James Maddison

[double0]

Grealish is better than Maddison. He can play in tighter positions has a nice burst of pace driving forward I'm more excited at the prospect of Grealish with the players we have in our squad.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Grealish can stay at Villa, JM would be a much better option IMO .I wonder how Poch feels today with no signings made a month after our season ended ?

• Arsenal:
  • Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus)
• Chelsea:
  • Nobody
• Liverpool:
  • Fabinho (Monaco)
  • Naby Keita (RB Leipzig)
• Manchester City:
  • Nobody
• Manchester Utd:
  • Diogo Dalot (FC Porto)
  • Fred (Shakhtar)

So, thus far two of our immediate rivals have signed nobody, and two of our immediate rivals have strengthened with a 34 year old Swiss Right Back who would at best be our second choice and block the path of the potentially exceptional Kyle Walker-Peters, a 19 year old Portuguese right back with an entire 6 first team appearances to his name in a league weaker than this countries second tier, a an albeit very good central midfielder who they already have a better player (Matic) to do the exact same role.

Liverpool have on the face of it done some great business with Fabinho and Keita, the former is basically going to be a direct replacement for Can, Can having left for free and Fabinho arriving for £44m, and Keita having been wrapped up a year ago anyway.

So, unlike you and many others in this nuthouse of a forum, I believe Pochettino's knickers remain rather untwisted, his toys firmly in pram and his bed completely dry.

Oh, and Grealish is better than Maddison.

 

[Hengy1]

• Arsenal:
  • Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus)
• Chelsea:
  • Nobody
• Liverpool:
  • Fabinho (Monaco)
  • Naby Keita (RB Leipzig)
• Manchester City:
  • Nobody
• Manchester Utd:
  • Diogo Dalot (FC Porto)

So, thus far two of our immediate rivals have signed nobody, and two of our immediate rivals have strengthened with a 34 year old Swiss Right Back who would at best be our second choice and block the path of the potentially exceptional Kyle Walker-Peters, a 19 year old Portuguese right back with an entire 6 first team appearances to his name in a league weaker than this countries second tier.

Liverpool have on the face of it done some great business with Fabinho and Keita, the former is basically going to be a direct replacement for Can, Can having left for free and Fabinho arriving for £44m, and Keita having been wrapped up a year ago anyway.

So, unlike you and many others in this nuthouse of a forum, I believe Pochettino's knickers remain rather untwisted, his toys firmly in pram and his bed completely dry.

Oh, and Grealish is better than Maddison.

Man U have summed Fred too

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Man U have summed Fred too

Good quick spot, thanks. Overrarching point still stands though. Untwisted, unthrown, dry.

 

[the lad]

• Arsenal:
  • Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus)
• Chelsea:
  • Nobody
• Liverpool:
  • Fabinho (Monaco)
  • Naby Keita (RB Leipzig)
• Manchester City:
  • Nobody
• Manchester Utd:
  • Diogo Dalot (FC Porto)
  • Fred (Shakhtar)

So, thus far two of our immediate rivals have signed nobody, and two of our immediate rivals have strengthened with a 34 year old Swiss Right Back who would at best be our second choice and block the path of the potentially exceptional Kyle Walker-Peters, a 19 year old Portuguese right back with an entire 6 first team appearances to his name in a league weaker than this countries second tier, a an albeit very good central midfielder who they already have a better player (Matic) to do the exact same role.

Liverpool have on the face of it done some great business with Fabinho and Keita, the former is basically going to be a direct replacement for Can, Can having left for free and Fabinho arriving for £44m, and Keita having been wrapped up a year ago anyway.

So, unlike you and many others in this nuthouse of a forum, I believe Pochettino's knickers remain rather untwisted, his toys firmly in pram and his bed completely dry.

Oh, and Grealish is better than Maddison.

Good Evening Daniel

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Good Evening Daniel

So you think that our rivals have left us behind then this summer and outdone us?

Or do you just have an axe to grind because by this point in your football manager save you were able to sign Messi for Spurs in between gcse revision?

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

So you think that our rivals have left us behind then this summer and outdone us?

Or do you just have an axe to grind because by this point in your football manager save you were able to sign Messi for Spurs in between gcse revision?

Savage

 

[Lily White Lady]

Leicester it is for Maddison. Good luck to him. Think he could be decent but doubt he would have got a look in for us in all honesty.

 

[Luka Van der Bale]

• Arsenal:
  • Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus)
• Chelsea:
  • Nobody
• Liverpool:
  • Fabinho (Monaco)
  • Naby Keita (RB Leipzig)
• Manchester City:
  • Nobody
• Manchester Utd:
  • Diogo Dalot (FC Porto)
  • Fred (Shakhtar)

So, thus far two of our immediate rivals have signed nobody, and two of our immediate rivals have strengthened with a 34 year old Swiss Right Back who would at best be our second choice and block the path of the potentially exceptional Kyle Walker-Peters, a 19 year old Portuguese right back with an entire 6 first team appearances to his name in a league weaker than this countries second tier, a an albeit very good central midfielder who they already have a better player (Matic) to do the exact same role.

