Jordan blasts ‘moron’ Grealish and Man City team-mate Foden

Joe Williams
Man City duo Phil Foden and Jack Grealish

Former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan has hit out at Manchester City duo Jack Grealish and Phil Foden for their off-field issues.

After City’s 7-0 victory over Leeds earlier this month the pair went on a night out, meaning Pep Guardiola took the decision to leave them out of the team to face Newcastle United at the weekend.

Speaking of their exclusion, Guardiola told BBC Radio Five Live: “Not rotation, no. I decided for this team because they deserved to play today, these guys and not the other ones.


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“At Christmas time I pay a lot of attention to behaviour on and off the pitch. And when off the pitch is not proper they are not going to play.

“So we have to be focussed all the time because of distractions at Christmas time and everything that happens – you have to still be focussed.”

And Jordan thinks Grealish needs to get his off-field behaviour under control after his latest disciplinary breach.

“They’ve had their cards marked now,” Jordan told talkSPORT. “Foden was away on International duty, he got royally castigated for that.

“We have seen that behaviour in the international camp. He has had his card marked at club level.

“Grealish is a moron. He’s a moron. I don’t care if he’s a good lad or not, if you repeat the same circumstances and put yourself in the way of it. You give yourself an opportunity to rebuild the reputation he had. He earned the reputation of being a bit of a Herbert back in the day and he got rid of that reputation.

“People saw him laying around drunk on benches in the summer, which he is entitled to do. Not what you want to see from professional sports men and not what you see from Olympic sprinters and tennis players, lounging around drunk as a skunk in Tenerife, but that’s what footballers do sometimes.

“Jack Grealish shed that image and then bang… he’s being judged by his football. Next thing he is standing on the side of the road, half-cut, in a pair of slippers.

“The next thing we see when he’s just establishing himself, and he isn’t playing well for Man City, and he is in the eye of a storm for turning up at training not in a condition befitting.

“That, by my definition, is a moron.”