{"id":1679,"date":"2026-06-05T20:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2026-06-05T20:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:29:36","slug":"why-jack-grealish-having-a-pint-is-quite-refreshing-as-everton-legend-airs-transfer-hope-suggests-positional-switch-for-man-city-outcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Why Jack Grealish \u2018having a pint\u2019 is \u2018quite refreshing\u2019 as Everton legend airs transfer hope &#038; suggests positional switch for Man City outcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"C\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Quizzed on whether he would <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/jack-grealish-asleep-england-boozy-afternoon-session\/blt2f960bb26c8fd919\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><span>like to have Grealish back<\/span><\/a><span>as City hand out clean slates under Guardiola\u2019s proposed successor Enzo Maresca, Reid &#8211; speaking courtesy of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.budds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><span>BUDDS<\/span><\/a><span>the UK&#8217;s leading specialist auctioneers of sports memorabilia &#8211; told <\/span><b><strong>GOAL<\/strong><\/b><span>: \u201cI think he&#8217;s top drawer. I love his personality. I know he gets called out for having a pint every now and then. I find that quite refreshing, if I&#8217;m honest, because I&#8217;m from that era.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI just think he brings something personality-wise. Most important thing, I think he brings something on the park as well. He can handle a football. In the modern day, they call it number 10. I think he&#8217;d be alright in there. I&#8217;d like to try him in there, but if you&#8217;re asking me about Grealish, I&#8217;m a big fan. Big fan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While floating the idea of a positional switch for Grealish, who has tended to operate off the left flank of late, Reid admits that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/jack-grealish-cost-50m-transfer-fee-claim-everton-wrexham-mls-man-city-winger\/blt72e4e2bee29ff89d\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><span>City\u2019s \u00a350 million ($67m) asking price<\/span><\/a><span>  &#8211; the terms set in his loan agreement &#8211; is too high for a player that will turn 31 in September. He added: \u201cOf course. I think when we&#8217;re going on about a change at Man City, if he&#8217;s not in the plans, I think there&#8217;s a deal to be done. I, certainly from an Everton perspective, would like it to be done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quizzed on whether he would like to have Grealish backas City hand out clean slates under Guardiola\u2019s proposed successor Enzo&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}