Jack Grealish, a Manchester City player, and Bukayo Saka, an Arsenal player, reconnected this week at the England training camp, and the latter has revealed a humorous dispute they had.
The two Three Lions players are competing against one another for the Premier League championship this year. Now, Pep Guardiola's team is eight points behind Arsenal at the top of the standings. But City still have a game to play.
When Arsenal lost to City earlier this year, Grealish won the competition, but the players are still talking about something that occurred in that game.
Unfortunately for Arsenal, they have already lost to Manchester City twice this season—once in the FA Cup and once at home in the Premier League—by scores of 1-0 and 3-1, respectively.
Saka and Grealish worked hard to win the ball in the league game. The Manchester City player was in control, but Saka surged in and punched his teammate to the ground with his shoulder. Grealish naturally turned around, asked the referee for a foul, and got one. Saka was indignant over the choice since she couldn't believe it.
The decision between the two England attackers has not yet been reached. Yet the Manchester City player appreciates the whistle from the referee.
He said to The Times:“I’m playing for City on the wing, he’s playing for Arsenal on the wing and we’re both going for the Premier League. He’s a great lad, Bukayo."
While Saka and Grealish will continue to argue, it's more crucial that the two players work well together when they don the England jersey for tonight's match against Italy.
The 21-year-old Arsenal player has had an incredible season. One of the main reasons the Gunners are where they are in the rankings is because he is the only player in the Premier League to have scored 10 goals and provided 10 assists so far this season.
Grealish has also performed well following a challenging rookie season. He has been playing pretty well this year, and he will be aiming to carry it over to England.
Next month, Arsenal and Manchester City square off once again. Saka will undoubtedly want to be the one to claim victory this time.
He added: “In the game the other week, I went past someone and then me and him went shoulder to shoulder.
“I thought, ‘he [the referee] has got to give it as a foul’, because I can’t have Bukayo saying that he bodied me. I pulled him up on that this morning and he said it was never a foul!”
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