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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola urged Jack Grenish to rely on his performance during the fourth round of the FA Cup against Leyton Orient and shows him “how” the bad “leave him from the ‘ East team.
Grealish has only totaled 599 minutes of football in the Premier League this season, being sentenced to a start by Guardiola barely six times. He played 16 times in all competitions, but fell in the hierarchical order behind Savinho and Jeremy Doku.
City also signed Omar Marmoush of Eintracht Francfurt in January, in an agreement worth 63 million pounds sterling, and the Egyptian is able to play anywhere on the front line – checking the versatility box May Guardiola seek apparently for all players who are not Erling Haaland.
Grealish provided assistance to the late winner of Kevin de Bruyne in the last victory for City return on Saturday, who saw him a match for the first time since the 8-0 destruction of the Ligue Deux de Salford City at the start January.
He is likely to be on the bench for the conflict of the City Champions League with Real Madrid, and Guardiola again put Grealish to prove that he deserves a more important role.
“Jack has this sense of street,” said Guardiola. “He is a street player. Today, most players, for a manager, are academic -“you have to do this or that”. Jack is a fighter. He’s there to fight in stadiums when people cry.
“He did not play the last games, mainly because Savinho on the left side had an incredible connection with Erling [Haaland] But the season is still open.
“But against Orient, I saw the packaging that he will rebel, to show the manager how wrong he is. I love it.”
By further expanding the need for strong competition for the places, Guardiola continued: “Players must understand that it is not new contracts that make them better, it is competition in the locker room and on the field.
“They must feel that they must fight with Savinho and with [Jeremy] Doku. Phil [Foden] can play it too. This is the point. In the end, these are performance and delivery of assists and objectives. “”
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