Anjishnu Roy 09/08/2025 18comments  |  Jump to last

Everton have stepped up their efforts to sign Jack Grealish from Manchester City and are willing to make him their statement signing of the summer.

Paul Joyce of The Times reports, “Further conversations have now taken place between the clubs as Everton look to establish the parameters by which an agreement can be brokered.

“Initial inquiries have gleaned that City are seeking to recoup as much of Grealish’s £300,000-a-week wage as possible, which could amount to a financial commitment of at least £12million. That has not served to dissuade Everton and talks have continued in the belief the player is willing to move.”

Signed from Aston Villa for a then-British transfer record of £100 million in 2021, the 29-year-old has won three Premier League titles and helped Pep Guardiola’s side achieve the treble in 2022-23. 

However, he has fallen out of favour with the manager and is aiming to revive his career with a move away. Everton can offer Grealish the prospect of regular game with the chance to impress Thomas Tuchel before the World Cup next summer.

David Moyes’ side, often frustrated by the lack of creativity in the final third and output in front of goal, will be wishing they get the version of Grealish that was the talisman at Aston Villa and his early years at City rather than the afterthought he’s been in the last two years.

Everton have also been left frustrated in their efforts to sign Tyler Dibling from Southampton. They made three separate bids for the 19-year-old winger, the last of which was about £37million including add-ons, and there remains a huge discrepancy between the two clubs’ valuations.

Dibling is keen on a move but any hopes of resurrecting a deal would depend on Southampton’s intent on lowering their financial demands. The teenager was left out of the squad for their 2-1 victory over Wrexham in the Championship on Saturday.

“There are a few players who are where they’re at in their careers and making choices, so Tyler won’t be there,” said Southampton manager Will Still while explaining his decision.

The Toffees have signed five players so far this summer, including Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, who made his first start for the club in the friendly against AS Roma on Saturday.

 

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Gavin Johnson
1 Posted 09/08/2025 at 19:52:08
Will be absolutely made up if we bring in both of them. We'll arguably have our best squad since the summer of 2020 when Carlo brought in James, Allan and Doucoure.
Ian Wilkins
2 Posted 09/08/2025 at 19:53:37
Tho I’d prefer to buying players not loan to return, we desperately need some who can keep, love and cherish the football. And inject a bit of quality.
Christian Hill
3 Posted 09/08/2025 at 21:46:03
Happy to spend £12m on a Grealish season long loan or even £20m for two seasons if that means we can spend a bit more money to get either Dibling or Kubo on permanent deals. I still think we need a more prolific goalscorer though, watching today's Roma match we don't have one.
Kevin Molloy
4 Posted 09/08/2025 at 21:57:03
it shows what clowns the recruitment team are. Three bids over the last ten days, all of them miles away from Soton's valuation. why do they insist on wasting everyone's time. you don't see Brighton trying to get players that they know will end up at spurs or AN other CL team, they know their market and their place. but we are spending a month 'opening negotiations' over a loan for Jack Grealish. It just feels like BS.
David West
5 Posted 09/08/2025 at 22:02:01
Kev.
You just don't follow Brighton like you follow Everton. I'm sure they don't just have all their bids accepted!
Likewise,should we just except whatever value clubs place on our targets ?
Come on mate, it's not that simple is it ?
Kevin Molloy
6 Posted 09/08/2025 at 22:05:34
David

the word is we've hit a brick wall with the negotiations with Dibling. And then we find out that we're about ten million quid away, having made three bids. That smacks of unprofessionalism, particularly when we more than any other team needed to recruit early. We've got at best 2/3 of a squad at the moment, and the first game is now a week away. And then we have that Idiot gassing on about how 'proud' he is with the new recruitment team, as if he's running a clockwork operation, rather than this farce.

