Jack Grealish "fighting for his Man City future" as Pep Guardiola's "incredibly brutal" comments spell trouble for struggling attacker

Jack Grealish is "fighting for his future" astatine Manchester City and Pep Guardiola's "incredibly brutal" and "really negative" comments spell occupation for the struggling attacker, Citizens adept Steven McInerney from Esteemed Kompany tells Sports Mole.

The 29-year-old has failed to marque the desired interaction for the Citizens this season, featuring successful 14 of the club's 20 Premier League games, but starting lone six times.

While Guardiola has antecedently insisted that Grealish should not solely beryllium judged connected however galore goals oregon assists helium records for Man City, the information that helium went done 2024 without netting a azygous extremity successful 32 appearances has near galore Citizens supporters disappointed.

Grealish has won 3 Premier League titles, the Champions League and the FA Cup since his £100m determination from boyhood nine Aston Villa successful the summertime of 2021, and helium played a cardinal relation successful the Man City broadside that won a historical treble successful 2022-23.

However, present successful the premier years of his career, Grealish has fallen down the pecking bid astatine the Etihad Stadium and Guardiola has made it clear that the England planetary indispensable beryllium to him that helium deserves to triumph backmost his starting spot up of in-form winger Savinho.

While Grealish has been perched connected the substitutes' bench, Savinho has excelled successful Man City's past 2 Premier League matches, contributing with 1 extremity and 4 assists crossed victories implicit Leicester City and West Ham United.

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'Guardiola's quotes work really, truly negatively towards Grealish'

McInerney believes that the awesome emergence of Savinho will spot him "lock down" a starting spot connected the near flank astatine a clip erstwhile Guardiola is "frustrated" with Grealish for aggregate reasons.

"I deliberation Guardiola's quotes connected [Jack] Grealish are incredibly brutal if I'm being honest," McInerney told Sports Mole. "I deliberation they're precise telling close present and Guardiola fundamentally said aft the crippled that Savinho's successful the squad due to the fact that he's the champion option, and helium deserves to beryllium there.

"Given that he's saying that aft a mates of performances connected the left, I don't spot that changing. I deliberation Savinho's going to enactment determination for a while."

"I deliberation the quotes from Guardiola work really, truly negatively towards Jack Grealish," McInerney added. "These aren't what you'd expect to perceive for a feline who's 29, 1 of the highest paid players successful Premier League shot connected a minimum of £300,000 a week, connected a truly bully declaration astatine Man City.

"[Guardiola's quotes] shriek vexation [and he] feels Jack Grealish is coasting. It's precise evident that Guardiola is not happy, successful my opinion, with the work-rate levels oregon the committedness oregon the deficiency of focus."

McInerney feels that Guardiola's determination to talk astir Grealish is "perfectly timed" and helium is not amazed that that Catalan has waited to stock his views connected the Englishman until Man City ended their torrid winless streak.

"I don't deliberation it's a coincidence either that Guardiola has travel retired and said this now," helium added. "I don't deliberation helium would person said it 3 weeks agone erstwhile City were successful the mediate of a losing streak, due to the fact that that's substance connected the occurrence of an already antagonistic camp.

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Does Grealish person the hunger to play for Guardiola astatine Man City?

"When City person won a mates of games, Guardiola's got each close to travel retired and accidental this. It's perfectly timed and I don't deliberation it's anyplace adjacent arsenic explosive arsenic it would person been 3 oregon 4 weeks agone wherever the quality would person been 'City are imploding, everyone hates each other'.

Discussing Grealish's intelligence state, McInerney said: "There's been rumours that Grealish's information hasn't been rather arsenic bully aft [winning] the treble. He said himself publically that helium felt similar helium completed shot and doesn't truly cognize however to travel that.

"I deliberation sometimes radical bash archer you the truth, they conscionable archer you however they consciousness and you tin beryllium determination and instrumentality it arsenic 'oh it's conscionable a small anecdote', oregon you could instrumentality it astatine look worth and spot Grealish erstwhile helium says helium doesn't cognize however to travel it.

"Add to the information that he's a caller dada arsenic well, I deliberation Grealish has got a batch going connected successful his beingness and to maine if you've got Guardiola coming retired and saying this and comparing you to a 20-year-old who's conscionable joined the nine (Savinho) and is fundamentally questioning your hunger, it doesn't look good."

"I truly get the feeling close present that Guardiola is frustrated with Grealish," McInerney continued. "He did combat a batch for him to beryllium determination and helium did triumph a batch with him, but it doesn't substance due to the fact that it was a agelong clip ago.

"Jack Grealish has talent, but close present City request hunger, they request goals, they request energy. I cognize the goals and assists happening has ever been utilized against Jack Grealish, and I bash deliberation determination is simply a script wherever it's not ever the main absorption and it's understandable, but astatine the aforesaid clip City are hopeless for it close now.

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What does the aboriginal clasp for Grealish astatine Man City?

"City are not scoring [enough] goals and the squad needs radical who are bare to people goals, it needs that. [Phil] Foden's not been anyplace adjacent arsenic prolific, the wingers haven't been scoring, truthful Pep's asking for that hunger and that thrust and he's not seeing it.

"You're conscionable not going to play and yet if you're not showing it oregon you're not proving you've got the combat erstwhile City are astatine their lowest ebb for an atrocious agelong time, past it doesn't travel crossed well.

"I don't deliberation you tin fell from that and I deliberation Pep is frustrated, not due to the fact that immoderate players person mislaid a spot of hunger - he's not stupid, helium knows it's going to hap - I deliberation he's frustrated due to the fact that they've mislaid the hunger present (during a mediocre tally of form), and they're not showing it adjacent though helium needs them. I deliberation that's the astir frustrating thing.

"I don't deliberation [Guardiola's quotes] work good astatine all. People could effort and construe them successful a antithetic mode if they want, but I deliberation Jack Grealish is precise overmuch warring for his aboriginal astatine Manchester City Football Club.

"I deliberation that's the inevitable effect of wherever City person been, and someone's going to spell done that if you've had that overmuch success. Right present it feels similar it's Jack Grealish going done it."

Grealish, who came connected arsenic a substitute for the last six minutes of Man City's 4-1 triumph astatine West Ham past weekend, is nether declaration astatine the Etihad until the summertime of 2027.

There are nary suggestions astatine contiguous that Grealish could beryllium connected the determination successful January, but it has antecedently been reported that Tottenham Hotspur whitethorn see an ambitious swoop for the attacker.

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