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Author Topic: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?  (Read 9033 times)

Offline john e

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2019, 05:36:08 PM »
the questions a no brainer

'Is the best player in the world good enough to play for England'  (and I don't mean Sancho)





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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2019, 05:41:43 PM »
No. That Grealish is rubbish. Over-rated. Hyped-up.

Offline Damo70

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #17 on: March 21, 2019, 05:52:14 PM »
I don't think either of them would look out of place in an England shirt. I would guess Sancho will soon get his chance but I doubt Jack will due to him currently playing in the Championship.

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #18 on: March 21, 2019, 07:35:56 PM »
Butland has been selected so playing in the Championship isn't a barrier to Southgates England squad. I also don't like the insinuation from Bellamy that Jack would be in the squad by now "if he'd got his move in the summer"...if Jack hadn't been injured for the last 3 months and was playing consistently as he is now, then I would make the counter claim that he would have been selected.

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #19 on: March 21, 2019, 07:45:03 PM »
Sancho easily is, guy has many assists for top 10 club in europe.

Jack will be when he's playing in the premier league every week.

It's daft how someone like Grealish would be excluded on the grounds that he isn't an EPL regular, which appears to be the case.

I'm sure he would stand out at a Huddersfield or Cardiff currently but would that make him a better player? What about the pressure he has been under to perform at the most under achieving club in Europe over the past 18 months?

I don't see the comparison really to Taarabt, Knockaert or others that have struggled to make the step up.

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2019, 09:55:15 PM »
Playing against Championship opponents understandably isn’t helping his cause. He has to do it at the top level. If we go up and he shows anything like the form he shows for us now Southgate will pick him immediately because currently the country has nobody that plays like him.

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2019, 10:24:24 PM »
Jack is good enough for sure but he’s played 4 games in nearly 4 months.

Even with my Villa specs firmly on this is still the correct answer.

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #22 on: March 22, 2019, 09:59:52 AM »
Grealish is too good for England. 

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #23 on: March 22, 2019, 10:23:38 AM »
I actually think Jack will shine even more at a higher level. He gets lumps kicked out of him every week in this shitty division with its tin-pot refereeing, and is still the best player on the park by a country mile every time. With a bit more protection, he'll make better defenders look like chumps too.

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #24 on: March 22, 2019, 11:24:58 AM »
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« Last Edit: March 22, 2019, 11:45:02 AM by enigma »

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #25 on: March 22, 2019, 11:43:48 AM »
Sancho is good enough, no question.

As for Grealish, England have plenty of hard working runners in midfield but not many playmaker types who can create chances or take defenders on through the middle. He can be that guy but needs to be playing and producing in the PL. Has the potential to do it and there really isn't too many other options for that type of player.

And frankly, seeing as Southgate has picked the likes of Jake Livermore, Lewis Cook, Nathan Redmond and Jack Cork for England's midfield then I can't see why Grealish can't get in. He has more talent than any of them. The only thing I can see that they have over him is PL football.
« Last Edit: March 22, 2019, 11:45:22 AM by enigma »

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #26 on: March 22, 2019, 12:52:18 PM »
Yes, but I am more than happy that Jack is being overlooked this season

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #27 on: March 22, 2019, 02:29:07 PM »
I actually think Jack will shine even more at a higher level. He gets lumps kicked out of him every week in this shitty division with its tin-pot refereeing, and is still the best player on the park by a country mile every time. With a bit more protection, he'll make better defenders look like chumps too.

Agreed 100%, no way premeditated assaults like that Blues thug (Not the "zulu") did in the derby get tolerated in the top division. A week later the Forest centre half tried to literally kick him into the stand aswell. The days of a Roy Keane kicking everything that moves in the top division or champions league are long gone. But it's nearly very game at our level these hackers try and do him.

He would walk into that Liverpool midfield chasing the title right now, or at the very worst be ahead of Shaqiri or Lallana as first sub in.

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #28 on: March 22, 2019, 11:46:10 PM »
He proved he can play at a high level in the semi v Liverpool. 

Offline dcdavecollett

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Re: Are Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho good enough to play for England?
« Reply #29 on: March 22, 2019, 11:47:59 PM »
He was also brilliant in the game against Everton.

 


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