Jack Grealish

[wrd]

We don't "literally" have two options.

First team options yes, we have Sissoko and Eriksen. Wanyama is injured, Dembele and Dier are not fit. You're being pedantic on text but my point stands we are pretty desperate for options in that area.

 

[AJW]

Don’t know if anyone else has been sad enough to watch the Villa game at the moment but he is fluctuating between a CM and CAM role. Very good technically but must be hard being surrounded by average players. Seems to struggle at times to choose the best option. Would be a lot to work with if he signed. Clearly too good for the championship

 

[dtxspurs]

So you'd say that only having Eriksen and Sissoko as options for midfield will suffice for opening game?

You expecting Grealish to jump in and start in the prem his first game coming from the championship?

 

[wrd]

You expecting Grealish to jump in and start in the prem his first game coming from the championship?

Well my point was more that him coming in earlier and getting to grips with the team with a couple of pre-season games would give us an option in an area we are in short supply. If Sissoko or Eriksen get injured we are pretty screwed atm.

 

[tiger666]

Well my point was more that him coming in earlier and getting to grips with the team with a couple of pre-season games would give us an option in an area we are in short supply. If Sissoko or Eriksen get injured we are pretty screwed atm.

Dele?

 

[wrd]

Dele?

I feel like we are stretching here all I was saying is it would be beneficial to sign a midfielder because we are short in that area and to have the option. I think it's a valid point to not expect anybody from the world cup to be able to come in right away and at the very least, Grealish has a few pre-season games under his belt.

 

[daryl hannah]

Well my point was more that him coming in earlier and getting to grips with the team with a couple of pre-season games would give us an option in an area we are in short supply. If Sissoko or Eriksen get injured we are pretty screwed atm.

Dele?

TOB & Amos?

 

[AJW]

What you would expect Bruce to say and sure he would still leave but I really don’t think we will be getting him remotely on the cheap. They will want at least 30 based on other transfers

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

I know there's a rich irony in me posting this, but I really don't care about this signing either way. It's like being chronically constipated yet only being able to shit a single pea each day

 

[banndervaart]

"If the 22-year-old wants to leave and Tottenham submit a bid of £25million or more, Villa may respect his wishes to move on."

From an article covering quotes from Steve Bruce's press conference today in the Birmingham Mail

 

[Anurag Jo]

This has dragged on quite a bit. Still think he'll be ours come the end of the window.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

This is quite reminiscent of the Nkoudou transfer - meant to be close all summer but then happens on deadline day.

 

[Univarn]

This is quite reminiscent of the Nkoudou transfer - meant to be close all summer but then happens on deadline day.

Except that summer we had Nkoudou locked away in a hotel while we gaslighted Njie into returning to France instead of staying in PL where he wanted to be.

 

[Lilbaz]

QPR have just lost their court case saying that championship ffp was unlawful. They have settled and will pay £42m. Might kill any hope that villa had of getting around ffp and hopefully bring their demands down.

 

[JB_Spurs]

Here we go

 

[AJW]

Mirror saying his exit has been blocked and he has been told

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Loooool

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/jack-grealish-transfer-blow-penny-12995559

Jack Grealish transfer: Blow for penny-pinching Tottenham as Aston Villa's new owners BLOCK summer exit

EXCLUSIVE: Gamble on driving down financially-stricken club's asking price fails after billionaire completes swift takeover

Spurs' dithering over Jack Grealish’s £20million transfer from Aston Villa has backfired.

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has come a cropper after his waiting game for the former England Under-21 international midfielder has blown up in his face.

Levy gambled on driving down the sale price due to Villa’s financial woes — only for a staggering five-day sale of the Championship club late last week to turn the process on its head. And now those new owners have blocked Grealish’s exit.

Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawaris and American Wes Edens have a combined wealth of £40billion, making them the third richest owners in English football.

They immediately pumped in cash to prevent Villa from falling into administration — and now they’ve told Grealish he’s going nowhere.

That will come as a major blow to Spurs, who had put in plenty of groundwork convincing the playmaker that his future lay at the new White Hart Lane.

A Villa source said: “Spurs could have pushed the button on this two weeks ago before the takeover. They didn’t. And now the owners have said that neither he, nor James Chester is going anywhere.

“They want to build Villa. That’s not going to happen by selling the club’s best players.”

