'Clown' - Man City star Jack Grealish slams former Aston Villa manager after bizarre substitution claim

Jack Grealish has accused former Aston Villa manager John Gregory of lying about getting him substituted off while on loan at Notts County.

Grealish joined Villa as a six-year-old and worked his way through the age groups before getting his first taste of regular senior football at the League One side. He played 39 times for the Magpies, scoring five goals and showing plenty of promise as an 18-year-old.

But in one particular game against Crawley Town, who Gregory was managing at the time, he was taken off. And in a recent interview, he bizarrely claimed it was due to his mind games.

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"I actually got Jack Grealish taken off once," he told Undr the Cosh. "He was on loan at Notts County from Villa so this would be about 2014. He must have been about 18 or 19 at the time.

"I'm in the dugout and whenever he came near me, I said, 'F***ing Jack Grealish. Aston Villa. F***ing rubbish. No wonder they've f***ing sent you out to Notts County.' I'm right in his ear, 'No wonder they don't f***ing want you up there'. Getting into him.

"They take him off and he went home and told his dad and his dad spoke to one of my friends. He said, 'Hey, what about your mate Gregory having a pop at my Jack?'. So my mate said, 'Took him off though, didn't they?'."

Grealish, evidently irked by the claim, replied to the story on the podcast's Instagram page, writing: "John Gregory - Episode 1 of things that never happened... What a clown."

Whoever came out on top that day, Grealish has seemingly come out the better from his loan spell at Notts County. The tricky winger was a regular star for