I also read somewhere that Grealishs' great great grandfather was a FA Cup winner with Villa in about 1905. Trophies are in his blood!
Sun are saying Onomah will re-join Villa on loan as part of the Grealish deal. Decent move for him, would’ve been a chance to establish himself for this season but being injured for all pre-season will have done him no favours and so I can’t imagine he’s moved himself up in the pecking order yet. Will have the chance to potentially be Villa’s main man now Grealish won’t be there.
Villa are supposedly chasing Mcginn from Hibs who is likely to be Grealish's replacement. Only 23 and had an impressive campaign last year. Although the fact that the SPL makes Brendan Rodgers look impressive makes that a very subjective definition of the word.
The Standard's getting our hopes up by saying we're looking to bring in four players by the deadline, namely Grealish, a centre back, a defensive midfielder, and a striker ...and, right on cue, we get linked to Genk's 20-year old Norwegian defensive midfielder/brick ****house Sander Berge, which I'm sure is going to have the people convinced we should only sign Barcelona players happy.
I am sure that it was reported that Mane chose Liverpool ahead of us because they offered him significantly more money
Mane said he wanted the wages he was earning at Southampton trebled, which would mean his initial contract would've been £120k p/w - so not only would he not have been within budget, he's obviously a mercenary dickhead.
Every source on google is showing mane as 90k a week. It's just Levys general policy not to give high wages to new players as thats the business model. It was more a point to say there are good players out there at "reasonable" wages and not over inflated transfer fees.
This is another classic case of a Levy poker hand going disastrously wrong. He was naively holding out on bidding due to their financial troubles, along comes fresh investment and we make a derisory opening bid as if nothing had changed (probably in the region of £15m) and were swiftly forced up to £25m which they can also reject out of hand because there is no longer a pressure to sell. As per usual, had we bid £20m in the first week of June, he would probably be a spurs player by now. But we pissed about to get him on the cheap. Levy's brinkmanship is ruining us on the pitch.
And now whoever we contact to sign a CM will have us over a barrel knowing that we - as usual - bet the house on a single hand. Signings like Sissoko don't happen by accident. They are the inevitable by-product of systemic shortcomings in our entire strategy and patterns of mistakes repeated every season. I won't go so far as to say 'Levy out' but he MUST find a DOF who isn't Commoli or Baldini and stay the **** away from transfers.
He’s got talent granted but each time he’s played for AV against us he spends more time on the grass complaining he’s been fouled and whinging to the ref. But someone on your board says AV aren’t selling him to anyone
Your argument falls apart because you ignore the fact that Spurs are easily the most successful club in the transfer market by miles and miles.
WE would just not have the squad we have following your tactics. Meekly offering top prices for players is not negotiating and in Spurs situation not possible. Only clubs like City and Madrid can adopt this modus operandi and get away with it. Your arguments are based on poor transfer results and ignoring the successful ones like most of our first team squad. WE can all list disappointing transfers but we can also list the squad we have. One of the the best in the PL and no debt.
