Manchester City star Jack Grealish has hit out at the former footballers who are now pundits.
The England international has received his fair share of criticism over the years for Aston Villa and now with the Citizens.
However, Grealish looks to have found his feet under Pep Guardiola is playing an instrumental role in their treble push this season.
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When asked about the criticism, Grelash told the Daily Mail, "Oh don't.
"The way some of the TV pundits talk I can't actually catch my breath sometimes. It's as if they never played bad themselves.
"Graeme was an unbelievable player. But he used to say I held on to the ball too long. I was like, 'Mate, I play for Aston Villa'. A lot of the time we didn't have the ball so when we did the manager told me to keep it.
"It's the same here. Everyone sees Pep as a tiki-taka manager but before the Bayern game away in the Champions League he said, 'You know what having balls is? It's about being the one to keep the ball, to calm the game down'."
"So you do that and you get criticised. It's tricky. When I was at Villa nobody had paid any money for me so it didn't matter if I played bad. Also, 90 per cent of the games were not live on TV so people wouldn't notice anyway.
"It is different now but I will be honest here — if I have played well I go back home and watch everything and listen to the commentary and what they say afterwards.
"If I play s***, I will not listen to a word they say."
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