Well that’s put a bomb under the transfer market

 

Will it be Qatar or UAE that blow a hole the size of a small city in the FFP rules

£100m is a great piece of business, you've robbed City blind with that price. No way is he worth a British transfer record.

 

To think Spurs almost signed him for peanuts 3 years ago I think!

It is indeed a great piece of business from Villa. The first British £100m player who would have thought it would be Grealish.

 

 

£100m is a great piece of business, you've robbed City blind with that price. No way is he worth a British transfer record.

 

To think Spurs almost signed him for peanuts 3 years ago I think!

 

Daylight robbery. 2 years ago Spurs offered us £3M + Josh Onomah!

 

No way is he worth £100M. £60M at a push perhaps, but £100M to us. They’ve definitely probably earned his money back already through “sponsorships” or whatever so I don’t really think they’ll care. Plus they’ve got a bunch of new teenage girl fans from it too. I really still struggle to see how he’ll fit into their setup, but I guess they’ll make it work somehow

There’s always the “white British boy” surcharge too so that’s added a good 15m to an already ridiculously over inflated price tag.

 

 

He’s been a big fish in a puddle. Mans away to be a tadpole in the pacific. Let’s see how it goes. Given the state of his twitter feed he’s got some deleting to do if they want people to believe this is the Manchester club he’s “always dreamed of joining”. More like this is the money he’s always dreamed of making

Daylight robbery. 2 years ago Spurs offered us £3M + Josh Onomah!

 

No way is he worth £100M. £60M at a push perhaps, but £100M to us. They’ve definitely probably earned his money back already through “sponsorships” or whatever so I don’t really think they’ll care. Plus they’ve got a bunch of new teenage girl fans from it too. I really still struggle to see how he’ll fit into their setup, but I guess they’ll make it work somehow

I can't help wondering whether part of it is about keeping Grealish away from rivals. It doesn't matter whether he actually plays regularly - the advantage to City is that he can't play for anyone else.

 

Back in the 1970s and into the '80s, that's what Liverpool used to do. They'd buy a promising young player but he'd spend the first year or two mostly in the reserves. The prospect of winning trophies after a couple years was enough to get them to move. Liverpool also gained by having replacements in the wings for players nearing retirement.

 

Grealish will be a big loss to Villa but they can console themselves by looking at the £100m. I'm sure many Villa fans will be upset but they have to bear in mind that he could have left when they were last relegated. He was the only decent player in what was otherwise a very poor side that season. He could easily have gone then, either straight into the starting line-up of a mid-table PL team or to a bigger team, possibly going out on loan for the first year or two. However, he stayed at Villa and helped them get back up. By then, he was still their best player but in a much better side.

This Jack Grealish transfer just shows how little loyalty there is in football. He claimed to be Aston Villa through and through and said that he grew up supporting and loving Aston Villa and now he's left just because some oil money has been waved in his face. I will be shocked if he doesn't get booed by the Villa fans when City go to Villa Park to play Aston Villa.

This Jack Grealish transfer just shows how little loyalty there is in football. He claimed to be Aston Villa through and through and said that he grew up supporting and loving Aston Villa and now he's left just because some oil money has been waved in his face. I will be shocked if he doesn't get booed by the Villa fans when City go to Villa Park to play Aston Villa.

I wonder how many of those Villa fans will have spent their whole working life with the same employer.

I know but it’s not as if you grow up supporting Tesco and saying you’ll die for the badge only to go to waitrose coz they’ll give you an extra 15p an hr.

Bu8t you can hardly blame a player for wanting to play in the Champions League. Grealish was unlikely to achieve that at Villa.

Bu8t you can hardly blame a player for wanting to play in the Champions League. Grealish was unlikely to achieve that at Villa.

One thing which we can't blame him for is leaving for trophies, but in this case he's put his own personal achievement above what he could get at club level. While yes it's highly unlikely that Villa will be in Champions League spots within the next few years, he still had opportunity to lift Villa back into European places. He was a phenomenal player for us, and could've become a true club legend. We'll never forget everything that he did for us, but in this case he chose a pay cheque and an easy path to trophies over club loyalty and vowing to stick with his promises.

 

Yet again, I don't blame him for doing so, but he could've achieved so much for his club. One trophy with Villa would be worth 10 with City to him, or I thought it would anyway.

I’m finding the Grealish discourse in here a bit weird. He’s a massive improvement on Bernardo Silva who’ll they’ll make a lot of the £100 million back from when he’s sold.

 

And calling him disloyal seems a bit harsh. It’s not like he was demanding the move and kicking up a fuss like Kane. Villa accepted the bid that matched his release clause so he left. He’s made them £100 million, he’s hardly left them short.

Bu8t you can hardly blame a player for wanting to play in the Champions League. Grealish was unlikely to achieve that at Villa.

Nah I can’t deny that but there’s no way any of the press release is true. Man has evidence of backing United over City going back to 2012. It’s all about money but he’s not exactly the first player to walk that path

Matt Le Tissier one of the best players in English football history spent his entire career at Southampton and didn't win any trophies but still stayed anyway from the youth team right up until near retirement. Alan Shearer the all-time record goalscorer in the Premier League stayed at Newcastle his boyhood club once he had joined them all the way until he retired and he turned down the chance to join Man United and win almost every trophy you can think of. That is the type of loyalty to a club that you don't see often these days. Whether it's money or trophies most players are just thinking about themselves rather than the club that they play for.

 

The only thing I would add is that Grealish spent his whole career at Villa since he was like 8 so fair f***s to him for one getting them a huge fee which is why he signed the contract and two thinking of himself once so he can win trophies for a few years of his career as he turns 26 in September.

Should Messi go to PSG or hold out for another offer, and could any premier league teams afford him?

Should Messi go to PSG or hold out for another offer, and could any premier league teams afford him?

 

I think only realistically, PSG could afford him. City have too much invested/interest in Kane/Grealish. He's a fantastic player but there's also a reason why so many of Barcelona's recent signings have struggled! PSG's attack looks devestating on paper, but Mbappe is off next summer on a free to Real Madrid most likely.

Two many queens to argue at PSG now!

Southampton have accepted an offer from Leicester for centre-back Jannick Vestergaard.

Abraham to Roma for £34m looking a real possibility with the impending return of Lukaku for Chelski.

Chelsea have completed a club-record £97.5million deal to sign striker Romelu Lukaku from Inter Milan.