Record signing was often peripheral in last season’s big games but now feels he belongs and is showing it on and off the ball
It is safe to assume that Jack Grealish got involved and helped to drink “all the alcohol in Manchester”, as Pep Guardiola had it, after City’s latest Premier League title coronation last month. Of course, he did. Grealish is not, to borrow one of his good-natured jibes, Erling Haaland “sitting in his ice bath”. He loves a night out and is happy to say so. It is a part of his Jack the lad appeal.
With Grealish, there is the sense that he is never more than a few beers from a major PR incident. He is a danger man on and off the pitch and, again, it seems to be why people see him and smile – even when, at times, they know they should not.
