Villa had a good season last season but you're not in the same class as Liverpool, Chelsea, Man Utd or Manchester City. You have a job just to get past Arsenal and Spurs.Why do you think it's so unachievable? Leeds missed it by eight points in their first season back. West Ham had a very average team and finished two points outside.
No doubt there will be a few Villa fans in them their canals by the end of the week.
If Grealish does sign then I would say with near certainty that everything we've heard out of the Villa end the past 2 months has been pure posturing.Villa offering 200k a week apparently. I just think his agent wants Jack to move since euros his popularity has sky rocketed
So it wouldn't be a challenge coming to city and putting himself up against a lot of talent and also trying to get in the starting 11 in place of them?Lucky contracts exist then; if Villa don't want to sell then he isn't going anywhere no matter how ambitious he is. On that matter, I'd also say it is more ambitious to try and get into the Champions League with Villa and perhaps win an FA Cup than win an inevitable league title with you. Ambition means taking on a challenge, he wouldn't be doing that with you.
Happens. Deals have many factors in them, they play off against each other.Because that is what he would have cost last summer, before the new deal. How does it make sense that Villa give him a new deal when the current one has three years to run and introduce a clause that limits his value to what it was before the deal? Better to let the old deal run and sell him this summer without a release clause in that case.
You really have buried your head in the sand and you are only capable of looking at football through the prism of an Aston Villa fan. Let me spell it out for you.Why do you think it's so unachievable? Leeds missed it by eight points in their first season back. West Ham had a very average team and finished two points outside.
Because that is what he would have cost last summer, before the new deal. How does it make sense that Villa give him a new deal when the current one has three years to run and introduce a clause that limits his value to what it was before the deal? Better to let the old deal run and sell him this summer without a release clause in that case.
If you believe there is no release clause then you have nothing to worry about.Because that is what he would have cost last summer, before the new deal. How does it make sense that Villa give him a new deal when the current one has three years to run and introduce a clause that limits his value to what it was before the deal? Better to let the old deal run and sell him this summer without a release clause in that case.
Sorry bud, this is horseshit. There are no easy honours. None of our titles or Cups have remotely come easily. We've bought high quality players, but it's been grind and sheer grit that has seen us over the line. We've also had more than our fair share of injuries to key players and some infamous atrocious Ref/VAR decisions. As for you finishing fourth, it' ain't gonna happen with or without Grealish so that's a bogus comparison anyway.I think this is quite obvious isn't it? Leaving to win inevitable title after title with a super team is a lot easier than building something organic with players of lesser talent. As you lot point out incessantly, it's an awful lot harder and less likely for Villa to finish fourth than for you to win the Champions League or whatever. So why is leaving for easy honours ambitious?
City would not be interested in Grealish if they had any indication he would cost £150. If that was the case, City would have looked somewhere else a long time ago since there is no way the club would pay that for a midfielder unless we would need to replace someone like KDB. And there still seem to be a belief within City this deal could get done. This tells me 2 things:There's no contradictions in what I've said. It's difficult but not as difficult as you think it is - as shown by the fact we were on course around Christmas until Grealish got injured. But it becomes impossible if you sell your best players - hence why it's difficult to believe Sam Lee that a fee has been agreed so easily or that there is a reasonable release clause. It could end up costing you something like £150 million as that is what he is worth to us in terms of progress.
Lets get both!He’s back this week so should be fun. Wanted Kane first but will take Grealish
You're not getting through cos you're talking out of your arse, bud. Villa may have set the price at 75 mill but nobody was willing to pay anything like that last year. Ergo, his market value was well south of 75 mill. So setting the release clause well above his market value is quite logical.£75 million was the fee Man Utd would have had to pay last summer. I'm bored of not getting through with simple logic - Villa wouldn't have added a release clause that meant his value under the new deal was equal to or lower than if he had continued on the previous one until 2023.
Which is odd as he was nothing but a bit part player at the Euro'sVilla offering 200k a week apparently. I just think his agent wants Jack to move since euros his popularity has sky rocketed
Grealish only stays at Villa if he doesn't back himself to mix it with the best. His easy option is to stay at Villa with absolutely no pressure on himself.Lucky contracts exist then; if Villa don't want to sell then he isn't going anywhere no matter how ambitious he is. On that matter, I'd also say it is more ambitious to try and get into the Champions League with Villa and perhaps win an FA Cup than win an inevitable league title with you. Ambition means taking on a challenge, he wouldn't be doing that with you.
According to reports in Italy...Now it's being reported Chelsea are trying to "hijack our bid".
that's all you will be getting from us