What interested clubs must consider before trying to sign Jack Grenish

Although he has not yet left Manchester City, there is a certain certainty to Jack Grenish carrying the colors of another club at the start of the 2025/26 season.

The 29 -year -old English international fell so far under the word under Pep Guardiola that he was not even selected to go to the Club World Cup, a competition that City left earlier than expected after an amazing defeat against the Saudi Giants of Saudi Pro League, Al Hilal.

One goal and two assists in 2024/25

Although Grealish is certainly a player you would pay to look, we can perfectly understand the position of the Catalans.

In the entire 2024/25 campaign, the attacking midfielder managed a lean one and two assists in 21 appearances.

Even if we take into account that he only started in eight of these games – and his total minutes in all competitions (805) has increased to less than a total of nine games – it’s still good below the standards that Guardiola has set for the Cityzens.

The team itself was well below the peer when you put in context what happened before, of course, therefore Grenish was not alone in the underperformance; However, it is not an exaggeration to say that Grenish really did not work at all.

A shooting precision of only 6.7% showed that even if he could beat his man, something else that did not happen often enough in 2024/25, there was little chance that he finds the net.

This is perhaps why the statistics would indicate that he preferred to play in a teammate, given his 91% precision in the Premier League.

Original and earth-to-terre

The nature of Swashbuckling with which Grenalish plays the game is extremely pleasant to look at from the point of view of a supporter. Fans identify with its originality and their earth-to-terre behavior at a time when everyone in the eye of the public seems to have been formed by the media.

It could earn hearts and minds, but he does not win football matches.

When you try only nine plated over a whole season and you only win five, it is clear that you do not give the best.

It is difficult to get a rhythm when you are in and out of a team, it is true, although a player must affect the game when you have the opportunity, and this is where Grenish has reached badly in 2024/25.

During the winning season of City, for example, Grenish was much more capable of both in his scorer and his production of aid as well as his general contribution.

Five goals and seven assists are his best to date for the club (2022/23), while the 989 passes attempted are the longest he has made in a campaign for City.

274 individual duels attempted compared to only 19 last season is another incredible indicator of the quantity of Grealish passers -by had become in certain matches, while 25 stormy plated are almost three times more than last season. 16 won is more than three times what he succeeded in 2024/25.

Do the triples gain the reason for the bad form of Grenish?

The story that players have in a way “finished football” if they manage to win the triples of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the Champions League are a non -argument, very frankly, and shows only a lack of professionalism if such a success leads a player to remove the foot of the accelerator – as Grenalish seems to have done so.

So what is the next step?

With the World Cup in a year, Grenish could consider that a decent season in 2025/26 will be, at the very least, will offer him the possibility of being in the conversation when Thomas Tuchel appoints his last team.

The German showed that he knew his own mind by bringing the players back into the international fold that many had thought of having seen the last of a shirt in England.

Will anyone really want to risk buying a player who is a few seasons costs 100 million pounds sterling, but who probably is not worth much more than fifth of that now?

If he can do well in a new club – and that the reports suggest that the Italian giants Napoli are getting closer to being his new employers – then there is all the reasons for thinking that outside of domestic success, he could crown everything with this recall from England.

It’s time to remove it

However, for this to be even a thought in the mind of Tuchel, Grenish will have to return to the type of form he showed in 2022/23, otherwise he can forget it.

At 29, the player undoubtedly still has a few seasons at the highest level of the game if he is able to lower his head and work.

If he is content to see the rest of his career in relative darkness because he no longer has the motivation, it would be the saddest of the ends of a reasonably decent career.