JACK GREALISH has agreed to join Everton on loan.
Grealish’s future at Manchester City had been in doubt following just seven Premier League starts last season.
PAJack Grealish has agreed to join Everton on loan[/caption]
And City boss Pep Guardiola suggested earlier in the summer that the £100million man needed to find a new club to rediscover his form and passion.
Everton manager David Moyes was quick to register his interest in Grealish – but the player’s £300,000-a-week wages proved a stumbling block.
But talks between the two clubs progressed as a deal for City to cover a cut of Grealish’s wages was being negotiated.
And now the Toffees have struck an agreement with City to take the out-of-sorts playmaker on for the season.
According to Fabrizio Romano, a medical has been booked for TODAY with a deal expected to be wrapped up in the next 24 hours.
Grealish signed for City from boyhood club Aston Villa in 2021 in a then-Prem record move.
And he has won three league titles in Manchester as well as lifting the Champions League trophy in 2023.
But his form has dipped in recent seasons – culminating in being frozen out of City’s pre-season preparations this summer.
Grealish managed only three goals in 32 games last season – with Guardiola encouraging the forward to explore a move away.
Guardiola said in June: “Jack is an exceptional player. The only reason why he didn’t play last season is of course my decisions.
“We decide that he has to play. The club was honest, he was honest.
“We decide the best is to stay [behind] and have a place that he can feel like he can come back to be the player like he was in the year of the treble or all his career in Aston Villa.
“The fact is in the last two seasons he didn’t play much minutes. He has to come back to play and have the butterflies in his stomach that he can play every three days, every three days and show again the quality he has.”
AFPCity boss Pep Guardiola with Grealish[/caption]
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