Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[PaulWinch again]

Well yeah but that’s not really a valid comparison here though.

[Sexual Ealing]

Must we wade in our own sloppy seconds?

[AV82EC]

Must we wade in our own sloppy seconds?

Wasn’t quite the analogy I was hoping for. Bleeuurgghh.

[Beard82]

For me it’s not really about his previous choices, it’s purely about whether he’s useful to us now and offers value. I genuinely don’t know the answer to that, but that’s the only real question.

Just to be clear my comments about his previous choices isnt to do with signing him - it was to do with the fact he wasnt on the pitch at the end of the final.

I wouldn't want to resign him because we have a limited wage budget and I dont think its a risk worth taking. 

[eamonn]

He's scored 6 goals in 3 years. He's finished.

Last three seasons, Jack Grealish has scored 8 goals and provided 19 assists across all competitions

Are you sure he is finished

That reads pretty damn average. Ndiaye and Stately-Home are Everton's most dangerous players, not Grealish. He flatters to deceive and even with more carte-blanche to shoot now that Spit the Dog isn't his manager, he's utter shite at it. He has one big career contract left in him, please let it not be with us.

[PeterWithesShin]

He's scored 6 goals in 3 years. He's finished.

Last three seasons, Jack Grealish has scored 8 goals and provided 19 assists across all competitions

Are you sure he is finished

Buendia just had 11 goals and 9 assists in one season. 

[john e]

He didn’t score many goals when he was with us but city still payed 100million for him because he was brilliant

[PeterWithesShin]

He scored more goals in 19/20 than he's scored in the last 3 years. People are pining for that Grealish, not the one we'd have in 26/27.

[Dave]

If he hadn't played well for us 5 years ago no one would be talking about wanting him here.

I know this is the "no" line, but it doesn't really stand up in my opinion.

If someone at a random club with nothing to do with us, had been brilliant somewhere else, and had been so good that they'd moved for £100m five years ago, was now 30 years old and was probably available for a contribution to his wages...

...then the club that thought that a loan for Jadon Sancho last summer would be worth a punt in the absence of better options in that position, probably wouldn't rule that other guy out.

[PeterWithesShin]

There's a big difference between trying 25 year old Sancho and 30 year old Grealish.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

That's a good point in regards to the club getting him in, but I'm not sure that alters people actually 'wanting' him in. I doubt all that many people wanted Sancho.

[mallo]

Surely we can look past grealish as the answer to something - even if we’re in for an aging option. If he’s super cheap then maybe worth an option but he’s not - Barclay upgrade true

[Dave]

There's a big difference between trying 25 year old Sancho and 30 year old Grealish.

Not in the context of "we can't go out and buy a couple of £80m wingers to fill obvious gaps in our squad, so we need someone who hits a nice middle ground between ability and cost while the bean-counters rustle up a bit more revenue so we might be able to buy one £80m winger next season" there isn’t.

He'd literally be a body that might be a bit better than one of the misfiring bodies from this season.

Nobody's doing a Real Madrid-style presidential campaign on bringing back the conquering hero, but in the Harry Wilson Stakes of who can be a cheapish option to be better than Evan Guessand in twenty-odd games next season, he's a perfectly coherent name to be in the running.

[PeterWithesShin]

There is because if 25 year old Sancho had a blinder we could have a valuable asset heading into prime years on a free. 30 year Grealish even with a blinding year is a depreciating asset. Neither will be having a blinder with Villa next season though.

[KevinGage]

He's got big shoes to fill trying to replace Guessand, that's true.

Construction boots with 50p-shaped toe caps, if his performances with us were anything to go by.