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Jack Grealish’s Boots

Dean Ariola

Jack Grealish fearlessly takes the game to his defenders with his dribbling skills. The star midfielder is usually the source of creativity for his team and, as such, has been on the receiving end of stiff challenges more often than not. Grealish is one of the in-demand stars and more than impressed for England at recent times. A collection of Grealish boots nowadays comprise of the Puma Future.

He is a stand out player on the pitch, for his style of play and is well regarded off it too, including giving away his boots to a fan after England’s Euro 2020 disappointment at Wembley. Another class act was his goal celebration against Iran in tribute to a boy named Finlay who has cerebral palsy.

Future 9 Unleashed

Ever loyal to the Puma Future, Grealish smoothly transitioned to the latest 9th generation beginning with orange-red colourway of the Unleashed pack. The swirling aesthetics, highlighted in parts with grey accents, kind of represented the idea of being at the centre of everything. Indeed, with Grealish being the gravity that attracted pressure, he relished getting the ball and all the defensive attention that came with it. And the like the silverish Puma cat and Future brandings rising above the intense colourway, Grealish was able to rise above the heat either by using his own agile footwork and dribbling or passing into the space for his teammates.

ModelQualityPitches
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Unleashed

FUZIONFIT upper with 3D Grip zones, FUZIONPODS, Grip Control Pro and PWRTAPE

FLEXGILITY soleplate
FG AG SGLearn more about the Future here

Future 8 Hot Pursuit

With him back to Everton on loan for the 2025/26 season, Grealish had shown why he was one of the highly rated stars in England. He took advantage of the freedom given to him to express his maverick style, which bode well for his performances. That meant that at least for the beginning of the campaign, he was able to give justice to the Future 8 Hot Pursuit, whose scorching colourway also matched his pursuit of redeeming his star status.

Future 8

Apperances had been a bit far in-between for Grealish to begin 2025. But at least he did showcase the teaser for the Future 8, which reengineered the Fuzionfit upper to now include an inner LYCRA layer with Fuzionpods. FLEXGILITY offered an aggressive stud configuration with a noticeable concentration of blades near the toe for planting purposes.

Lights Out Future 7

As the 2024/25 Champions League season began, Grealish headlined the switch of Future players to the Lights Out Pack. It was noticeably navy up top and pastel green along the sides and the forefoot. But a close-up indicated a more nuanced look, with the accent colour actually involved in the abstract polygonal trims that were sometimes solid and other times striped in design. Mixed within the said design were pastel purple secondary accents.

Future 7 Formula

As his creativity enabled him to go with the flow of the game, it was fitting that Grealish was one of the lead star for the Future 7 of the Formula Pack. With Neymar still out due to injury by the time of this boot’s rollout, Grealish provided both the name and the skills to back the silo during the first few months of the 2024/25 season. It had that oceanic water vibe courtesy of the aqua at the bottom and the familiar blue shade at the top.

Puma secures another high-profile name in Jack Grealish, who now officially signs with the Wild Cat brand and is now a headliner for the Future Ultimate. His first Puma Future boot is the ‘Blue Shimmer’ Future Ultimate from the Supercharge pack. With Grealish in the fold, the Future has another well-established footballer to represent it besides Neymar.

What did Grealish Wore Before?

Disruption Phantom GX

Grealish and his co-GT stars all transitioned to the Phantom GX ahead of the Qatar World Cup quarterfinals, a bold timing for a new-gen boot release in relation to a major tournament. And as seen on his GT preference, the attacker opted for the low-cut GX, which did not have the Ghost Lacing system. With a probing player like Grealish, the boot had its snappy soleplate and versatile stud configuration put into good use. The knit upper made it a distinct option considering the Mercs were synthetic and the Tiempo leather.

2022 World Cup Phantom GT

Grealish did what he does best on the pitches of Qatar wearing the black with copper Phantom GT from the Nike Generation Pack. He was joined by some of the England stars in wearing Nike boots for the tournament, namely Harry Kane and Phil Foden. Seemingly encouraged to be fluid on the front, Grealish and fellow GT players gave credence to the boot’s connection to the creator role-giving as much as receiving opportunities to put the ball at the back of the net.

Grealish has always been a Nike Phantom player. He wore the Hypervenoms and, in Villa’s 2019 Premier League promotion, got famous for wearing a battered white Hypervenom IIIs, which he explained he feels were his luck boots. Before the GTs, the player preferred the VNM when the Phantoms were still dual-siloed.

Aside from the habit of sticking with his boots for as long as possible similar to Toni Kroos, wearing child-size shin pads and folding his socks low are the other practices of his that got attention. His preference for small size shin pads is all about maintaining optimal ball touch and control, while the rolling down of socks is due to having a successful season in his mid-teen years when he noticed his socks were shrinking. He thought of low socks as something lucky for him and has carried on with the practice ever since.

Because of his Irish descent, Grealish represented the Republic of Ireland in his under-21 years. He decided to represent England in international football in 2015, subsequently debuting for the senior squad against Denmark in 2020. During the Euro 2020 tournament, Grealish played mainly as an impact substitute, with the match against Germany one of his statement games where he assisted both goals for a 2-0 win.

Author

Dean Ariola

Dean Ariola has been the Chief Writer at FootballBoots.co.uk since 2020. He leads coverage of new boot releases, maintains the Boot Secrets guide, and is the co-author of 24/25 Boot Secrets: How To Choose Your Football Boots, helping players understand what boots actually feel like on the pitch.