Manchester City star Jack Grealish is Everton bound amidst Totenham Hotspur interest
Jack Grealish is set to shuffle from the Etihad Stadium to Goodison Park this summer transfer window, with transfer guru Fabrizio Romano confirming that the England international is set for a loan move to Everton with medicals booked for Monday.
For the Lilywhites supporters, this is another transfer rumour which was lurking in the background for the past weeks, and it has finally found its conclusion.
Grealish is a player that Daniel Levy came within a whisker of signing back in 2018 when Mauricio Pochettino pushed hard for the Lilywhites to attain his signature, and had that gone across, the North Londoners would have signed the England international for around £25m, but instead, he went on to become a £100m man at Manchester City.
And Tottenham were also revolving around his signatures this window, but that didn’t come through, with Everton securing his services.
So why didn’t Tottenham sign Grealish this time around?
Manchester City star Jack Grealish is Everton bound amidst Totenham Hotspur interest.
Tottenham had again been linked with a move for Jack Grealish
Jack Grealish slipped down the pecking order at Man City last season, and that was quite visible after the Englishman was left out of their Club World Cup squad. Now he needs ample game time under his belt as he looks to push for a place in Thomas Tuchel’s England squad for the World Cup next year.
The North Londoners were linked, but it never looked like they would move to sign him.
Manchester City star Jack Grealish is Everton bound amidst Totenham Hotspur interest.
Should Thomas Frank have preferred Grealish?
The Dane head coach has been looking to bring in more younger and more versatile attacking midfielders like Harvey Elliott and Eberechi Eze who can be part of the project at Hotspur Way for years rather than the short-term fix that Grealish would have been.
The Man City star has a massive £300,000-a-week wage, and the fact that City wanted to get that salary off their books meant that it would have been too hefty for the wage book that Daniel Levy has carefully curated at N17 in the past decade. And now with James Maddison injured, Tottenham will likely have to look for creative solutions for the creative problems at Hotspur Way.
And at Everton, David Moyes promised to give Grealish a key role in a squad that is still under a rebuilding project, while the Toffees are also unlikely to cover his full salary, but the fact that they have sold him on the idea of playing every week will be something Thomas Frank cannot guarantee. I don’t think this goes down as a missed opportunity for Tottenham, and now the focus at N17 shifts to buying someone who can stay in the second/third phase for years to come…