darrenm

All the best to him. We'll do fine without him and he'll do fine without us. I'm genuinely intrigued to see if he can keep improving and if the players at City stifle him or set him free. It's a shame NSWE weren't here a few years sooner. Probably best all round in the long run.

15 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

You might want to look at what you posted @darrenm you are definitely implying that age has an element. 

I'll admit you can read it either way. But for the sake of clarity, I'm not implying that. I'm double jabbed and I'm younger (relatively!) so I'm unlikely to get severely ill and (new clause, unrelated to age) I'm less likely to pass it on.

18 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

Why are you unlikely to pass it on?

Because being vaccinated reduces transmission.

13 minutes ago, jones1328 said:

Why would you be any less likely to pass it on because your younger? Age is completely irrelevant when your talking about your ability to pass this virus onto someone else. 18 months on and people still don't understand the basics of this pandemic. 

I didn't say less likely to pass it on because I'm younger, I said I'm double jabbed and therefore less likely to pass it on. Learn to read before making assumptions about others' understanding.

I don't wear a mask now unless the shop requests it. I haven't got anything against them but I think at some point you have to take the win and appreciate the feeling of freedom while it's on the retreat. I'm double jabbed and younger so I'm unlikely to be very ill if I get it and unlikely to pass it on. While deaths are still in the realms of probably end of line anyway people I'd like to feel some kind of normality.

14 minutes ago, SuperTed said:

Seriously, do one. No one cares. 

I do. I appreciate polite fans of other clubs.

12 minutes ago, Bazmonkey said:

when this moving to 'Other Football'

 

When it's confirmed on the OS

9 minutes ago, TheMightyVillans said:

Maybe he knows his shin issue is more serious and he won't be able to play much longer so wanted to give us a 100mill parting gift. Legend.

I think there's something in that. Not with the shins, more that we need better quality all over the pitch and I'm sure he knows he's certainly not leaving us in the shit by having 100m for him.

4 minutes ago, PieFacE said:

Interesting POV

 

 

I think it's too cheap. The point above from Matt is also correct. Which is why I think Pep sees him in the same way we do - a footballer with an old fashioned romantic style and was willing to pay a lot of money for someone with a worrying recurring injury, not much international experience and no CL experience. 

3 minutes ago, Rino8 said:

Don't worry lads, we'll be going through the same thing next year when we lose Raph 

We've got some money burning a hole  

14 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

I wasted the whole **** Euros being fuming at Southgate for not playing him FFS.

Me too  

He's still an incredible player and will now take the world by storm. If I wasn't a Villa fan I'd be really excited about seeing KDB, Foden and Grealish in the same team. They're going to destroy everyone.

We get to reshape the team so we're not relying on one person which derails our season if he's out injured.

Best wishes from me, I'd prefer to keep him but I honestly believe it'll work out best all round.

1 hour ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said:

Aston Villa v Man City last day of the season. Of course it is.

For the title?

It could well something along these lines:

City enquire about if Grealish would be open to the move on these rough terms through his agent. He indicates yes.

Agent advises Villa that City will be making a bid of around £100m and that Grealish is open to the idea of moving under the terms. The club advise that if Grealish wants to go for that money and a bid is made they'll put a new contract to him alongside City's terms and allow him to make the decision. The club think £100m is about the right value for them to build without him.

City and their journalists get word that the transfer is on because Grealish has accepted terms in principle and that the club will accept the bid if it comes in.

City make the bid, Sam Lee and others are cocksure about the formality of little old Villa lying down in front of the might of City.

Villa accept the bid in terms of value only, present new terms for Grealish to stay and allow him to make the decision.

In the meantime, the reality of the move sets in with Grealish. His family, his grandad, all the Villa supporting celebs who love him for being Mr Villa and the very real problems of empty trophies playing with world class players Vs a statue outside Villa Park. And that Villa's business is actually genuinely exciting.

Perhaps he's now actually torn and is taking time to decide.

That CJ guy has been a Leeds fan for approx 2 months from a Twitter poll. I doubt he's on the wind up from that.

He could be taking a punt at a 50/50 though.

I think everyone should start preparing themselves for the worst by looking at the potential for improving the team with the money we get. The players we're looking at would arguably make us stronger overall.

I assume the girlfriend was driving?

1 minute ago, Lord Willard said:

Death threats aren't okay for whatever reason. 

I don't think that's the point. A lie spreads faster than the truth and it seems that the modern phenomenon to quickly scramble to condemn poor actions from others results in a false narrative being set - in this case that villa fans angry about him leaving when in actuality it's nothing to do with this situation. Before you know it, it's in the Daily Mail and people will forever bring up how villa fans gave Jack's girlfriend death threats because he wanted to leave.

Feel like the official Twitter feed would only do that if they were going to post something to settle everyone soon after. So I've got it on notification now.

1 minute ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

A villa fan has posted the below on the city forum. 
 

Sounds believable to be fair.

Sounds like a Man City fan to me

The body language in that video isn't good. There's a bit of shame there because he's looking down a bit. Whether that's because he feels like he's already done wrong by going outside the Villa 'family' or if it's because he already knows he's gone is the question.

1 minute ago, Robbie09 said:

Just been sent a vid by a mate as he’s there watching Villa train. Jack comes over to have his picture taken with the kids, someone says “sign the contract Jack” and his response was “dunno about that”.

Hopefully just fun and games on Jack’s part

That's the thing. Can you imagine him doing any of this if it wasn't already decided he's staying with a bumper contract?

1 minute ago, MNVillan said:

I did my part on the night watch. Someone catch me up please.

Nothing apart from the OS Twitter posting a training vid with Jack in and some people taking vids of him training. Apparently there's a big meeting this afternoon.

3 minutes ago, zak said:

He responded to this saying he knows nothing

3 minutes ago, PaulMcGrath_5 said:

 

Honestly, I don't believe he knows nothing.

Just now, pintpotvilla said:

fact He's not going 

Can you share how you can be so sure?

I reckon there's some info going round

4 minutes ago, Tommo_b said:

What did he post, apparently he deleted a tweet as he said too much?

Just messing about. But he is well connected. If there was a bit of info going around he would know and I doubt he'd be playing around if it was bad.

41 minutes ago, tinker said:

Just heard , he's definitely  staying , happy **** days 

This needs more context

11 minutes ago, hippo said:

That picture takes on a more sinister meaning with the expression on his face and the position of his arm !!!!

1 hour ago, Tom13 said:

Stress isn't getting to him today

Where can I bet on him staying and what odds can I get? Because I guarantee from that photo he's staying.

Had time to calm down.

I'm still not convinced he won't weigh everything up and decide the feeling of being at home at Villa is too much and decide to stay.

The £100m must be a release clause. Which would make the transfer request story complete rubbish. In that case, it's purely up to NSWE/Dean to convince him of their ambitions.

But part of me thinks if the money is reinvested in the right way, we could emerge stronger. And Jack's such an incredible player, a *small* part of me wants to see just how good he would undoubtedly be when surrounded by world class players. I think he would elevate City from 'just about the best' to 'another universe' and they'd win every game 5-0.

I'd love to see that happen at Villa but our owners don't seem to be wanting to break FFP rules any time soon. So we probably aren't going to be challenging for the CL within the next 2 or 3 years.

He wouldn't get my blessing to leave but I can understand it.