Liverpool have on the face of it done some great business with Fabinho and Keita, the former is basically going to be a direct replacement for Can, Can having left for free and Fabinho arriving for £44m, and Keita having been wrapped up a year ago anyway.

So, unlike you and many others in this nuthouse of a forum, I believe Pochettino's knickers remain rather untwisted, his toys firmly in pram and his bed completely dry.

Oh, and Grealish is better than Maddison.

Superb post mate, and I’ve Winnered it as is appropriate. But Fred is a box to box player and seems to be very creative - he isn’t another Matic at all and will likely form a midfield 3 with he and Pogba.

 

[JonnySpurs]

My personal opinion is that Grealish isn't necessarily better than Maddison, i think they're very different and if we were talking stats for the season then Maddison blows Grealish out of the water. That said it doesn't really matter as JM is off to Leicester who, despite my dislike for them, are quietly doing some nice business this summer.

Good luck to the kid. If he does dislike Spurs then I'll take great pleasure in us smashing Leicester again next season with him in the side

 

[Atomic Flea]

Maddison seems like a direct replacement for Eriksen, as he plays predominately in a central role. This could have been a reason as to why we didn't sign him as his chance of game time could be limited. Whereas with Grealish, he can play centrally and in wide positions a lot more comfortably than Maddison.

Maddison will be a good signing for Leicester and I guess they're already spending their Mahrez money in a bid to replace him if he goes.

 

[daryl hannah]

Maddison seems like a direct replacement for Eriksen, as he plays predominately in a central role. This could have been a reason as to why we didn't sign him as his chance of game time could be limited. Whereas with Grealish, he can play centrally and in wide positions a lot more comfortably than Maddison.

Maddison will be a good signing for Leicester and I guess they're already spending their Mahrez money in a bid to replace him if he goes.

It certainly feels more like this is a plausible reason we are not signing him, rather than Grealish 'being better' despite his goal scoring and assist stats being well below Maddison's.

 

[Luka Van der Bale]

It certainly feels more like this is a plausible reason we are not signing him, rather than Grealish 'being better' despite his goal scoring and assist stats being well below Maddison's.

Modric’s goal scoring and assist stats are well below a lot of comparable players. We aren’t buying Grealish for that role.

 

[daryl hannah]

Modric’s goal scoring and assist stats are well below a lot of comparable players. We aren’t buying Grealish for that role.

Modric plays a different position - as in, he's not a 10, right????

 

[Ghost Hardware]

Superb post mate, and I’ve Winnered it as is appropriate. But Fred is a box to box player and seems to be very creative - he isn’t another Matic at all and will likely form a midfield 3 with he and Pogba.

Was going to post the same, Fred was a very good buy who could work very well for them, will allow Pogba to be more free to express himself. Would have been a good get for us

 

[dontcallme]

I remember reading a lot of positive things regarding Maddison when we were linked to him at Coventry, for both his ability and attitude.

Norwich supporting mate is a big fan too. Because of this I am interested but not through anything first hand.

 

[$hoguN]

Going to go against the grain here and say that I think Maddison is better than Grealish. They play slightly different positions but from what I have seen Maddison has the ability to make things happen on a more regular basis

 

[Luka Van der Bale]

Modric plays a different position - as in, he's not a 10, right????

Nor is Grealish. Maddison is. That's my point.

 

[daryl hannah]

Nor is Grealish. Maddison is. That's my point.

Grealish, not only wears the no.10, but played 33 games in AM last season. It seems from transfermarkt, not once did he play the 8 in CM.

Maddison played 44 games in AM, and 3 in CM, scoring 15 goals and assisting 12.

 

[yanno]

Grealish, not only wears the no.10, but played 33 games in AM last season. It seems from transfermarkt, not once did he play the 8 in CM.

Maddison played 44 games in AM, and 3 in CM, scoring 15 goals and assisting 12.

Then transfermarkt clearly didn't watch any Villa games.

As per many previous posts in the Grealish thread from the likes of @Luka Van der Bale and me, Villa played a 4-1-4-1 for the second half of the season, with Jedinak or Whelan as the DM, and Grealish and Hourihane as the CMs.

As Grealish is head and shoulders Villa's most talented player, their attacks flowed through him. But he was a creative CM, not the 10 that we know from his younger days.

Grealish can play as a 10, and will probably be the Eriksen understudy for us. But he proved last season he can play deeper, and I suspect Poch has plans to try to develop him into an English Dembele, as he once nearly tried with a player with a similar skillset in Ross Barkley.