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Everton have been strongly linked with Manchester City’s Jack Grealish in recent weeks. The England international is high on the club’s shortlist as a statement signing for the upcoming season at their new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.
However, getting Grealish, even on loan, won’t be a simple task.
Reports emerged earlier this week that the Toffees had made contact with Manchester City to explore a potential deal for Grealish. However, speaking on The Game podcast, journalist Paul Joyce of The Times said that it wasn’t really the case.
“What was surprising about this one was that it was presented as if Everton had contacted Manchester City on Wednesday. That wasn’t the case,” said Joyce.
“There wasn’t contact between the clubs on Wednesday. There had been contact between the clubs previously and Everton know the situation with Grealish. Man City are looking for as much wage recoupment as possible.
Joyce also went on to say that signing Grealish on loan for a season could cost Everton £12m. Grealish, a former holder of the most expensive British transfer record, earns £300,000 per week at City.
“The numbers don’t put them off, but other factors need to be taken into consideration,” Joyce added.
Everton have more pressing concerns before they kick off the new league season with a trip to Elland Road to take on newly-promoted Leeds United. The side still needs wingers and £12m is a substantial sum to be spent on a loan signing.
The Blues recently bought Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall for £29m, including £4m in add-ons, from Chelsea to reinforce their midfield.
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Simon Jones
1 Posted
08/08/2025 at
09:39:45
If we don’t, someone else will.
Trevor Powell
2 Posted
08/08/2025 at
10:15:54
Considering the cash we have wasted over the last few years, £12 mill seems a pittance if he is successful and he helps to promote the club as a place to be playing. He has to prove himself with Tuchel for the world cup squad next year, so if he should be well motivated by that alone!
Get it done and it’s his chance for at least on last WC dance!
Geoff Lambert
3 Posted
08/08/2025 at
10:27:23
So that’s £3 million less than the transfer fee we paid for Maupay. Get it done ASAP will make the clubs profile much higher for other prospective signings.
Colin Glassar
4 Posted
08/08/2025 at
10:29:34
How much did Maupay cost us? Now he cant find a club to take him. Karma?
Derek Knox
5 Posted
08/08/2025 at
11:49:05
Is that a new Night Club that has opened recently ?
Still not totally convinced, approaching 30, probably lost a few yards, why Pep has virtually dropped him like a hot potato, if he was that highly rated by him once, what has happened since ?
Stop quibbling over Dibling and get the kid in !
Anthony Dwyer
6 Posted
08/08/2025 at
12:44:27
Dibling is obviously one Moyes feels can start now for us and he will continue to do so for the whole of a 5 or 6 year deal.
Wouldn’t do anything with Grealish for anymore than £150k pw max, and I’d keep an option open to return to sender at xmas/Jan window if he’s not up to it.
In reference to what Maupay cost imo that’s just crazy, we basically threw money away on him and many others, being stupid in the past does not justify being stupid with our money now.
Colin Glassar
7 Posted
08/08/2025 at
13:20:33
Pep revolutionised football with his Barca and Man City teams but hes become fossilised in recent years and teams have sussed him out. Hes too rigid these days as shown last season.
Grealish might have lost his mojo but I still think for 12m hes worth the risk.
Steve Brown
8 Posted
08/08/2025 at
13:25:05
Come on, that is exciting.
Robert Tressell
9 Posted
08/08/2025 at
13:29:10
If he plays RW, he pushes Ndiaye into the no 10 spot (so far so good) but pushes KDH and Alcaraz to the bench.
If he plays AM, Nidiaye resumes his usual position (again so far so good) but pushes KDH and Alcaraz to the bench.
I get we need squad depth, but this would be an odd way to use about £50m plus of our kitty.
In fact it robs us of depth because it duplicates unnecessarily in positions were already strong in but would leave us light in positions lacking players / cover.
There are plenty of other fun players to get as loans cum vanity signings – other Grealish style leftovers at Rich 6 clubs etc. so maybe more likely we go that direction.
Steve Brown
10 Posted
08/08/2025 at
13:39:10
I dont mind Grealish on loan as he can play LW, No.10 and RW. He gives us options across the front line and allows us to concentrate our remaining budget elsewhere. Even if we signed Dibling, we would probably need another RW signing as back up. Grealish signing makes this unnecessary.
Unfortunately, I dont think a deal for Dibling looks a goer now to be honest.
Robert Tressell
11 Posted
08/08/2025 at
13:45:43
I agree Dibling might not be a goer either though.
