Jack Grealish hasn’t enjoyed the best 18 months at Manchester City, scoring seven goals with four assists from 55 appearances in all competitions and Wayne Veysey of Football Insider believes he’s ‘devastated’ as a sale could be on the horizon.
The ‘struggling’ 26-year-old is currently with the England national team for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar but hasn’t set the place alight for the Three Lions with no goal in eight appearances and only one assist in 13 months, so not much is going his way since leaving Aston Villa in the summer of 2021.
But despite his inconsistency in Manchester and his lack of goal contributions in the last season-and-a-half, Grealish won’t be sold. He cost City £100m and earns £300k-per-week, so there aren’t many clubs that can realistically afford him, let alone want to sign an expensive and underperforming playmaker.
Pep Guardiola has stood by Grealish and has started him in three of City’s last four Premier League games, so he won’t be forced out. City have won 8/8 league outings when the 26-year-old has played. When he doesn’t, they’ve lost two and drawn one of three matches.
There isn’t a club in Europe that actually want to sign him with his lowly output, nor would Grealish want to leave so soon into his City career, so reports suggesting otherwise can’t be true.
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