{"id":64463,"date":"2025-08-13T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64463\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:47:09","slug":"jack-grealish-joins-everton-on-loan-from-manchester-city-in-bid-to-reignite-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64463\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Grealish joins Everton on loan from Manchester City in bid to reignite his career"},"content":{"rendered":"

England midfielder Jack Grealish will look to reignite his career after joining Everton<\/a> on a season-long loan deal from Manchester City<\/a> on Wednesday (AEST).<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Grealish, one of the poster boys of English football, became the country’s most expensive player after a 2021 move from Aston Villa to City for $207 million.<\/p>\n

He was a regular pick in City’s historic 2022-23 season when the team won the Champions League, Premier League<\/a> and FA Cup.<\/p>\n

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\"Jack<\/p>\n

Jack Grealish of Manchester City celebrates after scoring.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

However, Grealish has fallen out of favour over the last two seasons, not even making City’s squad for the recent Club World Cup, and has chosen to move to Everton for a season ahead of the 2026 World Cup in North America.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m over the moon to have signed for Everton \u2014 it\u2019s massive for me, honestly,\u201d Grealish said of a team without a major trophy since 1995.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a great club, with great fans.”<\/p>\n

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\"Jack<\/p>\n

Jack Grealish of Manchester City celebrates after scoring.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The loan switch removes not only a high-earner from City’s wage bill but also one of the many attacking midfielders built up in City’s stacked squad.<\/p>\n

Grealish often had a free, roaming role when making his name at Villa, but had to be more disciplined and restricted as a left-sided forward in City manager Pep Guardiola’s system of play.<\/p>\n

Everton manager David Moyes will try to get the best out of Grealish again, with the team’s first match of the Premier League season at Leeds on Tuesday (AEST).<\/p>\n

Everton’s first game at its new 53,000-seat waterfront home at Bramley-Moore Dock is a week later against Brighton.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as I spoke to the manager, I knew there was only one place that I wanted to go,\u201d Grealish said.<\/p>\n

Grealish has swapped a likely title-contending team for one expected to be midtable at best this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very strange decision for him, but you can see why: Because he wants to get into the national team,\u201d former England international Steve McManaman said at an ESPN news conference in New York.<\/p>\n

Grealish said he spoke to former Everton player Wayne Rooney before agreeing to the move and will wear the same number \u2014 18 \u2014 on the back of his jersey.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were other numbers but my two favourite English players ever are Wayne Rooney and Paul Gascoigne and I know they both wore No.18 here,” Grealish said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, as soon as I knew this deal was close, I had a look and No.18 was free, so that was perfect for me and it was the only number I was going to take from that point.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England midfielder Jack Grealish will look to reignite his career after joining Everton on a season-long loan deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-64463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}