Robert Tressell
12 Posted
08/08/2025 at
14:02:48
– Sterling
– Nkunku
– Odobert
– Nwaneri
– Anthony
– Zirkzee
– Richarlison
And these are just forwards from the Premier League. Plenty more besides…
Steve Brown
13 Posted
08/08/2025 at
14:15:03
That will be followed up with a story that the deal has hit difficulties as it is “complex”, then that it has fallen apart as the clubs are far apart in their valuation of the player.
Finally, Sky will be quoting a “bemused” insider saying that the clubs never held talks.
Robert Tressell
14 Posted
08/08/2025 at
15:05:40
Sounds about right Steve.
Colin Glassar
15 Posted
08/08/2025 at
15:16:46
After a few Coronas, and a strawberry daiquiri, Jack signed a letter of intent (to sign for us) on a piece of bog roll that Stubbsy had in his pocket (for emergencies).
A contract is a contract. Welcome aboard, Jackie lad.
Paul Kossoff
16 Posted
08/08/2025 at
15:19:09
£12 million, for what? five goals, maybe five assists, If that helped us get into Europe or he wins a cup for us then obviously worth it. If not, what’s the point? Whole thing seems to me an American owner Hollywood signing. Rashford has just gone to Barcelona with all of his wages, £350,000 a week being paid by skint Man Utd. Please God the new owners aren’t another Moshiri Kenwright, Laurel and Hardy double act. What’s next? Moyes sacked and a Hollywood manager coming in, Koeman, Mourinho? Get a young hungry winger in for the right wing, not a 29 yr old, been there, done that, multi millionaire dodgy attitude for the left. Leave well alone, barge pole and don’t put your fingers in the fire springs to mind.
Colin Glassar
17 Posted
08/08/2025 at
15:30:06
Paul, just out of curiosity, who would you buy? I get the impression you like to be a contrarian. I may be mistaken but its just my impression.
Danny O’Neill
18 Posted
08/08/2025 at
15:32:53
Slight pedantic correction, Barcelona are paying all of Rashford’s wages after he agreed to take a pay cut.
Last season, Villa were paying 75% of his wages for the several months he was there, so about £250k per week.
Derek Knox
19 Posted
08/08/2025 at
15:34:57
In other words it is probably a load of shit ?
Colin Glassar
20 Posted
08/08/2025 at
15:42:41
Derek, knowing Stubbsy (and I do from a long way back), it was probably used. My mum and Mrs Stubbs were good mates back in the day. We used to call Alan, snotty. Figure it out😉
Paul Kossoff
21 Posted
08/08/2025 at
15:43:53
Danny,” Last season, Villa were paying 75% of his wages for the several months he was there, so about £250k per week.” £350,000, £250,000 a week, ( the poor lad.)what’s the difference to a multimillionaire? Hardly worth pointing out, other than an over rated, lazy man, is being paid obscene wages, and despite the fact he’s vertually useless, that someone is stupid enough to want him. Going back to the whole point of the post, it’s a bloody wonder that we weren’t in for him!
Paul Kossoff
22 Posted
08/08/2025 at
15:51:41
Colin, contrarian me? So Grealish to Everton is a popular opinion is it? Oh, I didn’t know that, silly me. Who would I buy? I would buy a right winger, not a left winger, that’s my opinion. Someone who can cross the ball to our untried £27 million center forward. And yes I usually don’t dive head first in to the waters of popular opinion, people tend to get soaked doing that.
Paul Kossoff
23 Posted
08/08/2025 at
15:59:00
If Everton can afford to throw £12 million in the bin for Grealish, then why not put that money to paying Southampton £50 million for Dibling, instead of hypocritically saying that’s too much. Southampton are saying, if EVERTON can throw £12 million at Grealish, they are obviously not skint, so let’s ask for more.
Kevin Molloy
24 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:00:47
cos we want both Paul, and no doubt will as a result end up with neither.
Paul Kossoff
25 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:04:51
Colin, Rafael Leão, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Nico Williams. For starters all better than your fav boy Grealish.😁
Paul Kossoff
26 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:07:38
Kevin, just one q. If we mistakenly get Grealish, where does McNeil play?
Andy Crooks
27 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:09:42
Also, your post @16, brought to mind the Sam Goldwyn comment, “I don’t want the same old cliches, give me new cliches!”
And, I do think you are a contrarian. Having said that, I think you don’t do “dull”. Keep it coming!!
Ian Bennett
28 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:10:10
Leeds, Burnley, Sunderland, Southampton…
Kevin Molloy
29 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:12:03
Paul, McNeil? pardon my French but if he’s lucky enough to be selected he’ll play where he’s told.
Paul Kossoff
30 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:19:17
A week later, a knock on the door, the man opens the door, no one there. He looks down and the snail he kicked says, “What the fuck was that for???”
