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The RJW63 Official Jack Grealish Appreciation Thread


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1 hour ago, villaglint said:

Southgate has said several times that Jack is playing LW for Villa and therefore competing for a a lot against Rashford and Sterling in the England squad. Even if he’s had his best year stats wise for us it’s still not as good as the numbers they posted. 

If we wants to get in the England team it needs to be in a central midfield box to box role. I’m sure this has not been lost on Jack and is probably the reason why we are looking at the likes of Rashica/Benrahma who play that LW role.

On this squad I of course would have picked him. But to play CM. He isn’t better than Rashford, Sterling IMO he’s better in other ways but the top end of the pitch is all about pace in the modern game. He’s better than Ward Prowse and he’s better than Mount, Foden too. But Southgate only sees him as a LW for some reason.

Im not surprised in the slightest he hasn’t called him up. Nothing’s changed since the last squad except for Grealishs form to get worse. He was not great in the main post lockdown and not great for a little bit before lockdown. 

Its clear Southgate doesn’t rate him which is odd. Seems to want solid cloggers and then to rely on Kane, Rashford, Sterling, Sancho. 

This is really bad news for us IMO.

It'll drive a wedge in between Grealish and Smith/RO'K given that Grealish hasn't been able to play in his preferred position there AMC for the good of the (poor) team. We don't have the quality to provide him the supporting cast to play that position for us. Grealish said at various points in the season he wanted to play there but couldn't due to our setup.

It'll re-enforce the idea that a move to a bigger club might mean he can play in an AMC postition e.g. Arsenal?

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Can see us getting two attackers in before the start of the season and possibly a third closer to the deadline - can't see him being happy 'filling in' at wide forward again when we've got a whole window to bring in additions with no shortage of cash...

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