Jack Grealish

While we didn’t concede a huge number of goals, I can think of specific ones where Rice would have made a difference. In particular, Schar’s in Dublin. Rice is robust in those situations and is not easily beaten in the tackle. He also is exceedingly good with passes from defensive areas, most notably I saw him making a tackle and making a defence splitting past to Anderson whole on the ground.

If I conceded it would only be to say I think they would compliment each other. But to me, Rice has been the more consistent player and is a modern CDM which is imperative in football.  

Ffs  

 

Yes, he would have improved our midfield but comparing him to Gareth Bale is rather stretching it.

Yes, Grealish is a special player and has always been a special talent, unlike Rice, who isn't

Rice at best will be a functional player, he has nothing special to recommend him

Grealish was the key player in driving his team to an FA Cup final in 2015, beating Liverpool at Wembley, which is a lot more than Rice has done at that age

Anybody who saw him play for Villa in the latter stages of the 2014/15 season knew he was a special talent 

That's exactly what he is

He has the touch of a rapist

Pep also said Fred and Matic are incredible players last night.

He's a very different player to Zaha. I'd agree with Sid and the comparison to Gascoigne. Grealish can be massive player for England as he offers something very different to all their other attacking midfielders. 

Lads here who are questioning him, you mustn't be watching much of him over the past 12 months. He played a massive role in getting Villa up to the PL in the 2nd half of last season, and this season he has almost single handedly kept Villa in with a chance of staying up.

England will be making a massive mistake if he isn't starting for them on the summer. Would love to see him go to Liverpool in the summer and play under Klopp. Wouldn't surprise me to see City pay huge money for him though and push Foden back down the pecking order again even with Silvas retirement.

Imo, he should be a certainty in any PL team of the year selections also.

Rice is the exact type of player whose limitations become glaringly obvious in knockout international games. He's an athlete with sod all creative ability and ball playing or ball controlling instincts. He's grand for running about a lot and closing down space within a protected framework but when he has to think, he's fecked. He's the prototype British type athlete turned footballer. He's Scott McTominay, Jack Rodwell, Micah Richards, Eric Dier. I said this last year but the very most he could hope to be is a Jordan Henderson type. I love Hendo but even he would admit to not being the most gifted footballer and it's the great coaching of Klopp and to a lesser extent Rodgers and being able to exist within a devastatingly effective framework which has turned him into the player he is. But at international level his weaknesses get cruelly exposed. 

Grealish is the exact type of player who would thrive in the sort of situation that England generally find themselves in at international level, ie. tight, tense knockout games which often go to extra time, and he's the exact sort of player they've lacked for years, a pure ball player with total confidence in his own ability to make a game revolve around him, the sort of ability that only the likes of Xavi and Modric have had in recent years. Rices are ten a penny.