Aston Villa’s Grealish likes tweet questioning his exclusion from Gareth Southgate’s England squad

Aston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish liked a tweet that questioned why he was not called up for the England squad.

Grealish, who has since unliked the tweet, was on the fringes of making it into Gareth Southgate‘s England squad for the upcoming matches Iceland and Denmark in the Nations League.

However, the 24-year-old was not called up as Leeds midfielder Kalvin Phillips earned his first Three Lions nod after helping his side win the Championship.

Jack Grealish liked a tweet that questioned why he was not called up for the England squad

Grealish liked a tweet comparing his season’s stats to Kalvin Phillips, before quickly unliking it

The tweet from SkyBet said: ‘Last year Southgate said that Jack Grealish must gain more Premier League experience to earn a call-up’

It then detailed Grealish’s stats in the last Premier League season, where he got eight goals, six assists and won nine man of the match awards.

They then compared Grealish’s Premier League accomplishments with Kalvin Phillips, who is yet to feature in a topflight match in his career. 

Some fans took to Twitter as opinion appeared to be divided among the Three Lions fanbase.

One supporter believed Grealish’s exclusion from the squad was down to his antics earlier in the UK’s lockdown enforced by coronavirus. 

Leeds midfielder Kalvin Phillips is yet to play in the topflight after winning the Championship

Grealish had attended a party at a friend’s house earlier in the year and crashed his car and was charged with two driving offences, as the fan explained Southgate is looking to call-up role models, of which Grealish apparently does not fit. 

Another fan believed the attacker being left out the squad has nothing to do with Kalvin Phillips being called up over him, but insinuated that Southgate has an issue with Grealish.

He wrote: ‘It’s not even about Philipps as he is a good player. It’s about the clear issue that Southgate has with Grealish.’