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I'm not sure what £20m could have gotten us, but we were supposedly willing to pay 70 odd for De Jong, so I think the money was there if we could have found the player that Levy felt was value for money.Whether you, me or anyone else thinks Grealish was/is good enough is neither here nor there - the club were set to bring him in prior to the takeover at Villa. But it does show the sort of money we had available for a CM - £20-25m - and also the sort of thing we were looking for. We could have got Torreira for that (correct me if I'm wrong), but he's not really the same sort of player. We also had info (from @Hercules I believe) that Poch knew he wanted to use Sissoko in CM having previously deployed him in the AM3.
Don't get me wrong, I think we need a new CM as well, but what we as fans want appears to be out of the club's price range at the moment, for pretty obvious reasons.
Regardless, you said we didn't need to get a sign one last Jan, when we've needed to sign midifielders for a while now. We haven't bought a single midfielder whose strength is passing or keeping the ball since Poch took over, which is worrying.