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Jack Grealish ‘deletes’ tweets backing Man Utd hours after £100m Man City bid

News is hot on the grapevine that Jack Grealish could be joining Manchester City any day now following a reported £100m bid, but the England star may be red-faced after having been found to have declared, and subsequently deleted, his earlier years unabashed support for City’s bitter rivals, Manchester United, in historic tweets.

Jack Grealish appears to have deleted historic tweets declaring support for the Red Devils after news broke of a reported £100m bid from the Etihad club. But despite his vocal support for the Red Devils back then, it has left City fans excited that the Aston Villa man, 25, may really be on his way to the Etihad.

One tweet that Grealish, then 16, wrote read: “Football is on! Please United win and City lose, I cannot watch City win the league lol, come on the Villa as well!!”

Another read: “On route to training, finally I’m back training n the suns shining, absolutely BUZZING for the game tonight, come on u reds #United’.”

The tweets could likely have left Grealish a tad red-faced as they appeared to be deleted around the time that news broke of a British record bid following the report that Villa and City had opened talks over the potential move on Tuesday and Wednesday.

A fee thought to be around £100m has been reported, but it’s unclear if Villa would accept this or City would spend it.

Earlier on Friday, ex-Tottenham and Aston Villa star Jermaine Jenas told Daily Star Sport how Grealish should perhaps reconsider joining the league winners.

Jenas said: “From Jack’s point of view, it all depends on what Guardiola’s plans are for Phil Foden, because Phil spent the whole of last year on that left-hand side for Manchester City, and was brilliant, and that’s where Jack plays.

“There have been plenty of times where left-sided players at City have gone missing. Leroy Sane had to get himself out of there, Sterling last year even as brilliant as he was, didn’t get a game last year.

“I find it hard to say he shouldn’t go, for Jack, I just don’t know if Man City is the place for him.

“It’s a weird one, I feel like if he goes there and all of a sudden you’ve got Grealish, you put Foden a bit more central, you might get Kane or Lewandowski or Haaland, you’re going to have a phenomenal team.”

He added: “But how long is Pep going to be there? There are so many different elements with Man City, where I say is that the place for Jack?

“It’s a really hard situation to turn down Man City. From a positional point of view, Pep might be looking at it and saying, Jack’s going to go on the left, I’m now going to bring Foden into that David Silva role, I’ve got Rodri at the base of it, Kevin De Bruyne on the right again, and then you look at that and say, I need to be part of that, that sounds good.

“But the more we’ve been talking about it, I don’t think he can turn it down personally, it’s too good a move, too good a football club and too good a manager and he’d probably regret it for life.”