I believe Herc is on record saying we believe up to around 25 will seal the deal. If true we have only bid 15 then it's possibly Levy doing a Levy and seeing what happens. Herc also said if they agreed the fee would go undisclosed. If SSN have it I imagine most likely the fee amount was being leaked for negotiations, hopeful bidding, or frustration.Hopefully we don’t go much above this
Villa - "We want £30m for Grealish"
Levy - "Here's £15m is that okay?"
Good god.. Classic Levy.
Villa or his agent. Both gain from an auction. The fans must be acutely aware of their perilous financial predicament.Wonder why this has leaked. Villa trying to start an auction? Or making a fee in the £20-25m mark more palatable to the fans?
Lyall has posted his piece which includes information clearly taken from the teamTalk article and from The Express and Star's report on the Villa boardroom meeting. So make of that what you will...I fail to believe Sky would get something wrong.
He has done NOTHING of note in English football, and scored goals and gotten assists in a league that made Janssen (amongst others) look a world beater. Check the other scorers and assist leaders in Holland...It's a veritable who's who of players you've hardly ever heard of...if at all.
Sorry, but there are many posters like you who seem to put some sort of positive bias on a player dependant on how young and/or foreign they are.
Wasn't it hinted that we had agreed a fee already?
Villa or his agent. Both gain from an auction. The fans must be acutely aware of their perilous financial predicament.
Yep, in this instance we hold the cards.
We know Villa are up to their eyeballs in debt and have to sell best players. They can want 30m all they like but there's no chance that Levy, of all people, would come in and just offer their asking price. No way.
We'll likely agree at something around 20m I expect.
It doesn't matter how bad the situation is, their fans won't accept losing their best player for £15m.