Manager Steve Bruce was given the news at a meeting with his new bosses earlier this week.

Bruce has also had his own position confirmed amid a financial landscape that has changed dramatically within just one week.

Levy’s gamble was understandable.

Unless the takeover had taken place, Villa may well have hit a financial brick wall this week.

They has been asking £15m plus add-ons for Grealish, taking the total deal over £20m. Levy bet on them slipping deeper into trouble — and instead the opposite happened.

The odds were, however, in Spurs’ favour as Villa were staring down a barrel. Money was owed to West Brom in the form of the final £2m instalment on Wales defender Chester’s 2016 transfer, and a £4m payroll run plus cash for revenue and customs over a tax bill – also believed to be £4m – would have pushed them over the edge.

But, after an army of solicitors worked flat-out around the clock over a five-day period, the purchase of the club was pushed through in double-quick time, saving Villa — and preventing them from having to cash in on Grealish, their most valuable asset.

It remains to be seen how far the new owners will now back their manager as Financial Fair Play is still understood to be an issue.

Bruce has already lost six loan players since the end of the last campaign, including the likes of Robert Snodgrass and Lewis Grabban, while John Terry left as his one-year contract had expired and the club could not afford a new deal.

With the new campaign starting next weekend and the transfer window closing in less than two weeks, the Geordie needs help if he is to mount a sustainable promotion push and return Villa to the big-time this season after losing May's play-off final to Fulham.

 

[Hengy1]

Should be looking at better anyway

 

[King of Otters]

Never learns does he. Fucking joke if true.

 

[Univarn]

Loooool

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/jack-grealish-transfer-blow-penny-12995559

Jack Grealish transfer: Blow for penny-pinching Tottenham as Aston Villa's new owners BLOCK summer exit

EXCLUSIVE: Gamble on driving down financially-stricken club's asking price fails after billionaire completes swift takeover

Spurs' dithering over Jack Grealish’s £20million transfer from Aston Villa has backfired.

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has come a cropper after his waiting game for the former England Under-21 international midfielder has blown up in his face.

Levy gambled on driving down the sale price due to Villa’s financial woes — only for a staggering five-day sale of the Championship club late last week to turn the process on its head. And now those new owners have blocked Grealish’s exit.

Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawaris and American Wes Edens have a combined wealth of £40billion, making them the third richest owners in English football.

They immediately pumped in cash to prevent Villa from falling into administration — and now they’ve told Grealish he’s going nowhere.

That will come as a major blow to Spurs, who had put in plenty of groundwork convincing the playmaker that his future lay at the new White Hart Lane.

A Villa source said: “Spurs could have pushed the button on this two weeks ago before the takeover. They didn’t. And now the owners have said that neither he, nor James Chester is going anywhere.

“They want to build Villa. That’s not going to happen by selling the club’s best players.”

Manager Steve Bruce was given the news at a meeting with his new bosses earlier this week.

Bruce has also had his own position confirmed amid a financial landscape that has changed dramatically within just one week.

Levy’s gamble was understandable.

Unless the takeover had taken place, Villa may well have hit a financial brick wall this week.

They has been asking £15m plus add-ons for Grealish, taking the total deal over £20m. Levy bet on them slipping deeper into trouble — and instead the opposite happened.

The odds were, however, in Spurs’ favour as Villa were staring down a barrel. Money was owed to West Brom in the form of the final £2m instalment on Wales defender Chester’s 2016 transfer, and a £4m payroll run plus cash for revenue and customs over a tax bill – also believed to be £4m – would have pushed them over the edge.

But, after an army of solicitors worked flat-out around the clock over a five-day period, the purchase of the club was pushed through in double-quick time, saving Villa — and preventing them from having to cash in on Grealish, their most valuable asset.

It remains to be seen how far the new owners will now back their manager as Financial Fair Play is still understood to be an issue.

Bruce has already lost six loan players since the end of the last campaign, including the likes of Robert Snodgrass and Lewis Grabban, while John Terry left as his one-year contract had expired and the club could not afford a new deal.

With the new campaign starting next weekend and the transfer window closing in less than two weeks, the Geordie needs help if he is to mount a sustainable promotion push and return Villa to the big-time this season after losing May's play-off final to Fulham.

Personally: *shrug*

That said Neil Moxley has been firing a lot of blanks this summer. Having actual quotes is interesting depending on who they are from.