Man City star Jack Grealish hits back at criticism of parties in Ibiza and Las Vegas

Jack Grealish believes he is unfairly targeted when he parties during the off-season, after the Manchester City star was pictured in Ibiza and Las Vegas this summer.

Grealish kicked off pre-season for City in encouraging fashion, as one of the top performers in the friendly against Club America as he regularly danced around the Mexican defence and set up Kevin De Bruyne for the first goal. He will be hoping to capitalise on the departures of Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling, with just Phil Foden to compete with for a left-wing spot this season.

However, his summer saw him draw plenty of attention for celebrating City's title win in Ibiza, and later holidaying in Vegas, both during time he was free to do as he pleased. And Grealish told reporters at NRG Park in Houston that he feels other players who also went away haven't had the same treatment as him.

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"Obviously I'm enjoying myself," he said. "I went to Ibiza after we won the league, and then I went to Vegas after my England trip, and then apart from that, I was away with my girlfriend, working hard and trying to get back training.

"I was getting a lot of stick off the lads for posting too many training photos on my Instagram. I think it's just one of them: when I do something, partying or whatever, it's going to get picked up on more than others. I’ve seen a lot of people in Ibiza and Vegas who didn’t get anywhere near what I got.

"People don’t really want to see you training hard after the season, they want to see all the other stuff – the controversial type of stuff. I’ve just tried to get used to that now. It was difficult earlier on in my career but I’ve had to get used