Havertz was low 70s. Man Utd got cold feet over paying £70 million for Grealish last summer. Chelsea have never approached a £100m fee, nor have Arsenal or Liverpool.
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Jack Grealish
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It isn't about money for us regarding Jack. It is about the ethics and values of modern football. The whole of the football world should speak out on this deal, it is akin to the Super League conception.
Well that's enough VillaTalk for the day. Apparently this goes beyond a football transfer and it's about the "ethics and values of modern football." What a strange bunch.
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Isn't it five? Di Maria is always forgotten / ignored. Wasn't that £71m?
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We haven't spent anywhere near £100m. In fact we're £35m below that so why should we pay £100m now unless the player was really special? By the way, if/when Grealish signs will he suddenly morph into being shit/ not worth it/ a diving cnut?
and unlike our players he actually gets the fouls. The number of times D Silva, Aguero or KDB have been fouled and them not given is frustrating. Maybe now we will have the set pieces we deserveRespectfully, you have no idea what you're on about. The way Villa play, he is the main out ball for them. He has to carry them up the pitch because the other midfielders aren't nearly as capable. It's called taking responsibility, he wins fouls in that process and helps Villa catch a breather. And he wins them rightfully.
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ofcourse they could. I could see United and Chelsea spending 100m easily. Might be wrong but wasn’t havertz 89m and pogba 90m? - not that far off
United spent over £130 million on Poobag (£93 million up front fee, circa £30 million agent fees, plus add-ons, legal fees and taxes).
The media generally describe it as £90 million or thereabouts but the true figure was likely north of £135 million . . . and that was about 5 years ago iirc.
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Anyway, better things to do right now than listen to Villa fans on our forum talking shit.
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.I know how the market works thank you. You have a price, City have a price. City will not go above our valuation. That is the stance of the clubs.
For a player it is different. Either he wants to win things or he doesn't. Which category is Jack in? If he wants to win things he leaves Villa behind. Simples.
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We can see right through you...Sorry for being a pane.
The Reddit ITK seems to have got a lot right here’s someone’s reply to the thread
“Nah, the only one he's really got wrong was Alves, and that's hard to blame him for since the contract was ready to be signed and everything. Other than that he's mentioned our interest in players like Jorginho, Sanchez, Pogba, Mbappe, Fabinho and Dembele, but he never said anything beyond us being interested, and even mentioned when we dropped our interest in some of them. With Jorginho and Sanchez it was widely reported that those transfers fell through right at the finish line, and there's little doubt we were genuinely interested in Pogba and Mbappe as well.
Compare that to the list of players he got right, which include Sagna, Mangala, Sterling, De Bruyne, Delph, Otamendi, Stones, Sané, Mahrez and Dias. With some of these he was way ahead of the pack, Otamendi was a real headscratcher since everyone thought he was going to United at the time. He also got some smaller things right, like Lampard's controversial extension, and the Everton game being called off because of COVID cases in the squad.”
“Nah, the only one he's really got wrong was Alves, and that's hard to blame him for since the contract was ready to be signed and everything. Other than that he's mentioned our interest in players like Jorginho, Sanchez, Pogba, Mbappe, Fabinho and Dembele, but he never said anything beyond us being interested, and even mentioned when we dropped our interest in some of them. With Jorginho and Sanchez it was widely reported that those transfers fell through right at the finish line, and there's little doubt we were genuinely interested in Pogba and Mbappe as well.
Compare that to the list of players he got right, which include Sagna, Mangala, Sterling, De Bruyne, Delph, Otamendi, Stones, Sané, Mahrez and Dias. With some of these he was way ahead of the pack, Otamendi was a real headscratcher since everyone thought he was going to United at the time. He also got some smaller things right, like Lampard's controversial extension, and the Everton game being called off because of COVID cases in the squad.”
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