Tim Sherwood reveals he advised Harry Redknapp to sign a 16-12 months-aged Jack Grealish for Tottenham in a swap deal for Jermaine Jenas… but the former Spurs boss stated no to £100m Guy Town winger
Tim Sherwood has opened up on how Tottenham practically signed Jack Grealish Sherwood suggested Spurs manager Harry Redknapp indicator the then-teenager starRedknapp declined a swap for Jermaine Jenas Grealish is now a £100m player
Tim Sherwood has opened up on how he advised that Tottenham signal a teenage Jack Grealish – but the club turned him down.
The previous Spurs and Aston Villa manager exposed he very first observed Grealish in an Less than-18s match though performing as Harry Redknapp’s assistant at White Hart Lane.
The winger, then 16, amazed Sherwood to the extent that he reported straight back to Redknapp to insist he indication the younger prodigy in a swap deal for first-workforce midfielder Jermaine Jenas.
But Sherwood informed talkSPORT he could not persuade his boss to get the offer done.
He said: ‘I bear in mind heading back to the 1st-group match at White Hart Lane and Redknapp stated, “Properly what was the rating?” and I mentioned, “I never know H, all I was doing was looking at this boy Grealish”, it was amazing.
Tim Sherwood, 54, has discovered how he almost signed a teenage Jack Grealish for Tottenham
Sherwood advised his boss, then-Spurs manager Harry Redknapp, to convey Grealish in from Aston Villa in a swap deal for initially-team midfielder Jermaine Jenas (pictured)
But the former Villa and Spurs supervisor reported Redknapp (pictured) turned down his request
Winger Grealish, now 27, joined champions Manchester City for £100million in summer 2021
I reported, “[Villa] want to just take Jermaine Jenas, we should do a swap for this boy.” Harry, really rightly, mentioned, “He’s only 16, by the time he’s in the first-workforce I’ll be absent”.
‘As a soccer supervisor he is completely right, on the lookout immediately after by yourself as you would do.
‘But for the club it would’ve been a good move. It would’ve been a excellent shift for Jermaine as he finished up heading to Villa [on loan] in any case.’
When requested if Villa would have agreed to let Grealish go for Jenas, Sherwood additional: ‘Yeah. Absolutely. There was a lot more require for Jermaine in their crew than there was for a youthful Jack Grealish.
‘That’s when you can nick gamers, when someone’s determined, if you want a swap now. For the here and now they would’ve taken Jermaine Jenas to test and stay in the league as they have been striving to survive for several, numerous yrs.’
Sherwood, 54, grew to become Villa boss in 2015 and went on to give Grealish, now 27, his total Leading League debut.
Even though nevertheless at Villa, Tottenham arrived in for Grealish and it seemed so selected a deal would be carried out, the gifted attacker blew goodbye kisses to fans – just before the deal finally fell by way of.
He later joined Premier League champions Manchester City for £100million in summer months 2021, the seventh-most high-priced transfer of all time.