Ollie Watkins has revealed that one Manchester City player is completely unpredictable behind the scenes.
The Aston Villa striker, after scoring 19 goals in 37 Premier League appearances last season, has found himself in the England squad for the current European Championship in Germany.
With one game played, the Three Lions managed to beat Serbia with a 1-0 scoreline, although Watkins didn’t make an appearance.
Now though, ahead of England’s second group game against Denmark on Thursday, the centre-forward has shared some behind-the-scenes insight into one particular figure from the City squad he knows from the international circuit.
Ollie Watkins says Jack Grealish is England’s main joker
Opening up in a recent Q&A video shared on the England national team’s YouTube channel, Watkins said this when asked who the biggest joker or prankster is in the Three Lions camp.
He said: “Obviously, Jack’s not here, but Jack is. Whenever he walks into the room you think what’s he going to do?”
Grealish’s personality wasn’t enough to earn him a place in the England squad
For Villa and England, Watkins and Grealish have appeared in 33 games together, racking up six joint goal participations along the way.
Therefore, it’s clear that the striker certainly knows what it’s like to share a dressing room with the City star.
After Grealish was included in Gareth Southgate’s initial 33-man squad for the current tournament, the 28-year-old was one of the seven players to be cut from the final squad that travelled to Germany.
This isn’t the first time a member of the England squad has shared how amusing the City winger is, as Jordan Pickford said earlier this month that Grealish is hilarious without necessarily being intentionally hilarious.
Now that Watkins has highlighted how much of a joker his former Villa teammate is, we feel that it’s a shame the England players don’t have a personality like Grealish with them in Germany for the Euros.