Jack Grealish of Manchester City
Jack Grealish of Manchester City(Image: Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)
David Moyes has already expressed his admiration for Everton-linked Jack Grealish back when Manchester City’s £100million man was still at Aston Villa. The out-of-favour England international is now deemed surplus to requirements at the Etihad Stadium.
The BBC reported last week that City boss Pep Guardiola is set to leave him out of his squad for the FIFA Club World Cup taking place in the USA later this month.
And now a new piece in the Daily Mail claims Everton are monitoring Grealish's situation. The article states: “Inside Sport understands that no talks have taken place between the two clubs, but that the Merseyside outfit is aware of Grealish’s availability.
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“Any potential move would be likely to be in the shape of a loan deal, with the former Aston Villa man’s £300,000-a-week wages an issue with the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules continuing to trigger headaches across the competition. However, bringing the England international to Bramley-Moore Dock would be seen as a serious statement of intent for the club’s new owners, the Friedkin Group.”
Also included in the article are some quotes from Blues boss Moyes heaping praise on Grealish back in 2021. The Scot said: “He is a really good player and probably the best player in the Premier League at this time.
“He has done such a big job at that club (Villa) and is probably the best player in the league right now.”
The first Englishman to move for a nine-figure fee, Grealish quit his home city club where he’d been since the age of six, when he joined City for £100m on August 5, 2021.
Despite winning a hat-trick of Premier League titles with the club, and a Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup ‘treble’ in 2023, which was followed up by successes in the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup (starting in all four major finals the team played that year), the winger, who turns 30 in September, has fallen down the pecking order and made just seven Premier League starts in 2024/25.