The football season is back! And already we’ve seen 3 rounds of fixtures in the Premier League before the pause for the international break, and while some squads are still being worked on until the closing stages of the window, several key players have already made a strong impact on the season, and made a choice of player of the month quite difficult.

This months NextGoalWinner player of the month winner is a player who had made a move this summer that for most people looks like a perfect fit, a chance to become the star man at a team once again, and a positive environment in which to do so.

Jack Grealish has had a very successful start to his loan move to Everton which will surely end up becoming permanent after his opening showings for the club. With a new stadium, hopes of a European place charge and the star power of Grealish, the start to the season has been almost perfect and with Grealish getting 4 assists in his opening 3 league appearances for the club, he’s already hit the ground running.

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Match By Match

August 18th: Leeds United 1-0 Everton – Kicking off the season from the bench, shortly after making the loan move to Everton, Grealish couldn’t help save Everton from falling to an opening defeat of the season as they were harshly done by from the VAR call in the loss against Leeds. After many had predicted Everton for big things and expected Leeds to struggle this season, the opening day threw up one of it’s surprising results as Everton couldn’t get on the board in their opener. For Grealish, he only manager a 19 minute cameo, in which he was given a 6.0/10 FotMob rating for his efforts. The steady introduction to life at Everton, but it didn’t take him long to settle.

August 24th: Everton 2-0 Brighton & Hove Albion – After their frustrating opener, the first home game at the new stadium also saw a start for new talisman Grealish, as he assisted both goals for Everton’s win against Brighton. With his link-up play to Ndiaye for the opener, and setting up Garner for the second, Grealish’s efforts were more than enough to get Everton their first win of the season. With an 8.7/10 FotMob rating, this was a sign for Everton fans that they’ve made a great move this summer to help revitalise the star power of Grealish.

August 30th: Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-3 Everton – Rounding off the month after a Carabao Cup detour in which Everton beat Mansfield Town, the final league game saw an end-to-end away trip to Wolves, in which Everton came out victorious in large part thanks to Grealish once again. Grealish was provider for 2 more goals as he setup the 1st and 3rd goals as Everton got themselves their 2nd win in 3 games (3 in 4 across all competitions) for the month and this performance was Jack’s best of the lot. His 2 assists, winning the most duels (13), completing the most dribbles (5), drawing the most fouls (7) and 92% pass accuracy gave him a 9.1/10 FotMob rating and showed exactly what he is capable of this season.