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That's interesting. Thank you.Then transfermarkt clearly didn't watch any Villa games.
As per many previous posts in this thread from the likes of @Luka Van der Bale and me, Villa played a 4-1-4-1 for the second half of the season, with Jedinak or Whelan as the DM, and Grealish and Hourihane as the CMs.
As Grealish is head and shoulders Villa's most talented player, their attacks flowed through him. But he was a creative CM, not the 10 that we know from his younger days.
Grealish can play as a 10, and will probably be the Eriksen understudy for us. But he proved last season he can play deeper, and I suspect Poch has plans to try to develop him into an English Dembele, as he once nearly tried with a player with a similar skillset in Ross Barkley.
In which case I don't fully understand whether we are buying him
a) to replace dembele
b) to understudy eriksen
c) because he's cheap and villa need funds pronto