Phil Silvers Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Just now, Mat Kendrick's Dentist said: I'm not talking about his tweets. I'm talking about his articles in The Athletic, which are accurate, and aren't click-incentivized 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Kendrick's Dentist Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 5 minutes ago, The_Steve said: Because the Athletic never, ever dabbles in clickbait or speculation. Well.......no. It's subscriber-based, so clickbait would make little sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHY Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 18 minutes ago, The_Steve said: Almost like the whole thing was manufactured to shift the betting markets on a quiet Friday. I work in the gambling industry and the betting on transfers is literally nothing. A couple of hundred pounds in bets is enough for the odds to drop significantly. Also Talksport hasn’t got any affiliation to Skybet, they are owned by different companies now and have been for years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 He’ll stay with the club as long as we are showing ambition and continual improvement. If we stagnant he’ll move on to fulfil personal objectives, and who could blame him. He won’t be leaving this summer, we improved last season and are looking like we’ll do so again with some ambitious recruitment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 My point that we don't know anything we didn't already know still stands as an excellent point, because I said we already knew that other clubs would be interested, so whether the interest is genuine or not makes no difference we already knew that other clubs would be intereted in him, the one thing we know that we didn't already is that he's in talks for a new contract as reported by John Percy the most reliable journalist on Villa news. Also not sure what make Ornstein, Sam Lee and Miguel Delaney reliable on Villa news, they won't have a clue how much we want for Grealish, or indeed how much Man City would be prepared to pay for him. That kind of information is different and specific than knowing that a player is in talks over a new contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanBalaban Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 3 minutes ago, Mat Kendrick's Dentist said: Well.......no. It's subscriber-based, so clickbait would make little sense I could be wrong, so please correct me if I am, but I've seen plenty of article saying £100m would be the offer, but I've not seen anything suggesting that we would accept it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 The £100m fiure is no more reliable than the £80m figure that was going around last summer, the media doesn't know what we'd be willing to accept or what other clubs would be willing to play, they're just made up numbers. There's a big difference between knowing something specific like that, and knowing that a player is in talks over a new contract. I actually doubt that Man City would pay £100m for Grealish more than I doubt we'd accept that sum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 6 minutes ago, StanBalaban said: I could be wrong, so please correct me if I am, but I've seen plenty of article saying £100m would be the offer, but I've not seen anything suggesting that we would accept it. Agree Stan, it's all rubbish and the tell is, the fee, I mean come on, 100m for Jack, never gonna happen. Harry overrated Maguire was 75m. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 (edited) I think Holy trinity sums it up very well....Jack is central to our project, its not as simple as a run o' the mill transfer. He is more than just a player, He is an icon and I would suspect, he will have a role at Villa way after his playing days are over.....this could be a life time career. Edited June 26, 2021 by TRO 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 26 minutes ago, Mat Kendrick's Dentist said: Reliable journalists in The Athletic (Sam Lee and David Ornstein) and The Independent (Miguel Delaney) have been saying for weeks that we'll sell for £100m and they were written off as "paper talk guff". It categorically didn't stem from spurious reports in The Sun and Talksport. On the other hand, Rob Dorsett, who has long been (unfairly) ridiculed on here, broke the news that we've offered a contract, and it was instantly accepted! People believe what they want and are burying their heads in the sand if they think this is all just paper talk. Obviously with all that said, I hope we manage to convince Jack to stick around for at least another year Have they actually said we'll sell for £100 million? I've never seen that. I've seen people report the interest but not state that villa would accept it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 The £100m figure is a media invented sum because they cannot fathom that we do not want, nor need to sell Jack. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 4 minutes ago, TRO said: I think Holy trinity sums it up very well....Jack is central to our project, its not as simple as a run o' mill transfer. He is more than just a player, He is an icon and I would suspect, he will have a role at Villa way after his playing days are over.....this could be a life time career. This is more likely then anything else, we are a pro active club now and not the reactive dinosaur that almost went extinct. Issues like this will be planned for as will many other aspects of our operation, he is the face of the club and integral to what NWSE already have in motion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolta Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 23 minutes ago, Mat Kendrick's Dentist said: Well.......no. It's subscriber-based, so clickbait would make little sense They still want people to read something though. It doesn't have to be clickbait. Newspapers were chatting shit about transfers (and other things) before the internet existed because it helped them sell their product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hong0311 Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 4 hours ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said: Just found this in my local convenience store. Jack has become the face of England. He is in fact becoming a worldwide star, as an Aston Villa player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 1 minute ago, hong0311 said: Just found this in my local convenience store. Jack has become the face of England. He is in fact becoming a worldwide star, as an Aston Villa player. Lemon tea £650, that's bad dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted June 26, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 26, 2021 (edited) There's probably only 3 people who have any idea of what type of money we'd want for Grealish, and that's NSWE and Purslow. Everything else is just completely made up imo. If Man City haven't even approached Villa yet or begun negotiations to try and sign him, how is there even a value of what it would cost to buy him out there? For all we know they might not sell him for a penny less than £150m. Edited June 26, 2021 by PieFacE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hong0311 Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 5 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said: Lemon tea £650, that's bad dude. Wait till you see a bottle of sparkling water costing 1750. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilS Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 (edited) Greg Evans says new signings told Grealish is staying The Athletic‘s Gregg Evans has dropped a major Aston Villa update on the club’s summer transfer plans, including some news on the future of Jack Grealish amid speculation linking him with Manchester City. Reports in recent days have suggested that the Premier League champions are preparing an offer for the 25-year-old after the conclusion of Euro 2020 this summer, while Dean Smith’s side have already completed the signings of Emi Buendia and Ashley Young. Evans has now delivered an update on where things stand with Villa’s work in the transfer market, even suggesting that new signings are being told of Grealish staying at the club. Two different Athletic reporters saying different things. Covering bases? Edited June 26, 2021 by NeilS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Just now, hong0311 said: Wait till you see a bottle of sparkling water costing 1750. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Gabby is very close to Jack and if he’s saying a deal could be done, and might be done this Summer then he’s probably off. I just hope we get 120m for him. Anything less and I’ll feel we’ve been had. Whatever Kane is worth, Jack is worth. He’s younger, better looking, better at football and he’s worth millions in a marketing capacity. I’ll be devastated if he leaves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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