Jack Grealish certainly thinks he’s a £100million player. ‘Yeah. Maybe,’ he said last September when asked if he always believed the monumental release clause Aston Villa put into his contract would be met.
Others are less certain. The former Liverpool player Dirk Kuyt thinks the price tag is three times Grealish’s actual value. Celebrity Manchester City fan Liam Gallagher thinks that price puts Phil Foden’s worth at £500million.
The evidence of the Bernabeu suggests that they were right. It is unimaginable that Mo Salah, Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry, Michael Owen or any other forward in the same bracket as Grealish would have failed to take one of his two golden chances to put Real Madrid out of sight.