Jermaine Pennant sends warning to Jack Grealish over Man City star's partying ways

Jack Grealish has been told to curb his wild ways — by a man who knows a thing or two about being a hell-raising Premier League star.

Jermaine Pennant carved out a party-boy reputation during his days with Arsenal and Liverpool, one which seriously hampered his career. And he reckons Grealish and Manchester City team-mate Phil Foden could learn from his experiences.

Pennant said: “We see all the foreign superstars pictured on their holidays in fabulous villas, with their wives, in fancy restaurants, and with their personal trainers to make sure they are super-fit even in their times off. But don’t kid yourself, when the cameras are not on them, they are letting their hair down in their down time, in the privy of their own homes, with no photographers watching, no paparazzi snapping any indiscretions.

“When you are in the public eye you have to be clever.

“Of course, Jack and Phil think they are young lads, still in their early-20s, entitled to a night out in their summer break after a gruelling season of 10 to 11 months with City winning the title, they feel they are entitled to a blow-out.

“But they need to think about it, show a bit more class, be more aware what the public reaction is going to be, what the headlines in the press are going to do to their reputations, and reputation is so important.

“Reputation goes with you, so if during the season when it matters, and on their day off they are out after midnight, there will be the assumption they are off their heads on booze when they might only have been drinking mineral water.

“What they do in their time off, whilst you can’t condone some of the things, it isn’t wrong for them to let off steam, but what they do during the season is vital if they want to be in