beachboys1 Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 championship quality oh its smith 1 minute ago, Wainy316 said: I find the idea of both Sarr and Cantwell very meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 1 minute ago, Farlz said: Very weird wording. Up front, as in all 100m at once? Or the payment eventually adding up to 100m and not including any add-ons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 If he does go Pep’s going to really make him a world star. You can’t begrudge the kid that. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie09 Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Wainy316 said: Where’s JonesyVilla gone? I miss his insight He’s busy posting crap on other sites Edited July 30, 2021 by Robbie09 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 1 minute ago, Keyblade said: Very weird wording. Up front, as in all 100m at once? Or the payment eventually adding up to 100m and not including any add-ons. I took it as all at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston_Villan4 Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 1 minute ago, Keyblade said: Very weird wording. Up front, as in all 100m at once? Or the payment eventually adding up to 100m and not including any add-ons. I took it to mean just a straight up 100m without add-ons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted July 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 30, 2021 Can anyone tl;dr what Percy updated his article with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 I think fans that think we bend over and lose best players too easily are missing the point. Grealish is a special talent and needs to be playing at the highest level. United the richest club in the world at the time had to sell Ronaldo to Real. These things happen. What’s more important is how we reinvest that money. We really have to spend every penny on top of what we already had planned to spend to build a solid squad. Spurs lost Bale and then built a top 6 squad. We need to do the same. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chine Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 9 minutes ago, Farlz said: Percy has updated his article - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/07/30/exclusive-manchester-city-make-jack-grealish-transfer-bid-100million/?utm_content=football&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1627680755-1 Wounded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston_Villan4 Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Just now, PieFacE said: Can anyone tl;dr what Percy updated his article with? Farlz posted it last page. Just that Grealish is supposedly set to have a medical next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Just now, PieFacE said: Can anyone tl;dr what Percy updated his article with? Medical expected next week. I know he's one of the better journos - but think he's guessing here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 1 minute ago, PieFacE said: Can anyone tl;dr what Percy updated his article with? I've posted it in the new Ismaila Sarr thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinRichardsonsMoustache Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 1 minute ago, JoshVilla said: I don't buy all this "imagine him under Pep" nonsense. Seeing the "tactical masterclasses" he supposed gave when watching the All or Nothing series, he honestly said nothing that you wouldn't hear your average Sunday League manager say. Money. Lots of it. Hard agree. If you think you manager is god, you’ll run through walls for him. Pep understands this: hence the cultivated image and the ‘access’ given to film crews and chosen writers when he was at Bayern. Problem for us isn’t the truth behind the myth of Pep (reality is he’s a mixture of a good coach, an even better image producer, and takes jobs with £££ available). Our problem is if Jack believes it. Up to now, Jack hasn’t shown himself to be a brainbox and probably buys the hype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 1 minute ago, Aston_Villan4 said: I took it to mean just a straight up 100m without add-ons. That would be insane though wouldn't it? Clubs don't even do 30m deals all up front let alone 100m. I think it's just typical Sun weasel words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinRichardsonsMoustache Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 That £100m up front really makes a mockery of ffp doesn’t it? Wasn’t the point of spreading payments about spreading ffp risk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted July 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 30, 2021 The one journo I would trust to provide accurate info is Percy. Sounds like this is all done, sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 (edited) New bits specifically on Jack from Percys article below. Basically says he's gone. The bit about the new contract was in the old version of the article. A move in the next few days impending, medical next week. Negotiations expected to be quick. ****. Ouch this hurts. Quote It is understood that City may allow Bernardo Silva, the Portugal international, to leave the club as a result of Grealish's impending arrival. Manchester City, Villa and Grealish's agent were all contacted on Friday and declined to comment on the record-breaking offer. With Grealish now expected to undergo a medical early next week, this development was always an unwelcome scenario for Villa's ambitious owners Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens, who are targeting a return to European football with the club's best player at the forefront. Villa have offered Grealish a new contract which will vastly improve his current terms of around £125,000 a week and have based their summer transfer activity on keeping their talismanic skipper. But with City experiencing frustration in their attempts to sign Tottenham forward Harry Kane, Grealish has now emerged as their No. 1 target and negotiations are likely to be concluded swiftly. Edited July 30, 2021 by HalfTimePost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted July 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted July 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, beachboys1 said: championship quality oh its smith Who do you think who’s top quality would join us if Grealish goes? Plus if you believe that we’ve been selling our ambition to prospective targets based on him staying, we will have already effectively lied to Buendia to get him here. Wonder if he’s ‘bought into’ our plan now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Just now, KevinRichardsonsMoustache said: That £100m up front really makes a mockery of ffp doesn’t it? Wasn’t the point of spreading payments about spreading ffp risk? Depends. What was their revenue last season? Plus they already have 90m incoming with sales. They spent big before FFP and now can keep selling to buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, hippo said: Medical expected next week. I know he's one of the better journos - but think he's guessing here. Don’t we normally take Percy’s word as gospel, or is that only when it is news we want to hear? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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