Manchester City learn Everton stance on £50M Jack Grealish deal after foot surgery | OneFootball

Everton’s stance on a permanent deal for Manchester City and England star Jack Grealish this summer has been revealed in a new report.

Grealish joined forces with David Moyes at the Hill Dickinson Stadium last summer to revitalise his club career and stake a strong claim to force his way into the thinking of England manager Thomas Tuchel ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The 30-year-old struggled for regular playing time in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons under Pep Guardiola, who left the door open for Grealish to find a new club last summer, when Manchester City appointed Hugo Viana as director of football to rebuild the first-team squad.

Viana signed off on the exits of a series of senior first-team stars over the course of the 2025 summer transfer window, with Grealish deciding to join Everton on loan for the 2025-26 season with an option for the Toffees to make the move permanent for £50 million at the end of the campaign.

Grealish made a blistering start to life in Merseyside in 2025 and was voted as the Premier League Player of the Month for August, with Toffees fans and Moyes ecstatic with the former Aston Villa captain’s impact early into his move from Manchester.

However, the Birmingham-born attacker has failed to rack up the goals and assists that will inevitably do the talking for him as Grealish looks to challenge for a place in the England squad that will compete in the United States, Mexico and Canada this summer.

In a crushing blow for Manchester City’s record signing, Moyes has admitted that Grealish could be out for the rest of the season after suffering a foot stress fracture in Everton’s 1-0 win over Aston Villa on January 18.

The setback raised questions over what this means for Grealish and a possible permanent transfer to Everton this summer, with the Manchester City £100 million man’s current deal at the Etihad Stadium running till 2027.

Previewing Everton’s Premier League clash away at Brighton on Saturday, Moyes provided an update on where Grealish’s rehabilitation will occur. “He’s actually not our player, he’s Manchester City’s,” the Everton manager said in a press conference on Friday afternoon, as quoted by Mail Sport’s Lewis Steele.

“Really, in any of these situations they’d normally be taken over by the parent club. I think at the moment we’re going to probably control most of Jack’s situation.”

In a major boost for Grealish and his camp, further reporting from Steele has mentioned that Everton retain an interest in signing the Manchester City forward on a permanent basis for £50 million this summer.

City are still paying 75 percent of Grealish’s wages – understood to be around £300,000-per-week – at Everton and executives at the Etihad Stadium will be keen to get the winger off their books at the end of the season, with little chance of the Englishman forcing his way back into Guardiola’s thinking.