Confirmed Signing Jack Grealish

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Grealish, Ndaiye, Dewsbury-Hall, Alcaraz will be interesting seeing how these pieces fit together.

There's some really good potential for good footy there once everyone's on the same wavelength.

Get some pace on the right and I might be getting pulled back in!
 
Knowing a finished Gazza wore 18 for us has got to be some of the most niche new signing trivia we've ever had.
I thought that was pretty funny.

Idk if its just bs interwebs talk or what, but ive read multiple places JG wanted to come here when he heard about our interest. If true, its probably more related to our geographical positioning than us being Everton(ie he wont have to move house, his morning drive is just a little different), but im gonna pretend we were his second team as a kid.
 
One thing that is undeniable about Jack is that he’s an absolutely fantastic human being, way before any link to Everton, whenever scrolling through Facebook reels (or equivalent) the amount of videos I’ve seen of him treating people from all walks of life with respect and humanity is truly heart warming. His relationship with his disabled sister is truly wonderful. He seems like such a good and kind human being, no matter the wealth or reputation.

The media seem to have it in for him a little bit, but he just seems a class act on and off the pitch, from his come out performance (against Liverpool for a poor Villa side) where he ran the show as a kid in a cup game, to sticking with Villa through relegation and their resurgence, going to city and probably having to adapt his game, but is still highly thought of by city fans despite for large periods them not seeing the real Grealish. Also, his reaction when that lunatic attacked him from behind in the Villa Birmingham game where he carried on playing and possibly, if memory serves, went on to score the winning goal.

We as Everton fans have seen loads of garbage since Moyes left last time, and often questioned how arsed the players were, this lad seems to of had a massive influence on getting this deal done add that to his talent and what I’ve mentioned above about is humanity, it’s a great signing.

Also low risk, the whole deal may end up costing 18m for a season and when you consider almost a decade ago we paid £13.5m for Oumar Niasse (plus wages) then even if he’s bang average, he goes back to city and we move on.

It’s also nowhere near the same as Deli Alli, he’d lost his way for 2-3 years before joining, was even highlighted on the the Spurs documentary that he’d dropped off to a point fo no return. He was one of Lampard’s many many mistakes.
 

Why is tracking back such a huge thing for blues? I don't want my 10 to 'track back'.
We’ve been used to the “dogs of war” and 90 minutes of shouts from the lower bullens of “gerrafter im”.

When Garner ran a circuit of the pitch chasing after the ball which was switched from left to right by the opposition last season, he fell back into position and got a standing ovation.

We do as a fan base have a role to play in lifting our expectations and ambitions from a hoofball hit and rush team to one that resembles the school of science but there’s 30 years of PTSD engrained in us.
 
So what % of his wages are we paying anyway?
I'd say at least 50%

Which will still make him our highest earning player on the books for a year. Mad when you think about it. I wonder if that will have any effect on other players. Wage structure has been truly ahattered
 

I thought that was pretty funny.

Idk if its just bs interwebs talk or what, but ive read multiple places JG wanted to come here when he heard about our interest. If true, its probably more related to our geographical positioning than us being Everton(ie he wont have to move house, his morning drive is just a little different), but im gonna pretend we were his second team as a kid.
I like to think Grealish knows his history. He was at the top of his game playing for an old school club, where the fans adored him. He knew their history, and he'll know ours. It just feels right to me.
 

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