Paul Kossoff
31 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:23:01
A day 27. “I don’t think any premier league player is virtually useless.”
Holgate, Chermiti, Patterson, oh and Grealish.😁
Paul Kossoff
32 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:26:13
You said I “don’t want the same old cliches, give me new cliches” but that’s the problem with Everton, it’s always the same old same old, isn’t it?
Colin Glassar
33 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:34:42
And McNeil btw, decent squad player that he is, isn’t good enough to wash Grealish’s left foot.
James Marshall
34 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:47:41
Or am I missing something?
I say we should do it – as I said on another thread, having a player like Grealish isn’t just a good signing on the football front, but also a good marketing signing for the club as a whole.
We need to raise our profile to match our new stadium and new direction and culture – that to me means signing established star names recognised across Europe and the world. Like him or loathe him, Grealish is that.
John Keating
35 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:50:39
£12M for a season and even half his wages! Nonsense!!
We have to get a grip here. Makes no sense whatsoever.
Some saying “If he gets us into Europe” etc etc. No, not for me. I’d sooner get young players in and take a couple of seasons to build a more sustainable squad.
Rome wasn’t built in a day!
James Marshall
36 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:54:58
Tyler Dibling at £50m on say a 4 year contract = £12.5m a year so same same isn’t it?
As Moyes said – we need elite names in our elite stadium.
Liam Mogan
37 Posted
08/08/2025 at
16:58:03
McNeil will get loads of game time even if Grealish signs, as Jack will need plenty of downtime for muscle injuries (aka hangover recovery).
Ed Prytherch
38 Posted
08/08/2025 at
17:07:49
As for Grealish playing only a small number of games on the right it is that same number of games more than Pirlo played at deep central midfield before he moved to Milan.
John Williams
39 Posted
08/08/2025 at
17:27:37
Dibling is more likely a slow burner, maybe not a regular starter and, as I have said earlier, if he is supposed to be that good, Everton would not be in the frame. The big boys would have snapped him up.
Peter Hodgson
40 Posted
08/08/2025 at
17:51:09
Yes we need a winger. The lad a Soton may be the answer. Okay he is going to cost about £50m plus wages BUT he is ours and as such can be sold on if we make something of him so the actual cost is unknown and may well be NIL/PROFIT.
That is a sensible way of looking at it, so I just can’t see the point of spending £12m on Grealish and encouraging the likes of City & Co to continue splashing out on players and wages that only they can afford.
James Marshall
41 Posted
08/08/2025 at
18:01:21
Culture shift. Stop all this local thinking. It’s time for a brave new world.
Remember when City bought Robinho – he was a catalyst.
When have we ever bought young players and had them change anything at the club in the short or long term? It never does anything because they never play – look at Chermiti as a recent example.
Nobody gives a shit, he never plays, he might as well not exist.
Jake FitzGerald
42 Posted
08/08/2025 at
18:04:16
Hes on the City contract until 2027. Cant imagine City wanting him back after hes had a year with us – a year older and still on £300k a week. Theres a deal to be done there.
Billy Shears
43 Posted
08/08/2025 at
18:08:29
If we don’t act fast on this one,others will!!!
Scott Hamilton
44 Posted
08/08/2025 at
18:15:23
TFG are not gangster bagmen like our last owner and I trust them to understand the clubs finances. If they think spending £12m on the wages of a player that, on his day, is one of the PLs finest, is OK then thats good enough for me.
Mike Gaynes
45 Posted
08/08/2025 at
18:26:04
It’s tip money for our new owners.
James #41, I’d nominate Jarrad and Jake as young players we bought who have made a massive difference.
Charles Brewer
46 Posted
08/08/2025 at
18:38:08
Now while I’m sure Dibling wouldn’t prove as catastrophic as Alli but in recent times there have been quite a few “one season wonders” – Rashford, Bellingham, Nunez who have proved very expensive “bets on youth”.
Dibling for £20 million for 3 years (he played for the spectacularly shit Southampton last year and scored virtually no goals, how good can he be?), and Grealish for £12 for a year sounds more rational to me.
Andy McGuffog
47 Posted
08/08/2025 at
18:52:34
Charles Brewer. Obviously Ali was a failed gamble. However the only poison being spread emanates from you.
Craig Harrison
48 Posted
08/08/2025 at
18:55:01
The lazy parasite had a documented history of mental health issues prior to us getting him from sours. If hazard a guess the only reason we did get him is because he was damaged goods. The parasite also save our premiership place against palace.
Ajay Gopal
49 Posted
08/08/2025 at
18:55:09
There could be multiple solutions to the 300K/week wage problem.
