Jack Grealish's future plunged into fresh doubt after Pep Guardiola's Man City decision

Jack Grealish’s long-term future at is looking increasingly uncertain after he failed to make the squad for their final game of the season. has endured a poor season at City and has struggled to convince he is deserving of game time of late.

The 29-year-old winger has started just seven league games this season, with just one of those coming in 2025. He has contributed three goals and five assists in 32 appearances across all competitions, but has become increasingly marginalised, with Guardiola preferring to play Savinho, Jeremy Doku, or Omar Marmoush on the left wing.

Grealish was an unused substitute in in the final and in the summer transfer window. That possibility has become more likely with reporting that he’s been left out of the squad to face on Sunday.

The England international will hold talks with directors of football Txiki Begiristain and Hugo Viana after the season concludes. And although he has two years left on his contract, a transfer appears a distinct possibility with the current situation deemed untenable.

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Guardiola’s stance on the £100million player was made extremely clear when he brought on 19-year-old Claudio Echeverri instead of Grealish at Wembley. “We didn’t talk, I didn’t talk with him,” the City boss explained afterwards.

“I’m saying these things, and people don’t believe me, but it belongs to the agents and the club and Txiki, in this case, and Hugo as well. Both will decide. What is going to happen will happen, but we are going to start to play again, but of course he has to come back to play minutes to start to play again.”

Grealish’s fate this summer could well be linked with Guardiola’s stated desire to work with a smaller squad next season. Abdukodir Khusanov, Savinho, James McAtee, Echeverri and Rico Lewis all missed out on a place in the 20-man matchday squad for the recent 3-1 win over , prompting a plea from the City boss.

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He said: “I said to the club I don't want that [a bigger squad]. I don't want to leave five or six players in the freezer. I don't want that. I will quit. Make a shorter squad, I will stay. It's impossible for my soul to [tell] my players in the tribune [stands] that they cannot play.”

He added: “Maybe [for] three, four months we couldn't select 11 players, we didn't have defenders, it was so difficult. After, people came back, but next season it cannot be like that.

“As a manager I cannot train 24 players and every time I select I have to have four, five, six stay in Manchester at home because they cannot play. This is not going to happen. I said to the club I don't want that.”

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