Aston Villa were bankrupt, yet he would rather get one over on a then dying club trying to get grealish for a max 15 million than pay the asking price and get the player Poch desperatley wanted. Think Villa demanded over 30 million.
Instead it backfired spetacularly as they got new rich owners, we signed no one that summer and the club has been on a downard trend since. But eventually we did go and sign young attacking creativity in the side by spending over 80 million pounds on Ndombele and Locelso