1 hypothetical solution – everyone takes a cut of the wages: Man City pay 125K, Everton pay 125K, Grealish gives up 50K. Man City might agree because that is 175K/week = 9 million in wages off the books, for Everton 125K/ week = 6.5 million for 1 season doesnt break the bank, and Grealish takes a 2.5 million haircut out of his 15 million wage packet to help him get to play regularly and a shot at the World Cup. And if he does well, I mean really well, like ‘10 goals + 10 assists well, then it would make sense for Everton to agree a 3 year deal at 200K/week, for example, which would cost the club 30 million in addition to any transfer fee agreed with Man City, which I imagine wouldnt be too high. All hypothetical, I know, but the point is that sensible solutions could be worked out.
Ben King
50 Posted
08/08/2025 at
18:59:43
Bellingham 1 season wonder???? Turn it on son!
Ryan Holroyd
51 Posted
08/08/2025 at
19:04:10
Look at the club accounts and the wages bill is well over 120m
Brian Harrison
52 Posted
08/08/2025 at
19:07:09
This move will only happen if the player wants the move, maybe when other clubs find out what deal Everton have struck with City then there will be more interested parties I am sure.
Jake FitzGerald
53 Posted
08/08/2025 at
19:08:21
Rarely have I seen so much ale house gibberish crammed into one post as Charles Brewers. Quite a feat.
Mike Gaynes
54 Posted
08/08/2025 at
19:08:25
Charles, that’s just garbage. He didn’t “poison” anything. That sort of venom is inappropriate.
Liam Mogan
55 Posted
08/08/2025 at
19:28:41
Alan Stubbs doing his best to play down Grealish’s party boy rep.
Colin Glassar
56 Posted
08/08/2025 at
19:44:00
Ill start….
Jake FitzGerald
57 Posted
08/08/2025 at
20:04:46
True, Colin. In the last 10 years weve had 7/8 of them with Viv Nicholson in charge of finances then a screeching reverse to Poundland budgets – its no wonder were not up to speed with realistic PL finances.
Mind you, I dont think any footballer should be of any more value than a Ford Focus.
Ian Bennett
58 Posted
08/08/2025 at
20:05:02
If youre a professional accountant, can you comment then?
Andy Crooks
59 Posted
08/08/2025 at
20:06:52
Jake, ” Viv Nicolson”?
Respect!!
Bobby Mallon
60 Posted
08/08/2025 at
20:31:02
Just pay his wages hes class
Dave Abrahams
61 Posted
08/08/2025 at
20:43:39
James (36) Yes James, we do need elite names to play in our elite stadium but those elite names have got to be able to play consistently, lets be honest there is a big doubt whether Grealish is still able to turn it on——a very big doubt I would think.
Bobby Mallon
62 Posted
08/08/2025 at
20:47:35
Charles 46 is defo a wind up merchant
Andrew McLawrence
63 Posted
08/08/2025 at
20:59:15
Not sure what version of Grealish has some people drooling. I see someone that falls over in a stiff breeze, invariably slows play down, and looks like he can’t be arsed most of the time. Makes Sterling look like George Best.
Stuart Sharp
64 Posted
08/08/2025 at
21:27:51
Andrew, I’m one that’s excited (perhaps not quite drooling). I get the potential frustration, but the Grealish you describe is hardly someone Guardiola would break transfer records for. I see a player who would get me out of my seat, who can leave defenders looking embarrassed, and yes, who can buy a foul when it’s needed. And a clear upgrade on what we have.
Sam Hoare
65 Posted
08/08/2025 at
21:50:46
Ive little interest in Grealishs profile but if hes motivated enough to help get us into the top ten then great. If hes able to turn back the clock enough to get us into Europe then that really does help move the dial. Im not sure how realistic that is this season which is why Im more tempted by developing stars for the future but Id be delighted for Grealish to prove me wrong.
Paul Kossoff
66 Posted
08/08/2025 at
22:31:25
Colin 33. “And McNeil btw, decent squad player that he is, isn’t good enough to wash Grealish’s left foot.” But Grealish is right footed, why would he want his left foot washed, he never uses it.😁
Jake FitzGerald
67 Posted
08/08/2025 at
22:39:52
Comparing Rodriguez to Grealish is a bit of a false equivalence, Sam. Grealish would probably see Everton on the same traditional level as Villa in a way Rodriguez wouldnt give a shit about, and I can see Grealish given an unleashed freedom he didnt have at City which hed relish – a last chance for him to prove a point that hes a generational talent that just got stymied in Peps single-minded machine.
