Jack Grealish sends Instagram message to Leeds star Kalvin Phillips
Leeds United star Kalvin Phillips has become a mainstay in the England set-up over the past 18 months.
The Yorkshire Pirlo is rubbing his shoulders with the countries’ best nearly every single month, and relationships are starting to form.
Jack Grealish is one of those, and the Manchester City playmaker even admitted asking Phillips to calm the Leeds fans down with their perception of him.
That continued on Friday over on Instagram.
Phillips started the exchange with a happy birthday message for his international teammate, posting it alongside a not-so-flattering photo.
Grealish responded with a one-word message, joking and firing back at the midfielder this evening.
“Fool,” he wrote.
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Whether they will like it or not, this is something that many may disagree with, even though it is harmless fun.
Having said that, now that Grealish has left Aston Villa, that so-called hatred could have slowly disappeared in the past couple of months.
Phillips is among the best in the country, we have known that for many years know since Marcelo Bielsa arrived, but so does everyone else.
We have seen the respect the rest of the England squad has for him, with Declan Rice handing him the Player of the Year and claiming he fully deserves it.
It is good to see one of our own rubbing shoulders with the best, no matter what you think of it, he fully deserves that step in his career as he pushes to get the Whites back to the top.
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