Jack Grealish was paid the ultimate compliment by Pep Guardiola when he was assigned the no.10 shirt for Manchester City at a time when Lionel Messi or Harry Kane might have taken it instead.
Rewind to summer 2021. Grealish fever had swept across the nation as his swashbuckling displays, mainly from the bench, almost inspired England to Euro 2020 glory.
It was enough to convince Guardiola, meanwhile, that he was the right man to push City forward. It cost them a pretty penny in what remains a British record £100million.