Ive gone from Grealish-cynic to thinking – if Im playing for Everton, would I love it if Jack Grealish joined? Of course you would.
Colin Glassar
68 Posted
08/08/2025 at
22:46:54
Ive put my foot in it again, havent I, Paul?😉
Scott Hamilton
69 Posted
08/08/2025 at
23:02:35
Paul (66) – Isnt that Colins point? He couldve replaced “left foot” with “darts arm” or “German shepherd “ and I think we wouldve understood what he was saying.
Christine Foster
70 Posted
08/08/2025 at
23:09:05
Sam, I beg to differ, Ancelotti and James Rodriguez were a marketers dream, far bigger than the actual effect they had on the team, which is a different matter. But their appointments raised the profile of the club world wide, especially in South America, didn’t we light up a few skyscrapers and solvd a zillion shirts (mostly fake because of our crap deal)
In our position I would have taken a few aging world class stars instead of the Harrisons, Broja,s, Etc… but it’s more of an indictment of Moshiri that got us into Hail Mary territory in the first place. Anyway, water under a bridge. Hopefully it won’t be too long before we have current world class players contemplating joining us!
James Marshall
71 Posted
08/08/2025 at
23:24:22
We can all make a case either way, and not one of us is right – which is all the rage on social media and sites like this. The desire to be right about everything. But at the end of it all, we just have opinions and views on all things for the most part – especially transfers.
It definitely does get people interested though doesn’t it? You have to admit that – not just Grealish but Everton get more press pages, more social media traction and therefore our profile goes up.
If we spend the same money on a young up and coming player, nobody cares, nobody talks about it and therefore our profile doesn’t get raised.
You might not like the idea of Grealish for many reasons – he falls over, he gets pissed in Marbella, he wears a hairband or whatever other reason you pick, but it’s a fact that a player like Grealish will, does and is already raising our profile.
Neil Copeland
72 Posted
08/08/2025 at
23:28:13
Scott 69, I think Paul realised that already and was taking the piss
Ernie Baywood
73 Posted
08/08/2025 at
23:46:35
We would never pay that much per week.
Let’s say we offered 200k per week. That’s about 8 million for the season. Then consider that we have to have numbers in the squad anyway and we’ll probably loan someone if it’s not Grealish. The alternative is that we could go and loan a fairly average player for 50k a week. That’s already 2 million just to have coverage in the squad.
So do you gamble an additional 6 million for the year on Grealish being good, or take a squad filler?
I think it’s a 50/50 decision and comes down to whether City would accept sub-200k per week and whether Moyes sees him as a key player.
I actually think he fits a Moyes style. Start wide and fill or drift inside is pretty much the Moyes way. Can take a set piece too.
Colin Glassar
74 Posted
09/08/2025 at
00:47:24
Im seeing some interesting rumours on my Twitter feed that Everton will make a major announcement tomorrow before the game.
Steve Brown
75 Posted
09/08/2025 at
01:26:13
Ted Lasso to replace him.
Sam Hoare
76 Posted
09/08/2025 at
06:12:02
Christine@70 yes the skyscrapers etc made for good visuals but did it actually change much? Do we sell millions more shirts in South America? Did we get bumper revenue deals? Did we attract any top class players? I would again suggest it didnt really move the dial significantly and that only really happens with success on the pitch.
Janes@71 again Im not sure that some more newspaper articles and clickbait social media links really helps us hugely. It wont get more coverage than we got for being docked points. We got a lot of online coverage when Rodriquez signed but it came to little. There was some fanfare when Gazza signed for us but only because he was a celebrity. Id say its fairly meaningless and even potentially unhelpful. The only real consideration is what he can do for us on the pitch which is a hard thing to predict. If he is able to reach the heights, get us up the table and get back into the England starting XI then that definitely becomes more helpful of course and maybe thats plausible.
Justin Doone
77 Posted
09/08/2025 at
12:14:13
I’m positively surprised most posters agree this would be a good deal.
Much like monopoly money, football money is ridiculous and I don’t get too caught up in it so to keep it simple.
Does Grealish improve the first team, YES.
Can we afford £12M for a season, aprox £230k a week, YES (I believe so).
Is it too much of a gamble / risk for a season, NO.
Get it done!
Geoff Lambert
78 Posted
09/08/2025 at
12:20:04
Grealish and Dibling unveiled just before kick of Colin??
Mark Taylor
79 Posted
09/08/2025 at
12:43:26
I’d much sooner we got a RW and RB in sharpish. And I’d sooner we used KDH as a yardstick for value, not Dibling.
Dan Nulty
80 Posted
09/08/2025 at
13:37:41
Now Maddison injured fully expect him at Spurs
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