Has Pep ruined his career? I’m sure the league titles and other trophies say otherwise but it’s fair to say he’s been a flop signing at £100 million. He hasn’t scored a goal for over a year and the flair has been coached out of him to the point where the maverick, exciting player we saw at Villa just doesn’t exist anymore.
Pep is a great manager but if I was a player like Grealish I probably wouldn’t go and play for him. Yes the benefits are obviously good in terms of trophies but if you become a shadow of the player you once were you just kinda sell your soul.
Perhaps I’m wrong and Grealish is just happy to have a trophy cabinet that Harry Kane would kill for. Interesting debate as to what matters more. Trophies or maximising your potential?
Jack Grealish
posted on 21/12/24
comment by #4zA (U22472)
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comment by Barf Vader (U15867)
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Pick the ball up out wide, trot forward a couple of yards until the opponent is in close proximity.
If the opponent doesn't make a challenge, turn around and make a sideways or backwards pass. Receive praise for keeping possession.
If the opponent does make a challenge, wait for contact and fall to the floor and plead to the ref. Receive praise for winning a 'foul'.
Has football ever been this easy?
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Jake wudderhad an ass-cyst 2day if Gvardylol had scoared
posted on 21/12/24
comment by Don Draper's dandruff (U20155)
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comment by #4zA (U22472)
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one is a good ol down home white boy ‘lad’ n the other is a ‘uppity’ black man
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ah, the sterling paradox. remember when he got 130 odd goals and assists for city - c. 6 x what grealish has managed - and that was all down to robot pep telling him exactly where to stand for those 90 tap-ins? he was too stupid to figure it out for himself, whereas grealish knows exactly what he wants to do, but robot pep won't let him.
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yup
posted on 21/12/24
robot pep = C-3Pepo
posted on 21/12/24
Pep really has made a mess of them hasn’t he? Especially over the last few transfer windows.
Sterling
Alvarez
Sane
Mahrez
Gundogan (2023 version)
All let go and not replaced with adequate replacements…
posted on 21/12/24
Oh and not to mention Palmer haha
posted on 21/12/24
Pep is the Borg queen. You must assimilate
posted on 22/12/24
1. I dont think Grealish a shadow of the player he was at Villa. He just hasn't improved since being at City.
2. If he Grealish had gone to United instead, he would have been a United legend. Like Gazza and Shearer would have been.
posted on 22/12/24
2. If he Grealish had gone to United instead, he would have been a United legend. Like Gazza and Shearer would have been.
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Would have ended up like Antony or Alexis Sanchez.
posted on 22/12/24
Price tag is the problem. He has never been a goalscorer, so when people talk about his lack of goals, yeah he's on a bit of a drought but he's never been prolific. For 100m though understandably you expect someone to be chipping in around 20 league goals as an attacking midfielder, but that's just not part of his game. Great in the treble season, not a 100m midfielder though.
posted on 22/12/24
It's not his fault he cost 100 million. We've utterly rinsed City and they've ended up with a player we never saw at Villa. He was overhyped like all English players tbf but he definitely had the quality to excel in a top 6 side and be the player he was touted as. The robotic City machine has just swallowed him and he's also surrounded by better players that have just over shadowed him.
Best bit of business we've ever done really and we've moved on without him. He wouldn't get in our strongest 11 now either.
Got all the baubles and lots and lots of money but the smile and free roaming maverick style went long ago.