Transfer Rumour Jack Grealish

[Bluesnapper]

Under Pep, Man City and Barcelona before that, only lets certain players wander out of their set areas.

Left wing is one of those areas.

Needs to get him back to his AV days.

 

[Lanolin]

To add to this, I'd suggest he hasn't been creative for a long time. He has a grand total of 4 goals and 2 assists over the last two full seasons... and that in a team that scores loads of goals and creates loads of chances.

He's had quite a strange career in general really. It seems like people are talking about him as if he's a bona fide legend of the game but he's actually had a fairly a nothingy career either side of a spell between 19/20 and 22/23 (and even 21/22 wasn't great). He's a very talented footballer don't get me wrong, but it would be a massive risk to expect him to instantly just revert back to the level he was at for a relatively short period in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Grealish wants Spurs move

Where you heard this,My lord?

 

[toffee66]

I honestly don’t think Southall made that many great saves that day and he even said that himself, it was a media narrative to make out Utd battered us and but for Southall it would have been 5-1. In reality they hardly created anything

I was sat opposite the edge of our 18 yard box in that second half. It was a siege, albeit a rather haphazard one by United. I agree that they did not carve out loads of clear chances as we defended well with Southall and Watson both hugely vocal organising the team. Southall still made several top saves including one crucial double save. Most importantly he commanded his area, catching and punching with authority.

It was not his vintage peak but he definitely gave his best performance in quite some time under the spotlight on the biggest stage. As for Southall downplaying things, well he always did. He never talked himself up but he was clearly our most important player that day as he had been so many times before.

 

[Kevsleftpeg]

I was sat opposite the edge of our 18 yard box in that second half. It was a siege, albeit a rather haphazard one by United. I agree that they did not carve out loads of clear chances as we defended well with Southall and Watson both hugely vocal organising the team. Southall still made several top saves including one crucial double save. Most importantly he commanded his area, catching and punching with authority.

It was not his vintage peak but he definitely gave his best performance in quite some time under the spotlight on the biggest stage. As for Southall downplaying things, well he always did. He never talked himself up but he was clearly our most important player that day as he had been so many times before.

I'd say Limpar was just as important that day and generally he was by far our most important player throughout the cup run (destroyed Norwich and Spurs and played the key passes against Utd). There is no way we win that without him because, in a similar way to Ndiaye, he was our only player who had genuine quality on the ball.

 

[Fonzy]

He's had quite a strange career in general really. It seems like people are talking about him as if he's a bona fide legend of the game but he's actually had a fairly a nothingy career either side of a spell between 19/20 and 22/23 (and even 21/22 wasn't great). He's a very talented footballer don't get me wrong, but it would be a massive risk to expect him to instantly just revert back to the level he was at for a relatively short period in the grand scheme of things.

Get Jack Harrison back in that case then

With all is 2 assists all season then

 

[degsy]

We're possibly short of bodies...and if Grealish has become a viable option then that's because of our likely short fall in numbers, then a loan is making the best of a bad job, but ffs not on a loan to buy deal.

And there's always the chance he starts really playing again

 

[degsy]

Get Jack Harrison back in that case then

With all is 2 assists all season then

If we get really short he'll be back

 

[JLW]

Take the Pep shackles of Grealish and we have a very exciting player, if it happens.

 

[chippy1722]

Take the Pep shackles of Grealish and we have a very exciting player, if it happens.

Walks straight into our team and only Ndiaye is anywhere near his level.
Unfortunately a lot of fans will prefer a foreign winger they’ve never set eyes on, from a bang average league before Grealish. They will then wonder why we never get decent players.

 

[Lanolin]

Get Jack Harrison back in that case then

With all is 2 assists all season then

Well I'm not sure that they're the only 2 players on planet earth actually mate, but the fact that Grealish only has 2 more goals and 11 more assists than Harrison in their PL careers, having played 20 games more, does actually help quite nicely to illustrate my point so thanks for that.

 

[Evertonthat]

Get Jack Harrison back in that case then

With all is 2 assists all season then

That's 1 more that Grealish made last season

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Get Jack Harrison back in that case then

With all is 2 assists all season then

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Walks straight into our team and only Ndiaye is anywhere near his level.
Unfortunately a lot of fans will prefer a foreign winger they’ve never set eyes on, from a bang average league before Grealish. They will then wonder why we never get decent players.

Grealish has done it all. These are the sort of transfers that will lift everyone’s levels as they try and match his.

 

[toffee66]

Jack Grealish personality and image have arguably always created hype that has to a degree outstripped his production.

He has played 12,764 PL minutes split between a dominant City and meh Villa. He has 27G, 31A or a G/A every 220 minutes. More than respectable but not outstanding, with a decline over the last two seasons to every 286 minutes. That still isn’t bad as it is comparable to Ndiaye (272) but we have no idea if adding Grealish would mean Ndiaye would become less (or more) effective due to changing position. Kevin Mirallas as another comparison played 8812 PL minutes for us with 29G, 21A, a G/A every 176 minutes. Mirallas was clearly a significantly more productive player.

If Grealish was 21 showing his early career promise this would be wildly exciting. At 30 with his known love for partying, ‘OK’ career stats and current trajectory any loan deal would have to be at a huge discount to make sense given the significant number of ‘ifs’ involved trying to project him to us.