“Best feeling ever” – Jack Grealish resumes training at Finch Farm after foot fracture

Hope we sign him again, fingers crossed

Uh, did he just say, "back on the grass"? A sly dig at Moyes there. Alright, maybe not.

Thought he was more an fan of the lemo than the grass tbf

Why is he at FF. I know we want to buy him, but he's still a City player. I thought he would have gone back to them.

It isn't every day that a player of his calibre wants to sign for us so we'd be mad not to do it.

Sound just need to take a third of your current wage Jack, and we'll have you full time !!

PH #4, you may have heard the expression "Once Everton touches you..."

PH, his loan ends on June 30.

Mike (7) Yes Mike those players were on £100’s a week not £ 100,000’s a week I think that makes a big difference when they speak about the club.

“ Hit the road Jack and don’t come back no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don’t come back no more”

We missed his assists, control and composure hugely.

I hope we can do a deal to sign him on a further season’s loan.

Dave 10. Wat you say!!!

It's been almost a month since we posted this optimistic story about Jack Grealish. And since then there has been a stream of almost daily clickbait nonsense linking him with Everton in one way or another.

The latest today is from Richard Dunne, reported in the Echo, speaking courtesy of Harry Kane World Cup 2026 goals:

“Jack might not be at the same level as he was a few years ago, but he was the first £100million player from England and he still has that talent. I think he showed that for Everton last season and we’d like to see it again next season.

“I think if you’re in a team that isn’t massively possession-based and you’re sitting back, trying to counter-attack against teams, Jack is great. If you’re under the cosh, you can give the ball to him and know that you’re going to get out because he’ll either carry it 60 yards up the pitch or win a free-kick and that’s invaluable.

“There are very few like him in the Premier League. I think a lot of teams try and progress by passing the ball through the pitch but he’s a player who can do all that work on his own with his dribbling.

“It felt like it was unfinished business with Jack Grealish and Everton last season. He was doing so well and then getting the injury that ruled him out for the second half of the campaign was difficult.

“He’s taken a real liking to Everton and the Everton fans have taken a real liking to him. I think he’s one of those players in the Premier League who can make a difference.”

Why the delay?

Have they got alternative targets?

Why the surprise?

Everton want a loan or modest fee, Jack wants the final year of his deal, and Man City want the best financial deal for them.

Time will sharpen minds on all sides to sort it out.

"If you’re under the cosh, you can give the ball to him and know that you’re going to get out because he’ll either carry it 60 yards up the pitch or win a free-kick and that’s invaluable."

Wisdom from Dunne. People sometimes chuckle when I speak of Jack's defensive value, since he puts in about one tackle a game, but he really does provide security in exactly the way Dunne describes, and he was missed over the second half of the season as we gave the ball away more in the midfield.

Ian 15,

If that for me, nothing our club does surprises me.

Just my view that, if we wait, it'll get cheaper.

I know I've not watched many games of ours last season but moving the ball 60 yards up the pitch means taking it from our box to the opposition box... roughly.

In those games I did watch, I don't remember Grealish doing that. Was this something he only did when I wasn't watching?

You watched enough to award Moysey a gold star for his efforts Eric.

Eric (19),

You would have noticed if Jack had made one of those 60-yard runs, he would have been blowing out of his arse for the next 5 minutes and been offside for most of them.

He's allegedly taken a 4 yr lease on a fancy box at BMD (cashwise peanuts for him in real terms) he's at Finch farm doing rehab. Seems like he's only waiting for those involved to sign the papers.

Now he seems like a nice lad and he's not the worst player in the world and Moyes likes him apparently.

But it's going to be 8 months before he kicks a ball in anger and a month after that...if he does...he turns 31.

Then we come to his wages. He's rumoured to be on £330,000 a 'kin week at City.
What they pay him is not our problem, or it shouldn't be, that exorbitantly high figure was for the A grade 26 yr old England international version, it was and is 'silly city style' money - not our problem.

Say he took a 50% pay cut (fat chance) even at £165,000 it's a big leap of faith for us, bearing in mind we're definitely NOT getting the 26yr old A grade International version, we seem to be lining up for the next few years to give arl Jack the lad a nice little pension topper upper.

If Kenwright or Moshiri were to pull this sort of cupid stunt...and it's likely they did!...how did that work out for us then, how happy were you?

All for a soon to be 31 yr old who hasn't kicked a ball for nigh on 8 months.

Yet again, short term-ism from Everton - I thought we were done with all that rubbish.

Yeah but he's a nice lad said a teary spokesperson for ghost of W Kenwright (deceased) he came round and helped me put up my Christmas tree...or some such shite...allegedly.

Who is running this fuckin Transfer Committee - Colin Crompton?...faint echoes of a clanging bell suggest he is.

Edit: short version - No! I'm not alright Jack.

When did I do that, John?

So I didn't miss anything then Dave #21?

Eric (19), Dunne is no doubt exaggerating a bit but it is also only fair to point out that most ball carries on the pitch will not be in a straight line and nor do they have to be at top speed.

I think the point is that he can look after possession well enough to take a significant amount of pressure off a team that tends to be out of possession more often than not.