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Jack Grealish

ducavis said:
I don’t think every good player is a world class player. For me Kane isn’t a world class player, English fans would disagree though. He reminds me of peak Higuain who in contrast was actually well decorated but never showed up on the big stage. IMO Peak Higuain was never a world class player. 
As for being surrounded by dross, he got to a CL final and was close to winning the league. You ask some Spurs fan and they will tell you he never turned up at the CL final, and couldn’t drag them to a league title. Not a world class player for me, and if you argue he is then you probably would say Son is a world class player also which he clearly isn’t. 
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Whats your definition on world class? For me its being in the top 5 maybe top 10 of your position in the world... And Kane is clearly a top 5 striker in world football? And Grealish is definitely one of the best left wingers in the world imo.

I agree about Higuain though, he was never world class imo, but at one stage he was a pretty lethal striker for a season or 2 and that was it.

Also the surrounded by dross comment was for Grealish and not Kane, though you could argue the Spurs team are almost just as sh*t anyway!

 
This is why City have managed to become the dominant team in the league.

Don't rest on their laurels when they win and always look to reinvent themselves. World class or not he's a terrific player and with the amount of talent in that squad now you would almost need a miracle to beat them over 38 games.

 
I posted this elsewhere, boy it made me chuckle

"Brilliant sarcasm on football 365, about City mainly and clickbait journalism, one of the best, relating to Grealish, with the mind-blowing headline, "Grealish big city move", cos he was spotted in Dubrovnik, a big city.

 
Sindre said:
This is why City have managed to become the dominant team in the league.

Don't rest on their laurels when they win and always look to reinvent themselves. World class or not he's a terrific player and with the amount of talent in that squad now you would almost need a miracle to beat them over 38 games.
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Let them win the league. Honestly who actually cares? If we spunk £150mil on Haaland then we’ve only won the league because we’ve bought the success. Football isn’t about genuine sporting merit anymore; it’s completely lost it’s identity. All jokes aside with my Haaland posts, in reality, I hate the modern game. I hate knowing that if I was a 6 year old in today’s world, the only player who’d come ever close to a poster on my wall is Mason Mount; when in truth when I was a 6 year old, I had Wise, Zola, Vialli; heck I ever lied about Dennis Wise being my uncle in school once he was that much of a hero to me.

The game has been ruined and tarnished by oil money and state funded projects. I honestly couldn’t give two hoots if City romp home again, or even if we win it. Money coupled with constant acts of petulance, VAR interventions and a genuine loss of identity killed the game. This summer and the rumoured fees for players nailed the coffin; especially in a world tarnished by a pandemic where small countries can’t even get their hands on vaccinations with a combined wealth smaller than Jack f**king Grealish.

 
Sindre said:
This is why City have managed to become the dominant team in the league.

Don't rest on their laurels when they win and always look to reinvent themselves. World class or not he's a terrific player and with the amount of talent in that squad now you would almost need a miracle to beat them over 38 games.
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Honestly City spending 100m on Grealish is far less threatening than if they did on Harry Kane though. He would have been the perfect addition to a squad only lacking striker / false 9 options and some physicality up front. Seemingly they couldn't get him and wanted to move their money elsewhere. I think Grealish is a great left winger, making up for his lack of pace with vision, technique, intelligence and charisma, but he won't significantly improve a squad that already includes Sterling, Foden and de Bruyne.

It's a bit like if we had signed Donnarumma and people would then have said "this is the final puzzle piece that will make Chelsea dominate the PL"

 
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Is Grealish that much better than the likes of Silva, Foden, Torres to warrent such a huge investment? 

Just seems such an odd position for them to invest so heavily in. Are they going to buy Grealish and Kane for a combined £200m+?

Reason we're being linked with spending £100m+ on a centre forward is because we struggled for goals last season. Just trying to wrap my head around City's reasoning for this one. 

 
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This is why City have managed to become the dominant team in the league.
Don't rest on their laurels when they win and always look to reinvent themselves. 
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Only because they have an unlimited budget. If any other club was in their position, they would be doing the same. If we could spend £100m+ every year on players without selling, we would do it, same goes for every other club. 

 
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We aint geting Jack, i was all over this idea last summer.....but no, havertz is a better player anyway..

 
If Grealish is worth £100m, then Haaland is worth double that. Haaland is absolutely worth £150m. Come on Roman, get that cheque book out. 

 
Scott Harris said:
Only because they have an unlimited budget. If any other club was in their position, they would be doing the same. If we could spend £100m+ every year on players without selling, we would do it, same goes for every other club. 
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Looks to me like both Manchester clubs have been doing that but only one is winning titles...

 
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i hope he goes to Citeh, cos i doubt Kane is going to get his move if they do,  resulting in one unhappy Spuds Striker?

 
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Absolute madness. 

This from the team that cook their books. You'd think they'd try to keep their heads down for a bit... 

 
Sometimes I think PL clubs are too rich for their own good. That City squad is a billion dollar investment and they still buy the wrong signings at 100m.

They don't need Grealish at all. They needed a good DM ever since Fernandinho lost his pace

 
I think Grealish brings them goal contributions and a ton of freekicks. If he manages to bring that number up for them they are a much better side. Maybe they also need a proper DM and maybe a new striker. 

If you left out the price from this equation Grealish is a good coup. They have the money as we all know. 

 
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Well like most if not all of you my immediate reaction to this inevitable transfer was incredulousness at the fee.

I then considered that this supplements their reserve of wingers/wide forwards which already includes Sterling, Mahrez, Foden and Torres.

Grealish will win a league title in the next three years (probably in the next one). Man City understand how to strengthen an already good thing. We, the Champions League winners who will likely struggle to qualify for Europe next season, quite obviously don't.

For what it's worth, if we fail to win the league this season it will be our longest dry spell since Abramovich took over.

 
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