Jack Grealish Next Club Odds: After Man City

Grealish can’t be happy with his role at Man City at the moment with his playing time limited and showing no signs of improving over coming months.

The former Aston Villa man has never been one of Pep Guardiola’s star players and his role looks even more fragile since the addition of Omar Marmoush and, prior to him, Savinho last summer.

If Grealish has ambitions of going to the World Cup next summer, he needs to enhance his playing time one way or another.

The bookies still think a stay at the Etihad is the most likely outcome ahead of next season. There are a couple of reasons that underpin that.

Firstly, Grealish is on big money with any transfer fee to get him out of City, also likely to be sizable, making his next move challenging.

The other factor is that if you are part of the Man City hierarchy, you won’t want to lose Jack Grealish.

Even when not first choice, he is a great squad option, and should you sanction an exit, you’d have to find a way to replace him, and that’s likely to see you come out in a neutral position financially, at best.

Tottenham have regularly been linked with a move for Jack Grealish over the years but for one reason or another, the stars have never quite aligned. Could now be the right time?

It’s certainly a position where Tottenham could do with strengthening. Timo Werner and Wilson Odobert both operate on the left flank, but neither have delivered anything like the performances Spurs need, and Son Heung-Min is not the player he once was; he’ll also be 33-years-old when the new season rolls around.

There are obviously doubts over who will be in the Spurs dugout come next season, but Ange Postecoglou or another, the club need additions before 2025/26 with the current league campaign having been a disaster.

The fact that the club hierarchy have long shown an interest in his signature could well be critical to Grealish’s decision making, with a likely need to feel valued and appreciated.

Grealish would stroll into the Spurs side too, ticking the box of getting regular minutes under his belt, but if they don’t win the Europa League, then he would have to take a rain check on any European ambitions for at least 12 months.

Grealish’s former side are amongst the most fancied teams to fight for his signature over the summer.

Unlike Spurs, Villa will almost definitely be able to offer some form of European football next season, albeit there are still doubts over what level of football that will be. Regardless, Unai Emery is almost definitely going to be on the lookout for attacking additions.

Villa signed Marcus Rashford and Marcus Asensio on loan as wide attacking options in January, with doubts over the long-term future of both of them at Villa Park, whilst the club also sold another left winger in Jaden Philogene in the winter window.

With Grealish a top-tier winger with high-level experience, his name will likely be on any list of targets for a club in Villa’s position, and that’s without considering the connection the player and club have.

Aston Villa and Grealish have both evolved since he left them for City back in the summer of 2021, though, and there is the old saying of “never go back”. Still, with loan options clearly something Villa are keen to do, never say never.

Saudi Pro League teams seem to be in the bookmakers' running for pretty much every high-profile player that could be on the move this summer, but 9/1 on Grealish heading to Saudi Arabia feels like wildly poor value.

From an off-the-field perspective, the 29-year-old doesn’t give the vibes of someone that would suit the lifestyle in the Middle East and, on the pitch, it would be international suicide.

Given Grealish’s previous comments on representing the Three Lions, we just don’t see this sort of move at all.

On the surface, you can make an argument for Jack Grealish being a smart addition for a club like Newcastle.

They’re looking to establish themselves as one of the elite in England, with regular Champions League football the next step in their journey. Grealish’s experiences at City would certainly help with that.

The question marks over such a move, though, are two-fold. From Grealish’s perspective, getting game time is the big thing he needs to nail with his next step.

Can he guarantee getting that with Anthony Gordon and Harvey Barnes currently sharing the left-sided duties at Newcastle?

Probably not without the former moving on, although he has been linked with a move to Liverpool. Newcastle being able to afford a move for Grealish within PSR is the other factor. Again, a high-profile exit would probably have to happen for it to be possible.