Club make contact over deal for Jack Grealish as part of a stunning two-player Premier League raid - SPORTbible

Jack Grealish is successful limbo successful his Manchester City career, having been encouraged by Pep Guardiola to look astatine different clubs astatine the extremity of past season.

Grealish struggled for minutes successful the Premier League past season, battling recurring wounded problems and watching astir of the run from the bench. On the last time of the Premier League play astatine Fulham, Guardiola near Grealish retired of his City squad and past admitted that the England planetary could permission the Etihad arsenic helium needs to play regularly.

The winger was past near astatine location arsenic City flew to the USA for the FIFA Club World Cup, and does not look to beryllium successful Guardiola's first-choice plans for the coming campaign. City signed attacking midfielder Rayan Cherki successful June to summation contention successful the guardant positions arsenic Guardiola looks to amended connected their disappointing run past term.

Pep Guardiola told Jack Grealish helium tin look for a caller club. (Image: Getty)

One large alteration astatine City this summertime came arsenic the nine decided not to renew Kevin De Bruyne's contract, with the Belgian choosing Serie A champions Napoli arsenic his caller club. Napoli recovered occurrence successful signing unwanted Premier League players past play with Scott McTominay and Billy Gilmour playing important roles successful their rubric win.

And they could adhd Grealish to that increasing database arsenic Gazzetta dello Sport suggesting Napoli person contacted Grealish's campy up of a imaginable approach. They adhd that Grealish's wage could beryllium prohibitive to a woody but could beryllium unfastened to a indebtedness if City screen immoderate of his wages.

Reports successful Italy accidental Grealish could travel De Bruyne to Napoli. (Image: Getty)

The study besides names Liverpool guardant Federico Chiesa arsenic a imaginable transportation people aft his dilatory archetypal play connected Merseyside. Chiesa has been near astatine location from Liverpool's pre-season circuit implicit a insignificant wounded issue, but Gazzetta accidental this is simply a 'strong signal' that helium is not successful Arne Slot's plans and Chiesa has been prompted to look for a instrumentality to his autochthonal Italy. They study that Napoli is an option, and the Azzurri are considering making a determination with abstraction for him successful their squad.

Chiesa wants to triumph his spot backmost successful the Italy nationalist squad up of the 2026 World Cup, though they look a situation to suffice arsenic they presently beryllium 3rd successful their qualifying radical down Norway and Israel, albeit lone playing 2 games truthful far.