Jack Grealish ready to make major sacrifice to fulfil Manchester City wish next summer | OneFootball

Manchester City forward Jack Grealish is ready to receive a significant drop in wages to secure a permanent move to Everton next summer, as per a new report.

The 29-year-old has joined Everton on loan for the 2025-26 season to play regularly as he looks to revitalise his career and stake a claim in Thomas Tuchel’s thinking for England’s 2026 FIFA World Cup squad.

Grealish made just seven starts in the recent Premier League campaign under Pep Guardiola, with the third season of his four-year stint at the Etihad Stadium wherein the winger has struggled for consistent minutes.

After joining Manchester City for a club-record £100 million from Aston Villa in 2021, Grealish took time to adapt to life under Guardiola in his first year at the club. However, the former Aston Villa captain starred in his second year and played a key role in City’s historic treble.

The England international started each of Manchester City’s knockout games in the 2022-23 UEFA Champions League campaign as the Blues ended their European hoodoo to bring him their maiden Champions League title after years of disappointment.

Grealish benefitted from the entirety of Guardiola’s trust that year and forged a strong partnership with his good friend Erling Haaland in attack, with Kevin De Bruyne running the strings in the Manchester City midfield.

However, injuries and personal struggles derailed Grealish from kicking on from the highs of the treble in the 2023-24 season, with those frustrations carried into the recent campaign – which was Grealish’s fourth year in Manchester City colours.

After failing to make England’s 2024 European Championship squad under Gareth Southgate, Grealish was snubbed by Thomas Tuchel in each of his first two squads as Three Lions boss, with the former Chelsea head coach making it clear that Grealish needs to be playing regularly at club level to turn around his national team fortunes.

However, having made a promising start to life at Everton, Grealish is already believed to be eyeing a permanent stay at the Hill Dickinson Stadium beyond his current loan, which will end next summer, as reported by Football Insider.

Everton are understood to be covering one-fourth of Grealish’s £300,000-per-week wages and the Toffees retain an option to buy their new forward on a permanent basis next summer, when he would be entering the final year of his Manchester City contract.

Though the Merseyside club are said to be ready to meet the £50 million buy clause, Everton cannot afford Grealish’s current wages and would need the attacker to accept a significant reduction to his salary for a permanent deal to materialise in 2026.

Grealish is ready to take a pay cut and make his Everton move permanent next summer, with the Birmingham-born star understood to have accepted over the course of this summer that his Manchester City career is as good as over.