Newcastle stance on Jack Grealish revealed as Manchester City come to terms with forward’s future | OneFootball

Newcastle are set to keep monitoring Jack Grealish’s future at the Etihad Stadium in the coming months but do not consider the England international a serious target for the summer, as per a new report.

Grealish is expected to find a new club for the new campaign after making just seven Premier League starts last season, struggling with injuries and thereby minutes, meaning Pep Guardiola has lost the trust he once had in his record signing.

Since joining Manchester City for a then British-record £100 million fee from boyhood club Aston Villa, Grealish has won three Premier League titles, the UEFA Champions League and proved instrumental in City’s historic run to a sensational treble in the 2022-23 season.

However, after two frustrating seasons since the treble wherein the forward has played so little football, there is a wider acceptance that this is the time for the 29-year-old to move on to revitalise his club and international careers.

Thomas Tuchel has overlooked Grealish in his first two squads as manager of the England National Team, citing the winger’s serious lack of minutes in recent seasons as to why his hands are tied in selecting Grealish to represent the Three Lions.

Grealish is fully aware that he needs to be playing regularly to stake a claim in the England squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and is understood to prefer a permanent exit from Manchester City in the summer.

However, it remains to be seen whether a move eventually materialises as a permanent transfer or a loan deal, with Manchester City believed to be open to both opportunities as they look to help Grealish in finding a new club, with the Englishman held with great respect and admiration in the dressing room.

Everton, Aston Villa and Tottenham are amongst the Premier League clubs so far linked with an interest in Grealish, with Manchester United and Liverpool distancing themselves from a potential swoop for the Birmingham-born attacker.

The Northern Echo are reporting that whilst Newcastle will look to track Grealish’s pursuit of an exit in the coming months as the transfer window unfolds, the Manchester City forward is not a priority target in Tyneside as things stand.

Newcastle have enjoyed a breakthrough few years under Eddie Howe and have secured a spot in next season’s UEFA Champions League, which has handed the north-east club an additional set of financial muscles to flex in the transfer market.

However, Grealish would be an expensive outlay for any club regardless of whether a deal is permanent or on loan and there are only a handful clubs across Europe that can match the forward’s current £300,000-a-week wages at the Etihad Stadium.

Grealish will know he has to take a significant pay cut to stay in the Premier League if he wants to play in the UEFA Champions League, with Manchester City also understood to be happy to sell the attacker for a cut-price figure of £40 million this summer.