Jack Grealish can be Manchester City game-breaker but first he must adapt | Jonathan Wilson

British record signing is imaginatively explosive but Guardiola will demand more one-touch passing and defensive work

Last November, after Belgium had beaten England 2-0 in the Nations League, Pep Guardiola messaged Kevin De Bruyne to ask what he had made of Jack Grealish. De Bruyne was effusive: Grealish, he said, was a player Manchester City had to sign. Back then Manchester United had seemed the most likely buyers but nine months on it is City who have landed him, for a fee of £100m.

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