Manchester City's Jack Grealish during the recent Champions League, league stage match at the Allianz Stadium, Turin, Italy
Manchester City's Jack Grealish during the recent Champions League, league stage match at the Allianz Stadium, Turin, Italy
James Ducker
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Nine months before returning to Manchester City as Pep Guardiola’s assistant, Juanma Lillo wrote a personal lament about how modern football’s increasing obsession with methodology had robbed the sport of its mavericks.
It is doubtful Jack Grealish has ever been alerted to Lillo’s musings but it is also hard to believe that much of what the Spaniard said would not chime with a player who has been rendered increasingly impotent in Guardiola’s tactical straitjacket.