is, he will tail off and end up as a somewhat disappointing signing. This could take as long as a season to occur though.
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You cannot of watched much of Jack or City last season
 
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Temptation

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Grealish really is used like a chess piece at City. When the ball gets to him, it sticks, in turn allowing his teammates to recompose themselves or make off the ball runs that they otherwise can't. Grealish either gets to where he wants or he is fouled, both outcomes ideal for City. So many times, he sets off and the marker is unable to make a clean tackle on him so it reaches an impasse that doesn't look like much, but if you look at all the things happening whilst Grealish just 'stands there,' you see that he is a really important piece for Pep in these big games, not only in getting his own team up the pitch in an orderly manner, but also in forcing the opposition to slow down.

Grealish is not the player he was at Villa with the artistry, unpredictability and freedom of expression, but it's very clear he's a go-to guy in the biggest games and is very important for City despite not looking flashy or like he's doing much. He's a very difficult player to stop - you can know exactly what he intends to do but still have a difficult time dispossessing him or preventing it from happening. Like Rice for Arsenal, he's not some all-action man justifying his fee with mind-boggling feats, but in terms of what the team requires of him, he's justifying his fee and that will be justified by how many of the biggest games he is picked for.

Probably the best example of just how joyless Guardiola makes football. A youngish, exciting talent who was great to watch, reduced to a drone like ball carrier doing the same annoying function ad nauseum.

There have been and will be many more trophies but at what cost? There won’t be too many highlight packages when he retires. @fergus90

Pep and City are a perfect match in that sense. Both know how to run things very well with unlimited financial resources but lack the soul, entertainment value and the pure joy of Football. City and Pep keep winning but nobody really gives a fuck. Very few people love or hate them. A robotic, soul-less winning machine.
 
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No it’s more like Pep figured out how to use a very limited player. Grealish does not play artistically for England either.
 
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Porque

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Temptation said:
Grealish really is used like a chess piece at City. When the ball gets to him, it sticks, in turn allowing his teammates to recompose themselves or make off the ball runs that they otherwise can't. Grealish either gets to where he wants or he is fouled, both outcomes ideal for City. So many times, he sets off and the marker is unable to make a clean tackle on him so it reaches an impasse that doesn't look like much, but if you look at all the things happening whilst Grealish just 'stands there,' you see that he is a really important piece for Pep in these big games, not only in getting his own team up the pitch in an orderly manner, but also in forcing the opposition to slow down.

Grealish is not the player he was at Villa with the artistry, unpredictability and freedom of expression, but it's very clear he's a go-to guy in the biggest games and is very important for City despite not looking flashy or like he's doing much. He's a very difficult player to stop - you can know exactly what he intends to do but still have a difficult time dispossessing him or preventing it from happening. Like Rice for Arsenal, he's not some all-action man justifying his fee with mind-boggling feats, but in terms of what the team requires of him, he's justifying his fee and that will be justified by how many of the biggest games he is picked for.

Probably the best example of just how joyless Guardiola makes football. A youngish, exciting talent who was great to watch, reduced to a drone like ball carrier doing the same annoying function ad nauseum.

There have been and will be many more trophies but at what cost? There won’t be too many highlight packages when he retires. @fergus90

Pep and City are a perfect match in that sense. Both know how to run things very well with unlimited financial resources but lack the soul, entertainment value and the pure joy of Football. City and Pep keep winning but nobody really gives a fuck. Very few people love or hate them. A robotic, soul-less winning machine.
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He's Pep's Steve McManaman.

That fucker used to annoy the bejeezus out of me at Madrid. When he was brought on, you knew the result was complete and he would get the ball in attack, dribble a bit then circulate it without ever losing it.
 
jamrock

jamrock

Senior Member
His game isn't that complete that's it requires a write up, he's a very good player with limitations,that works well in peps system.
 
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Jenks

Jenks

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Guardiola basically uses him as a control mechanism. He'll retain possession, get you into the final third with control of the ball, create attacking situations and if the opposition try to press that away he'll just win free kicks for you instead. This is completely at odds with how he played at Villa though, where he had free reign to do pretty much whatever he wanted.

 
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vegitot

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Because play for team to win tittle is different than play for a mid table team with no purpose (not relegate i guess). So if you are a good player in a mediocre side, you can do everything you want. But when you are in top side, with top players that are just as good or even better than you, you have to change. Raphinha for example. He did everything he wanted with Leeds but now with Barca, he can't play like that (simple not at Ronaldinho's level to play with full freedom).

Don't think Grealish can play the same way he played with Villa if he played for Chelsea/Utd... instead of City. He can't do that with England either.
 
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