Thinking about next year, and what's the likelihood of us just loaning him again?
Assuming this whole season goes well for him:
He has no reason to want to give up the last year of his 300k a week contract, Pep almost certainly won't reintegrate him again regardless of how good he is, he might still be unwilling to move himself and his family elsewhere, we probably still won't want to drop 50m. So we just loan him again, and then he becomes a free agent the year after and can make his own decision as to whether he wants to go and get one last big payday somewhere or sign for us on a free with whatever wages we offer.
Assuming this whole season goes well for him:
He has no reason to want to give up the last year of his 300k a week contract, Pep almost certainly won't reintegrate him again regardless of how good he is, he might still be unwilling to move himself and his family elsewhere, we probably still won't want to drop 50m. So we just loan him again, and then he becomes a free agent the year after and can make his own decision as to whether he wants to go and get one last big payday somewhere or sign for us on a free with whatever wages we offer.
ElGato
Player Valuation: £15m
My sincere apologies. I didn't realise your original post was purely observational, and that there were no intentions from yourself to convey an underlying dissatisfaction with the transfer. In fact, I now see that you were largely in favour of it all along.But he has had questionable off field behaviour and is on ridiculous wages so why on earth would you try and debate either of those two thingshe’s had a very good start to his Everton career but maybe lets give it a bit longer before we declare him “back to his best” also, as his best was worthy of netting him a £100m transfer let’s not forget. If he was still at his best, City would not have loaned him out to Everton would they? Just to be clear, he doesn’t have to be “his best” to be good enough for us either.
The bolded bit is the only bit of gaslighting going on here btw.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
It really just says a lot about the way our fanbase think though doesn’t it. There’s absolutely no room for nuance in any situation, every player is either werld class or utter crap lad, if you don’t think a player is werld class then you obviously think he’s utter crap lad. In no way can a player be a good footballer while at the same time being a bit of a gamble of a signing for a variety of reasons for a club in our notorious financial circumstances. The most reactionary and polarised fanbase that’s ever existed.
Toffe3m4n
Player Valuation: £80m
Thought this myself.
For all intents and purposes, his time at City is done. He seems to have already really taken to the club and the fans, so you'd imagine that he'd be very open to staying beyond this season.
Think the spanner in the works however is indeed that he enters his last year of his City contract next season, so they'll deffo be wanting to try and cash in if they can..
Blue83
Player Valuation: £30m
No chance we get him on a loan again next season if he's playing this well, if we don't buy him there will definitely be a Champion's League team offering him a more attractive option unless we manage to sneak a CL spot ourselves
bluerobert
Player Valuation: £35m
Didn’t really know where to post this
ElGato
Player Valuation: £15m
The irony in this statement is delicious
smileychap
Player Valuation: £10m
Honoured to be brought to heel by Everton pre-match writer's GOAT
I need to shift weight and living off Grealish humble pie suits me fine. Keep at it Jack
Bishop Thumpety-Thump
Player Valuation: £20m
Bit tricky that, he hides his posting history like all cowards do.The number of lads searching @SJB posting history for a revenge vault must easily be in double figures
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
It’s actually very easy to do, I’ve got a few of his Jake O’Brien quotes loaded up in preparation for the right moment. He really doesn’t like him, I suspect it’s something to do with him taking Young’s place in the team last season.
There’s no way we sign Grealish. Even on loan. He’ll end up at Napoli or back at Villa. They have European football to offer.
ElGato
Player Valuation: £15m
Look, you'll find numerous examples of me on here defending positions of nuance over reactionary comment. I find the transfer thread to be one of the most negative and hysterical forums on here, where most opinion is informed by nothing more than casual tabloid sensationalism.
One thing I won't do is pull you up for having your opinions. I might debate you on the merits of them, but ultimately it is your choice to feel dissatisfied and provide rationale for that. I don't disagree that Jack Grealish is probably 'past his best', is overpaid (along with every other footballer on the face of the planet) and was probably a bit of a gamble. I will disagree that he has 'questionable off field behaviour', but let's not get into the ins and outs of casual tabloid sensationalism right now.
One thing I will pull you up on, though, is if you pretend not to have had those opinions, or that you meant something different by them than you originally intended. You were quite clearly dissatisfied with the decision for Everton to be in for Grealish (along with being generally dissatisfied, it seems, with every other piece of transfer business in the summer) for the aforementioned reasons. You were very vocal about that dissatisfaction to the point where you evidently didn't want the transfer to go ahead.
Now he looks like our most important player, and someone has pulled you up on that original foundation. Can you admit that you were wrong, and that it was a good bit of business?
Bishop Thumpety-Thump
Player Valuation: £20m
Here’s why he hides his posts, he doesn’t like stalkers on the internet. Except when he does it himself apparently.
The bloodbath continues.
Good, this is the reckoning and healing we need.
Good, this is the reckoning and healing we need.
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