Mike Gaynes
7 Posted 09/08/2025 at 22:11:36
Kevin, I'm guessing there isn't much contract negotiation in your background.
Kevin Molloy
8 Posted 09/08/2025 at 22:19:57
actually Mike I do negotiate contracts, not like this though. And I'm just relying on what Paul Joyce is saying, that we've hit a wall. I don't think this is just a tactic, I reckon we're wasting our time at this point (just my impression of how the last two weeks have gone) I don't recall previous negotiations where we put in three bids and we're still over ten million quid away from the asking price. And the longer it goes on, the more likely even if we do get a breakthrough spurs steal. in at the death. fi we were going to get this done it should have been done quickly.
Colin Glassar
9 Posted 09/08/2025 at 22:28:57
Everton is going to have to bite the bullet if they want to get Grealish, Dibling and a good right back.

Stop fannying around. Get serious. Either pay up or shut up.

Mike Allison
10 Posted 09/08/2025 at 23:09:49
I’d say we’ve got 21/25ths of a squad. We’ve done okay in recruiting, but need 4 more, 2-3 of whom need to be real difference-making match-winners.

The right players eventually, not the wrong players quickly. Also at a cost that leaves us room to continue building in the future.

It was never going to be easy if we want real quality, you have to play the game and the game is difficult.

Ian Pilkington
11 Posted 10/08/2025 at 00:13:29
Southampton will have to lower their price for Dibling as no other serious bidders appear to be on the horizon and the player clearly wants to join us.
There is no evidence of interest from Spurs.

Mike Gaynes
12 Posted 10/08/2025 at 00:36:56
Kevin, the only way to get this done quickly would be to have simply paid Saints' asking price without negotiating. Is that what you would have suggested?

I would posit that previous negotiations are irrelevant. This is a new ownership and a new team. And I would remind you that TFG's negotiating style is to walk away when the deal isn't right... and then come back in at the death. They did it to buy both Roma and Everton. Why would you expect different in a player purchase this large?

Ian #11, that would appear to be what TFG are betting on. And I think it's significant that for Saints' Championship opener with Hollywood Wrexham, a game generating huge interest and widespread TV coverage, Dibling was kept out of the gameday squad.

Gavin Johnson
13 Posted 10/08/2025 at 01:25:55
I was sold us on going back for Dibling when I saw his numbers were better than Gordon's when we sold him. Dibling is also younger than when Gordon left..

Offer them £40m and up to £10m in add-ons. Given we sold Gordon for £40m with £5m in add-ons it seems fair to me.

Get the bigger signings through the door this summer then we can play tougher with negotiations next summer when we should have hopefully finished in the lower end of the top half of the table, or maybe even grabbed a European conference place.

Btw, on a side note. Dewsbury Hall looked class today. Looks like he will be a fantastic signing.

Ernie Baywood
14 Posted 10/08/2025 at 01:36:20
The point of those bids is to reduce the price we eventually pay. If we weren't 10M away then we'd already have a deal.

Add much as we hate it when it happens to us, the negotiation is working. Dibling isn't playing for them again - they can negotiate all they want but that fact has already reduced his worth to Southampton.

Craig Scott
15 Posted 10/08/2025 at 05:42:46
I don't think we should sign Grealish even on reduced wages. He'll still be earning far more than any other player we have, and we run the risk of another, perhaps less risky, Dele Ali situation.

Same with Dibling. $45-50M is far too much for him. I like that he is young and so may have a good future with sell on potential, but it's still a gamble and if we're going down that path, we should have already recruited three young prospects with potential at that price which would have also beefed up the roster.

The strategy to scramble around on the transfer 'dancefloor' desperately looking for suitors as the night draws to an end is one we've pursued for a number of fruitless seasons now, so we should have looked at trying other recruitment approaches.

Jim Bennings
16 Posted 10/08/2025 at 06:33:21
Get them as soon as possible if they are the deals we want doing, make them happen.

Grealish is a class football player and this is his season where he has a shot at probably his last World Cup next summer.

As for Dibling, throw them one last sensible bid if that fails then walk away and get on the phone straight away to Sociedad and ask them what they want for Kubo who I think may actually turn out to be a better signing than Dibling anyway.

Just stop wasting another week with protracted negotiation

Jim Bennings
17 Posted 10/08/2025 at 06:50:06
What we don't want to be doing with Dibling is what we did with Gnonto two summers ago and waste weeks on end offering less than what the sellers want.

Colin Glassar
18 Posted 10/08/2025 at 07:07:59
Or a Zouma, Jim.

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