‘I gave Jack Grealish his debut – he’d attempt to push the mistaken buttons with me’
Jack Grealish, today, is a vital cog within the Manchester City machine – however when Paul Lambert knew him, he was only a child.
Grealish rose by way of the ranks of Aston Villa as a teen, and he would go on to make his proffesional debut carrying claret and blue. Lambert was the person within the dugout when Grealish first graced the Premier League – however their relationship wasn’t all the time excellent.
“I gave Jack [Grealish] his debut, at Villa. I think he would’ve been 16 at the time, and the kids had got to the final of the NextGen Series against Chelsea, and I went over to Italy to watch it. And the two players who stood out to me were Jack and Callum Robinson,” Lambert recalled to Ladbrokes Fanzone.
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“Jack always had a side to him in his locker which we all know about. He would sometimes try and push the wrong kind of buttons with me, but I’d seen it all before, so I knew the pitfalls.
“You’re swimming with sharks at occasions, as a soccer supervisor, and I did not need him to go off the rails, as a result of I might see an enormous expertise there. One week I needed to pull him into the workplace for a misdemeanour, which was superb ultimately.
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“He was only a baby really, in footballing terms, at the time. You’ve got to remember that as a manager; it’s about how you nurture talents like that.”
Grealish turned a £100million man when he swapped his boyhood aspect for Manchester City in 2021. And the Englishman has since gone on to win the Premier League, twice, in addition to the Champions League.
