England international Jack Grealish is likely to be on the move in the summer
The Manchester City winger, who is currently on loan at fellow Premier League side Everton, recently extended his role as principal ambassador of Special Olympics Great Britain - an organisation that provides sports training and competition for children and adults with an intellectual disability.
Special Olympics GB supports more than 6,500 athletes, including those who compete at the Summer and Winter World Games.
Jack Grealish is expected to leave Manchester City this summer after a five-year association with Pep Guardiola's side.placeholder image
Jack Grealish is expected to leave Manchester City this summer after a five-year association with Pep Guardiola's side. | Getty Images
This week, to celebrate his commitment, he invited a number of Special Olympics athletes who completed the London Marathon to meet him at Everton’s ground, Hill Dickinson Stadium.
One of those was a Sheffield Wednesday fan named Niall, who asked the three-time Premier League winner what it would take to get him to join the Hillsborough-based outfit.
Grealish responded via BBC Sport: “Sheffield Wednesday, one of my, well, good friends actually played for them for a while, called Barry Bannan. He’s a legend there, isn’t he?”
He then joked: “No we’ll wait and see. See what happens next year, I could be at Sheffield Wednesday.”
Grealish came through the Aston Villa academy, joining the club in 2002 as a seven-year-old before progressing into the first team in 2013. During this period, he briefly crossed paths with Bannan, who came through the same youth system five years earlier - making his professional debut in 2008 before joining Crystal Palace in the same campaign that Grealish made his professional debut.
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Bannan and Grealish never actually played in the first team at the same time for Villa, but did train together on several occasions at Bodymoor Heath and have always remained close friends throughout their careers.
Grealish, who is currently recovering from a season-ending foot injury that he sustained in January, has been an ambassador for Special Olympics GB since 2023 and has extended will remain in the role for a further three years taking him until 2029.
"My little sister has cerebral palsy - it's something that's close to me, it's something that I've always wanted to be involved in," Grealish explained.
"I go through life trying to make people happy... all I want to do is to help them as much as I can."
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