England midfielder Jack Grealish has joined Everton on a season-long loan from Manchester City as he seeks to restart his stalled international career.
City paid Aston Villa a then-British record Stg 100 million ($A207m) for the player, now 29, in 2021 but he fell out of favour with manager Pep Guardiola and is seeking game time ahead of next year’s World Cup.
Media reports said Everton, who finished last season 13th overall and are managed by David Moyes, had an option to make the move permanent for Stg 50m at the end of the loan period.
Grealish’s current weekly wages have been put at Stg 300,000 ($A620,000).
Everton said Grealish would wear the number 18, the same number worn by past club greats Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney.
“I’m over the moon to have signed for Everton. It’s massive for me, honestly. This is a great club, with great fans,” the player said in a statement.
“As soon as I spoke to the manager, I knew there was only one place that I wanted to go.”
Grealish, who had a medical on Monday and was at Everton’s training ground completing the deal on Tuesday, said he had spoken to Rooney already about a shirt number he could wear as soon as next Monday, when the Toffees start their campaign at promoted Leeds United.
The player made only seven league starts last season and was not included in City’s recent Club World Cup squad.
Grealish scored 17 goals for City in 157 appearances and was involved in three Premier League title triumphs as well as winning the 2023 Champions League, FA Cup and Club World Cup.
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He is Everton’s sixth and biggest signing of the summer with the Liverpool club ready to start afresh at a new 52,769 seat stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.
Meanwhile, Tottenham midfielder Yves Bissouma has been left out of the squad for the UEFA Super Cup against Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday for disciplinary reasons, an unhelpful distraction to manager Thomas Frank in his attempt to mark his debut with silverware.
Bissouma didn’t travel to the Italian city of Udine after being late “several times” this off-season, Frank said.
“The latest time was one too many,” he said.
The annual Super Cup match pits the winners of last season’s Champions League and Europa League competitions.
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