Jack Grealish advised to ‘knuckle down’ and deal with footy…by Paul Gascoigne
Party-loving Jack Grealish has been warned to ‘knuckle down’ and focus on football – by former king of the caners Paul Gascoigne.
Gazza – who claimed he used to snort 16 lines of cocaine and drink four bottles of whisky-a-day – said the Manchester City midfielder needs to focus on his game.
Grealish, 28, was spotted blazing a trail across Dubai and St Tropez in southern France wearing a blond wig after being left out of ex-Three Lions’ boss Gareth Southgate’s squad for the Euro 24 finals.
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He was seen singing Natasha Bedingfield’s hit Unwritten before leaving a Greek restaurant at 4.45am after City’s Premier League title-winning celebrations in May.
And he told fans he’d had the `best day and night’ and `no sleep’ after hitting the bottle to toast City’s FA Cup, Champions and Premier League treble the season before.
In 2022 a woman told a court Grealish bedded her at one of his former City team mate Benjamin Mendy’s house parties.
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Mendy was cleared of a string of sex charges, Grealish was not charged with any crime but the woman told police he had been ‘demanding vodka’ at the bash.
Gazza, 57, told technology news website Technopedia Grealish needed to focus on football now the new season has started to win his place back in the City and England teams.
“Obviously it’s pre-season,’’ Gascoigne said. “I think he spent 50 grand on a night out in Dubai when he didn’t make the England squad.
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“Good on him. He’s got that money. He’s got quality but he needs to knuckle down. I was the same.
“When I had a few days off I’d go and celebrate. You had a drink and that. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t. I regretted it.
“But I still managed to perform. If you can perform on a Saturday then fair enough, the manager is not going to have a go at you.’’
In 2011 Gazza, who has battled booze addiction, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder, told ITV show Piers Morgan’s Life Stories at his worst he was binging on cocaine and whisky every day.
He told Channel 4 reality show Scared Of Dark he pretended to have nine children as he toured chemist’s buying kids’ medicine Calpol because it “has 1% of alcohol and I thought, ‘well if I buy 10 bottles that’s like having nearly a pint’.”
