Former Aston Villa striker Dwight Yorke has warned Jack Grealish that he risks ruining his career due to negative media headlines.

The 19-year-old was pictured taking laughing gas in April, before another controversial image of the youngster apparently lying on the floor drunk in Tenerife emerged last week.

"Your reputation gets tainted a little bit with big clubs maybe thinking, 'he's a great talent', which he is, 'but I'm not sure about him'," The Mirror quotes Yorke as saying.

"If I was his agent or his manager, Tim Sherwood, I'd be saying 'Listen, what do you think you're playing at? You do that again and you'll be having a very, very long season'."

Grealish emerged as a key player for Villa under Sherwood last season and he started for the club in their FA Cup final defeat to Arsenal.

Written by
Alex Meyers