Club are likely to spend over £12m to bring the Manchester City winger to the Hill Dickinson Stadium for a year
Jack Grealish has agreed a deal with Everton to join the Merseyside club on a season-long loan.
The 29-year-old is expected to undergo a medical at Everton on Monday, with the deal to be finalised shortly after.
The numbers behind the move are yet to be concluded but Everton are likely to spend over £12m – including paying part of the player’s £300,000-a-week wages – to make it possible.
Grealish has struggled for a long time at the fringes of the City squad. He made only seven starts in the Premier League last season, 16 in all competitions. He was on the bench in the FA Cup final at Wembley and young debutant Claudio Echeverri was preferred ahead of him when City were chasing an all-important late equaliser.
He was also omitted from Pep Guardiola’s squad for the Club World Cup. It is understood the move was to allow Grealish time and space to sort out his future.
Since then, the winger has trained alone while the rest of the squad went on a break, although he eventually rejoined the group when their four-week holiday ended.
Grealish was signed for £100m from Aston Villa in 2021 but has struggled to do anything close to justifying that price tag. His best spell in a City shirt was in the 2022-23 season when he helped the Sky Blues lift a historic treble, but his form and fortunes have dipped since.
