Confirmed Signing Jack Grealish

[diggerdestroyer]

Lad has quality. Delighted.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

I’m guessing we’ve just agreed to the stupidly high purchase clause to get the loan deal over the line. The wages if true of £250k per week have to be in place of a loan fee. That would be about right, maybe City have said no loan fee but you need to cover a significant portion of his wages

If so, then that makes more sense.

If there's still a loan fee of around £12m (as has been previously reported) on top of covering £250k of his £300k pw wages then, admittedly, this is a wee bit pricey for us that..

 

[Nymzee]

I presume the plan is to have Grealish win 30 fouls per game, KDH to whip them in, then all our goals coming from Barry, Tarky, Branthwaite and O'Brien.

 

[bluerobert]

If so, then that makes more sense.

If there's still a loan fee of around £12m as has been previously reported on top of covering £250k of his £300k pw wages then, admittedly, this is a wee bit pricey for us that..

My guess is City have probably binned off the loan fee for us to cover the wages, like I said that makes sense as that much in wages probably does equal about what the loan fee would be for a player like Grealish

 

[catcherintherye]

This feels a big statement from Everton... I'm interested in the wage bill...

Unless I'm mistaken, we'll pay £62mil for him in total if we sign him?

£50mil Purchase with £12mil Loan?

I think the loan fee is for the wages.

50m is an option we have.

 

[Bob Latchford]

What a signing that is!

Yes mate, very encouraging.

We’re being linked with Abdul Fatawu from you boys now… seems to be a lot of links all of a sudden. Might be a ploy, who knows!

 

[Moomin]

Fair enough I guess but are they there in capacity as the family of a player from 100 years ago or are they in those seats because Prentice works there?

I think for all clubs, the family of a player from that far back may get invited occasionally but not regularly.

You said they shouldn't be welcomed at all.

I agree with Prentice not being made welcome but to throw the whole family under the bus as well is a bit much.

 

[Kiwi_efc]

This bodes well

 

[Bluewolf]

If so, then that makes more sense.

If there's still a loan fee of around £12m (as has been previously reported) on top of covering £250k of his £300k pw wages then, admittedly, this is a wee bit pricey for us that..

It looks like were paying his £250k wages which is around £12m

 

[bullybeef]

Yes mate, very encouraging.

We’re being linked with Abdul Fatawu from you boys now… seems to be a lot of links all of a sudden. Might be a ploy, who knows!

Myers just put up Fatawu on Twitter

 

[Blue peter]

This is all well and good, but does he wear shinnies in training with knee length socks, and will he cut off the passing lanes?

 

[The binman chronicles]

Wow - only a 50k drop from his actual City wage. Lot of dough for us that if true...

As others have said, if we had paid 30 million for a player of his ilk, we could be looking at 10m down and another 5m in wages for the year. If we pay Grealish 13m we've actually saved some cash.

Of course we haven't got the reward of a potential sell on value is the issue. We also haven't got that risk of being stuck with someone on high wages, which is where we were with a lot of our players under Moshiri.

 

[Sam0697]

Grealish in... Rossy out.

What a day.

Rossys gone? Make it a national holiday

 

[catcherintherye]

TFG had a similar buy option when they loaned Lukaku at Roma too.

50m, what it does is gives us a foot in the door at the seasons end to renegotiate taking him permanently.

Yes. We would have asked for an option and City will protect themselves. There's no way that option gets taken up. FWIW if he does well, I can see another loan and then he's out of contract.

 

[chicoazul]

Good to see positive Evertonians with hope. It’s been a while…..

Shows why some deals are worth waiting for in the window, hope there’s a few more particularly in key positions that need addressing.

A coup for Everton and Moyes this.