Jack Grealish is off to a stunning start to his loan season with Everton, and it's something that the entire league is paying attention to. So much so that the winger was named the Premier League Player of the Month for August, and on his thirtieth birthday no less.
Everton made it all the more special by having his teammate, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, surprise him on video, ostensibly under the guise of a birthday-themed message, only for KDH to hand a clearly surprised Grealish the award.
🎁🏆 A deserved surprise on birthday week for @JackGrealish…@PremierLeague
— Everton (@Everton) September 12, 2025
The award was well deserved, as Grealish racked up four assists in his last two Premier League matches, starting against Brighton and Wolves, after a cameo appearance to start his Everton career away to Leeds on Matchday 1. He's shown the kind of creativity he was known for before his much heralded move to Manchester City.
The England international's rough move to City from Aston Villa a few years ago has been well documented, and his fall from being a top player in the league to someone who was assumed to be well past it was a topic of conversation was Everton made the move to bring him in on loan for this season.
And yet Grealish has fit right into David Moyes' squad, providing a lift for the entire team, as he's been instrumental in re-shaping the Everton attack into something more potent than most Everton supporters have seen in quite a few years.
Grealish is the 10th Everton player to receive this award since its inception, and it's the first time a Toffee has been awarded the trophy since Dominic Calvert-Lewin in September 2020, a season played in empty stadiums due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Before DCL, Romelu Lukaku won the award in March of 2017.
David Moyes was also nominated for Manager of the Month in August, but lost to a manager who is basically doing what is expected of him, rather than someone who is leading his team to a good start when it wasn't the normal line of thinking.
Moyes will hopefully have plenty of chances to take that award, provided that Everton remain on a good run of form that has characterized the season so far.
Everton and its new star will look to continue the good run of form with Grealish's boyhood club coming to the Hill Dickinson on Saturday, and there's little doubt that the winger will have a point to prove against his former club.