Grealish is a football nut, his world is football-shaped, the pitch his happy place. The enthusiastic embrace of good time to which he is also prone forms part of the same cultural hinterland that claims working class boys, but football came before the big night out and trumps all.
Guardiola loves skilful types but not individualists. Only one player of supreme ability was allowed his freedom, but then Lionel Messi is arguably the best there has ever been. His uniqueness was so overwhelming the team necessarily benefitted from his instinctive prompts.
Grealish fell out of favour under Pep Guardiola (Photo: Getty)
Grealish seemed to have made the adjustment following his £100m arrival from Aston Villa four years ago, hitting a peak vein in the Treble year.
“When I started working with Pep 18 months ago I noticed how he goes much deeper into football,” Robben, who was 29 at the time, said.
“These days you have guys who are 19 or 20 and they’ve played their first game and they feel they’ve made it. It’s not true. There’s always so much to improve, no matter your age. That’s why I’m really enjoying working with Pep. Young players can learn a lot and even at 26, 27 you can still make big steps.”
His mistake, Ibrahimovic said, was to try to fit in, to adapt to the demands as Robben had, instead of being himself. He was used to being the man. At Barca, Messi was in the way.
There is some of that with Grealish, who at Villa had always been the daddy. He arrived at City expecting to be given the role of Grealish but found himself shackled to a system.
Since he does not have Ibrahimovic’s powerful egotistic tendency and so stuck at it, adapting well enough without ever capturing the sense of the freestyler he was at Villa Park. Yet over time Guardiola’s demands cost him his identity and his explosiveness. He was effectively estranged from himself.
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“Jack is an exceptional player,” Guardiola said before the Club World Cup this summer.
“We decide the best is to stay [behind] and have a place that he can feel like he can come back to be the player like he was in the year of the Treble or all his career in Aston Villa. The fact is in the last two seasons he didn’t play much minutes. He has to come back to play and have the butterflies in his stomach that he can play every three days, every three days and show again the quality he has.”
Enter Moyes and Everton, for whom the signing of Grealish makes perfect sense, a talismanic footballer at a club seeking to re-establish its own identity in a new setting.
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