Tim Sherwood has opened up on how he recommended that Tottenham sign a teenage Jack Grealish - but the club turned him down.
The former Spurs and Aston Villa manager revealed he first saw Grealish in an Under-18s match while working as Harry Redknapp's assistant at White Hart Lane.
The winger, then 16, impressed Sherwood to the extent that he reported straight back to Redknapp to insist he sign the young prodigy in a swap deal for first-team midfielder Jermaine Jenas.
But Sherwood told talkSPORT he could not persuade his boss to get the deal done.