Jack Grealish

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I would say the sale of SWP to Chelsea was almost identical

I don’t remember any city fans acting like this back then

Yeah, but we had ready made replacements in Weiss and Etuhu…

 

[crazyg]

Definitely not a 100 million player.. don't see the hype personally

Remind me. How much did Poogba cost on his return in 2016, and what has he done for the club since then to justify the fee?

 

[The Pandorica Opened]

All these things can be true.

1. Grealish is mint

2. £100m is a bit much

3. Pogba is an occasional-masterclass merchant

4. Some Villa fans have been utterly unhinged recently

5. Most of them are probably just understandably pissed off

I hold all five beliefs at once. Like squiddly-diddly.

 

[I'm Blue]

What’s up with his pads?

Apart from the fact he got them from build a bear?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Pogba wasn't worth that fee, sure. Some of the business United have done in the past 10 years has been crackers. 70 for Sancho I can't balk at. Grealish for 100 when you have better players (Bernardo, Mahrez) etc is nuts when the priority should be striker..

I’m not going to try to justify the fee for Grealish, but our owners aren’t fools. Something is going on. We‘re focusing on English players. Are they privy to new post-Brexit foreign quotas potentially coming in?

Grealish is a de Bruyne/David Silva hybrid. Silva has gone, KDB is 30. Maybe we’re bedding in their eventual “replacement”.

Kane seems likely to happen too, judging on connected journalists’ output.

Bernardo seems to want to go to Spain, so had to be replaced.

 

[Bernard20]

Definitely not a 100 million player.. don't see the hype personally

I know… we could get 2 Wan-Bissaka’s or a Maguire, with change left over, for that sort of money.

 

[Georgian Maestro]

Has KVillan been back yet?

 

[citymad]

Just imagine Phil, Grealish and Kev with Fern and Rodri behind them. What a midfield !

 

[itisrising]

Pogba wasn't worth that fee, sure. Some of the business United have done in the past 10 years has been crackers. 70 for Sancho I can't balk at. Grealish for 100 when you have better players (Bernardo, Mahrez) etc is nuts when the priority should be striker..

This version of Bernardo is not better than Grealish, they're not even close. Look at every p90 stat. I don't think City fans quite realise how good Grealish is.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

This version of Bernardo is not better than Grealish, they're not even close. Look at every p90 stat. I don't think City fans quite realise how good Grealish is.

As an 8, Bernardo is currently better. Grealish could be KDB like if he learns Pepball number 8.

 

[lastmanback]

Can't believe we are going to break our record fee for a player we don't really need. Not the most important position we need to fill ?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Can't believe we are going to break our record fee for a player we don't really need. Not the most important position we need to fill ?

Kane comes 10 days later. (According to journalists with connections to the club)

 

[chaddblue]

Can't believe we are going to break our record fee for a player we don't really need. Not the most important position we need to fill ?

But we might break it again pretty soon after

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Can't believe we are going to break our record fee for a player we don't really need. Not the most important position we need to fill ?

Bernardo is leaving. Gundogan and De Bruyne are in their 30s. I’d say it’s a problem position waiting to happen unless we put in a succession plan… enter Jack Grealish.

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Can't believe we are going to break our record fee for a player we don't really need. Not the most important position we need to fill ?

If we just get him and no one else I will maybe agree. If we get him & Kane though then it will be a very good window.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

 

[Vienna_70]

True, but not necessarily. Villa have bid on two players this summer (Smith Rowe and Ward-Prowse) without much discussion with their clubs.

And besides, given the possible existence of a release clause, there actually has been minimal discussion that Villa and City have been in communication for particularly long.

It might be an obvious element now, but this BBC article is the first major news outlet I've seen to actually say that the two clubs have been talking for a substantial amount of time.

The Evening News claims that Grealish and Villa have a "gentlemen’s agreement' that if City bid £100 million, they will not stand in his way:

The subtle hints that suggest Villa are preparing for Grealish to City transfer

Manchester City have made a £100million bid for the Aston Villa

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[RandomJ]

What's this bollocks? A deadline or Jack signs a new deal? What absolute horse shit.

 

[Bernard20]

As an 8, Bernardo is currently better. Grealish could be KDB like if he learns Pepball number 8.

I absolutely love Bernardo Silva. But, he is not better than Grealish, not by a long shot… if we get Grealish, he improves us massively! I love Silva, but more so for his industrialism. Grealish is a class apart and I’ll be over the moon if we get this one over the line.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I absolutely love Bernardo Silva. But, he is not better than Grealish, not by a long shot… if we get Grealish, he improves us massively! I love Silva, but more so for his industrialism. Grealish is a class apart and I’ll be over the moon if we get this one over the line.

I don’t disagree, but Bernardo has by far and away the better defensive discipline over Grealish.

JG will need to learn the City pressing method to play as an 8 for us.