ChicagoVillan1983

Not sad for me. This week has been a rollercoaster but somehow I’m at the point where I’m more excited than I have been in 25 years of being a serious Villa fan, and I’m resigned to Jack going. It’s so weird. What a week! Like even more excited than I was when I stayed late on a Friday night at work to see MON arrive and sign at Villa Park, or when we won the League Cup in ‘96. I think outside of MU, MC, Chelsea and Liverpool (who I even think are on a down slope), I think we can be the number 4/5 team within a year or three.

THIS is the sign of just how good our recruiting team are! It’s immense really. “Right lads - here’s the fourth highest scorer in the league (not from penalties) in the last two years. You’re welcome.” No news. We’re stealthing the market here…

I’m glad this has been a “small window” for us.

Right. When someone mentioned it 4 hours ago as a maybe I was like “no, doesn’t fit the project”. But we can’t have just a bunch of kids: “you can’t win anything with a bunch of kids”. We bought a 29 year old. There’s a dumb fella just a year younger going for 160 million who is clearly better, but not 160/30 times better! We’re getting a player that is a top 5 goal scorer over a three year period for this price at the peak of his career. Remember when 27/28 year olds got the most money on transfer fees. The more I look the more I like this one. It’s good sensible business.

Mings heads the corner down hard at the keeper, keeper saves, Ings taps it in. It’s going f’ing (get it) mental to commentate on us next season!

Then Jack says “so you don’t want to join the family party in the Maldives for Christmas then”…

After 20 washes, you can turn your Mings shirt into an Ings shirt. Double. Bubble.

Squealish, Peelish - summut like that?

Genius move by the club in terms of sweetening the Grealish shock. I am still surprised - I didn't think he would be the kind of player we went for in terms of age. But what the hell. Top 5 goalscorer over several years, 130 million less than Kane and only a year older. It's not the worst piece of business in the world!

You take a 30 minutes nap and this happened. Hold on, I'll take some sleeping tablets and Messi will in the Holte End...

Haha. Cannock for me!

All these fake fans can just do one! Let them go support a "Top 6 club". I grew up Villa, they won the European cup the year before I was born, the league the year before that. My Dad had to give up his tickets to the Super Cup Final in '83 because I was being born... I've seen two League Cups and an Intertoto Cup. Not a lot, still here Villa Til I Die. Went to Uni in Manchester. Still VTID. Lived in London for 5 years. Still VTID Moved to the US 10 years ago. Still VTID. Paid to watch them on really awful feeds in the US while playing in the Championship. Still VTID. The ride is what I am here for. Perhaps when they were chanting "Villa Til I Die" they meant "Villa Til We Sell Jack". They don't deserve to be Villa fans!

No but his agent was when Jack said “I’m turning down 10 million extra a year in wages, image rights and sponsorship to stay at Villa”. Then spent the next month convincing him to go…

Jeez - lighten up. Totally different situation now!!! Time for our fans to stand up and show if we are real or plastic.

Would be bang up if the club said they’d replace and 2021/ 2022 Grealish shirts for free.

But you agree that 1 step forward is better than the 2 steps back, 1 step back of the last decade, right???

*Lamborghineh

I just can’t believe that someone on the internet would lie and troll us so badly. Who knew CJ Golson wasn’t real! My faith in everything is shot. What happened to simple human decency. Capping it off with Bamford - no shame!

He’s a VERY NAUGHTY BOY

I posted this on Reddit. Sharing as it’s relevant… ///// Keep It Classy, Lads So if all the news today is true, Jack is off. We don’t want people at our club that don’t want to be here - plain and simple. It’s all great to chat about holding him to his contract, but if his head is out of the door let’s take the money and run. I’m not going to say stupid things like “he wasn’t even our best player” or even wish him any bad luck at all. Good luck, Jack. Thanks for the service and thanks for signing that contract last year that allowed us to extract maximum value for you. Now kindly hurry up and get this done so we can focus on spending the cash on your replacements. The thing is, this club has suffered far worse hardships than losing Grealish. Do you remember how close we were to bankruptcy only a few years ago? We have some of the best owners in the league and our project is still on the way up. We’re going to be playing fun and exciting football next year, and there’s still 2-3 bodies to come through the door. We will finally have a SQUAD and not just a first 11, and that’s what wins things. So let’s not act like we’re a small time club and that this is the end of the world. Let’s not troll City fans, or wish any harm to Jack. It’s juvenile at best to turn this to anger and hate. Instead let’s focus on our new heroes. Buendia/ Bailey - you’re up, dudes. Show us the fight and what you are worth. Ollie, OG Emi, Ty, SJM, help the rest of the team through this and continue to write your story to become Villa legends! We’re Aston Villa, European Champions, League Winners, FA Cup Winners, League Cup Winners. Our future is safe and secure and there’s more glory in our future. UTV!

No Young does fit completely. No fee, seeing out his last good years on a reasonable contract. Totally different to spunking 50 million on a player that will have close to zero residual value at the end of his contract.

Ings doesn’t fit what we are going for.

Oh well. These things happen. Can the next Villa hero please stand up, please stand up? I think this car crash thread the last few days has allowed me to accept this graciously. Good luck Jack. Now **** off quickly so we can focus on the future of AVFC. UTV!

I know it hasn’t been announced on the official channel, but I have this sneaky ITK feeling Bailey is going to be announced by the club tomorrow. Does that get me Tier 0?

“I’ll sign for you if you sign 25 of my mates to the Academy” vibes