Grealish was always going to go to ,City. By all means believe your own narrative if you wish.
As for any links now, one canonly hope it's house shit.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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As for any links now, one canonly hope it's house shit.
If bayern want Tel back give him back now and pay up for rest of kane cash. Dont want grealish either.
He’s talking about years back when Villa needed cash and Levy tried to lowball them, then new buyers blocked the deal (£25m was the reported asking price back then, but Levy…).
They are the 3 players we are mainly linked with and none of them would start for us! I find that depressing personally
You are talking to the premier Enic Hypebeast
We really need to be making our marquee signing in the wide forward areas this next season. Between Bergvall, Sarr, and Gray plus Maddison and Kulu we have a solid CM core already. Son is in decline and Tel imo is likely to return to Bayern.
The club, probably won't have European football next season so, signings are likely to be a mix of, youngster's on low wages and out of contract ones.
None of us should expect anything decent.
And we’ve got a hotel to build …
We have, that's the most important element of a football club.
In this case you, slash the wage bill by, bringing in youngsters who, are years away from their peak.
You then along with a tactical clown of a manager, take the ub back years, its a proven policy to fail and has.
We had the chance when Villa were relegated, I believe.
Remember £3m plus Josh Onomah. They then had the takeover and didn't need to sell
Imo we need a new midfield and quality.
Agreed. If Dibling is the marquee signing and we are willing to spend 50m+ on him then that's a major concern! We've just come to expect this sort of mediocrity.
An actual big 6 club goes and signs Bowen, Kudus, Cunha or Mbuemo. These signings sum up where the club is at. We are basically just becoming a traditional mid table team again and are no longer able to sign players from team's like West ham, Brentford, Fulham and Bournemouth because they see us as direct rivals now.
The players we are linked with just highlights how far back we've moved in the last few years. We are a long long way off being a big team. Back to signing young talent and if the Romero rumours are true, then we are basically back to being a feeder club who is happy to sell the good ones on for a profit.
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If his club gets relegated as expected, the club will spend all summer sitting on a low offer.
Then with less than a week to go, we get outbid or, the club caves in to our demand if nobody else is willing.
Financially and globally from a support perspective, we are a big club, on the pitch we are a smaller club.
Eze should be top target imo. And cunha at wolves. Think we will get that boanotte as well from brighton. We will get cardoso. Need another top midfielder as well or maybe 2. Think porro will go so a replacement for him. Romero will go to one of the madrid clubs. Did read the other day were after sporting Lisbon defender.
The agreed fee for Grealish with 'old' owner was £25m/£30m (according to all local Birmingham press) new owner completed his DD on Vila in a couple of weeks (must have avoided any lengthy verification so a very risky strategy).
Once Villa purchase completed, the new owner then cancelled the Grealish sale making the hugely risky decision that with Grealish in side Villa stood a chance of promotion to PL (worth multiple £100m - many times any sale value for Grealish), but no chance without Grealish in the side.
Huge risk, but Villa did get promoted next season, vindicating the risk - and then hit jackpot by selling Grealish for £100m or so to Man City where he's rarely impressed. Might be Grealish is better as a big fish in a small pond but does not impress in a big pond. Not a lot Levy or anyone else could do
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What really irks me is that despite the revenue from the new stadium and the huge ticket prices we pay, so much of our transfer business is still based on being opportunistic rather than buying the best player we can in whatever position.
There’s nothing wrong with looking for deals but it should only ever supplement the core business. To have any success in such a competitive league we have to be willing to spend on proven players as well as young talent. If they don’t want to come then of course we have to move on but I never get the sense that Levy is really pushing to sign Eze, Mbuemo, Guehi, Gallagher level players. It all feels reluctant and performative.
We have to get serious now because we are becoming a completely irrelevant team with this current strategy.
There’s nothing wrong with looking for deals but it should only ever supplement the core business. To have any success in such a competitive league we have to be willing to spend on proven players as well as young talent. If they don’t want to come then of course we have to move on but I never get the sense that Levy is really pushing to sign Eze, Mbuemo, Guehi, Gallagher level players. It all feels reluctant and performative.
We have to get serious now because we are becoming a completely irrelevant team with this current strategy.
I think Levy has fallen into a bit of a trap over the years.
He’s looked at the big money we’ve spent and the shit returns we’ve had, then looked at our “best” signings and come to the conclusion that young, cheaper players, or opportunistic punts are the way forward.
Put Tanguy, Sanchez, GLC, Sissoko, Bergwijn, Soldado up against Bale, Modric, Dele, Walker, Rose, Rafa VdV and you can see how he’d come to that conclusion.
Time has moved on though and we are surrounded by teams that can fish in those waters. And above us are teams who aren’t scared to make multi million mistakes. With our huge revenue, we shouldn’t be afraid either.
He’s looked at the big money we’ve spent and the shit returns we’ve had, then looked at our “best” signings and come to the conclusion that young, cheaper players, or opportunistic punts are the way forward.
Put Tanguy, Sanchez, GLC, Sissoko, Bergwijn, Soldado up against Bale, Modric, Dele, Walker, Rose, Rafa VdV and you can see how he’d come to that conclusion.
Time has moved on though and we are surrounded by teams that can fish in those waters. And above us are teams who aren’t scared to make multi million mistakes. With our huge revenue, we shouldn’t be afraid either.
