How Jack Grealisk went from Star Man to Benchwarmer – and who is the culprit

What has Pep Guardiola ever done for Jack Grealish?

Apart from helping him to earn three Premier League titles, one Champions LeagueAn Fa -CupA World Cup Club And more than £ 60 million in wages?

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Well, the Manchester City manager Also has one of the greatest showmans of English football and sucked the joy from the most sympathetic guy, reducing a vibrant shelter to a miserable bank warmer.

Graalis at its best, for his £ 100 million movement by Aston Villa Unpleasant Manchester City In 2021, an old-school was Flair player and a favorite of the terraces for his dribbling power, as well as a style icon and heart stream.

Now are four years Spell at Etihad is coming to an endof Grealish Axed from City’s 27-man team For the club World Cup that starts in the US this weekend.

Grealisk is looking for a new club this summerWhile City has already signed eight players for a total of £ 282 million in 2025.

And it is a miracle why City Boss Guardiola once agreed to detect what was then a British record transfer costs for a player who would probably never fit.

Guardiola is a tactical genius, but he likes that his players are just as obsessive football as he is.

He demands workaholics.

And while Filthy is none playboy Waster, he lives according to the old saying “All the work and no game makes Jack a boring boy”.

City has usually played in a delicious Eye-Candy style under Pep, but his philosophy is all about teamwork, about pass-and-gove, instead of the type of individual flair for which Grealisk was known.

Topless in the rain

It is a testimony of the dear personality of Grealisk that then Stephen O’Donnell of Scotland successfully marked him during a 0-0 draw with England bee Wembley in the Euro From 2021 he killed him with kindness instead of kicking or insulting the Three Lions man.

O’Donnell had followed advice from teammate John McGinn – A Villa colleague from Grealish – about how he can best keep him still.

“John had given me some tips,” O’Donnell revealed.

“He told me that if Jack comes up, I have to nibble in his ear but should not be critical, must be free.

‘So as soon as he came up, I told him how clever he looked, that I loved his calves and I asked him how he got his her To look like this.

“I was told if I kick him or get him very hard, he comes up and to you again.”

That was during Gareth Southgate‘s Reign As England manager, then his restraint to select Grealisk in his starting line-up a lightning rod.

It was seen as proof that the most successful three Lions boss of the past 60 years a negative, cautious stick-in-the-mud was-the majority of Grealish’s 39 caps that came as a replacement.

I love Jack. I love everything to him. I love his personality, I love his quality. The man has courage.

Thomas Tuchel, manager of England

Terrace songs that begged Southgate to put on “Super Jackie Grealish” were the soundtrack for many English matches – anyway Southgate surprisingly omitted He from his team for last summer’s euros.

Southgate rightly believed that Grealish is a player who thrives that he is the most important man in every team, a playmaker, who demands a lot of the ball, a risk leader at his best when he can lace His devil.

That would never be the case with England, who are blessed with so much talent in broad and attacking midfield positions – neither in the city of Guardiola.

The new manager of England Thomas Tuchel said: “I love Jack.

“I love everything to him.

“I love his personality, I love his quality.

“The man has courage.”

And yet Tuchel did not choose Grealish in one of the two squadrons he mentioned because of his serious lack of playing time in City.

Last season, Grealisk started only seven Premier League matches – and only one after Tuchel started the track in England in January.

He managed only one goal and one assistant in the entire league campaign.

Grealishel has told Tuchel that he is “not a stop-start player”, that he craves rhythm and guardiola that he simply did not allowed that this would happen in the past two seasons.

In January Guardiola said he wanted to see ‘the Jack Grealish That won the Treble ”.

Grealisk played an important role when City wiped the board by winning the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in 2023 – although his wings were cut with less emphasis on dribbling and opponents.

But because the iconic image of the brumbled brummie was in the Piddling rain two years ago during the City’s party bus parade, Grealish’s Fortunes were plus.

Seasons of torment

He turns 30 in December, but retains his boyish looks and a childish love for life.

Are interviewswhile in England his duty are great theater – He is funny, fascinating and honest.

But despite its charismatic nature, there is also a vulnerability.

During one interview, when Grealiskh’s lifestyle was in the spotlight, the player told the assembled media: “I just want you to all like me.”

In reality, it is difficult to spend every time in the company of Grealiskh and not like him.

Have been attacked on the field by one Birmingham City fan – He was imprisoned for the incident – during a derby match against Villa, Grealisk would have more reason than most to keep up with supporters.

But in a era of Roped-Off, VIP, multi-millionaire football players, he is one of the most accessible players of big name.

His sober qualities were recently shown when he visited and a social club in Wearside in March and Stuck £ 500 behind the bar For colleague Drinkers.

The person who drew Grealish will recruit a jewel from a player, desperate to express himself after two seasons of torment under Guardiola.

Grealisk is not a one -dimensional character.

He is Jack the Boy and he is also Lord Jack.

He is a sharp amateur -DJ and a Gucci model -one of the various lucrative commercial deals, ranging from Bose Audio equipment to Hellmann’s mayonnaise.

And he is also an ambassador for Special Olympics GB.

His sister Hollie has cerebral palsy And he often communicates personally with disabled people personally and with video messages.

His partner Sasha Attwood Is a model – like many Premier League WAG – but the couple are young people who met at school in Solihull. Their first child, Milawas born in September.

Indeed, indeed, the past year or two would have heard you more about Grealiskh, who carries out a commercial or charity out appearance than playing a game of football.

Hopefully that will change this summer.

Although Grealisk is left over his city contract for another two years, Guardiola is happy that he is leaving, either a permanent deal for around £ 30 million to £ 40 million, or on a loan.

Evertonwho are moving to a swish new stadium next season, belong to the leaders in the race To sign him, together with the German club Bayer Leverkusen – managed by former Manchester United boss Erik Ten Hag.

The person who drew Grealish will recruit a jewel from a player, desperate to express himself after two seasons of torment under Guardiola.

Every enthusiast of football – every enthusiast of life – will enjoy seeing him playing again with a smile on his face.

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