no. I’d say we only move onto Grealish if sancho doesn’t come off.
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I would agree that Ole may have been told that for transfers (other than Sancho) to happen with player sales. Its also worth remembering that Ole said that Bruno Fernandes was actually a Summer signing that was brought forward to January and would have an impact on this windows budget. If that is the case then selling a bunch our "lesser" players to raise funds is likely. There doesn't seem to be much talk of players leaving however.
If the hypothetical choice is between blowing our whole budget on Jadon Sancho or bringing in Grealish at a lower cost, leaving some funds to booster the squad in another position then I'd go for the latter. (E.g Sancho or Grealish + a cheaper CB or RW prospect.)
I know I'll probably be laughed out of the thread for stating that, but I seem to rate Grealish higher than most and also think he's a more versatile player.
He's Premiership proven, has swagger, high, high football intelligence, can score, works tirelessly. Put him in a United shirt and he will take off! If we can ship players + cash, yes please!
Agree 100%
Don't get the negativity here for Jack.
Yet Villa won't sell for less than £60m and he's not worth that for a bench player.
He won't be a bench player. He'll be a rotation player with Bruno and Rashford (and maybe even other positions). We'll run Bruno and Rashford in the ground if we can't rotate them. Having Grealish in the squad, to start a high number of games in stead of Pereira, Lingard or Mata would be a significant improvement.
We’ve been through this enough times bench = rotation
His starting position is the bench.
It wouldn't have been for the last couple of months with Rashford in his current form.
Exactly this. Or when Bruno is knackered.
I agree,
This thread just goes around in circles.
I would have liked to have seen him play in a central midfield position this year but every time I tuned in he was out on the left and with the recent comments by the England manager I wonder if he is going to have a word with his own manager regarding where he is deployed next season.
It's not that deep. Would he be in the starting line up if everybody was fit and in top form? no.
Yes he's good enough to fill in when we need him, but that's the definition of a bench player.
Where has this obsession with running players into the ground come from?
Did Rashford play more minutes last season than most other key players in the past? A quick scan of his minutes doesn’t look out of a normal range at all. It's also not like we didn't have opportunities to rest him. He player against some real minnows and rarely subbed.
We might need better cover should he get a long injury though.
I wrote before that we will buy him for an inflated fee after a few rounds of matches.
Rumored that Aston Villa want to work in Romero and Dalot + cash into a deal for Grealish. How much are those two worth?
Surely Romero £10m plus Dalot £20/30?
If Grealish price tag is £75m then Dalot is £30m. If Grealish is valued at £50m, then Dalot at £20m in my opinion.
I would pay £20m plus Romero and Dalot. Sell Smalling for £15m so our outlay is only £5m
At those figures this would be good business given we have goalie position set and dont rate Dalot to start for us. Probably great for the two of them also to get to play and get some 1st team action. Roma offered 17m€ for Smalling but club wanted 20m€?
Edit on wrong Smalling figures.
All depends on if the players want to go. From battling for CL spots to relegation is a big difference.
25m combined? That's maybe a stretch. Dalot + Romero + 30m would be a good deal I think.
Romero 10million, Dalot 7 million.
When in any football team is everybody fit and in top form at the same time?
Exactly, I do think Dalot fancies himself in a better team than Villa though. How about offering him to Wolves? They are getting rid of Doherty and Dalot's best position is probably RWB, along with all the Portuguese connections at Wolves, it seems like a good fit.
Why would wolves go near Dalot? They are lightyears ahead of Dalot.
Romero I can see perhaps having other ideas being high quality, but Dalot would gain valuable opportunity to play, but who knows, perhaps he has some path back for us in his roadmap.
He would feel right at home there and they could work with him. He deserves to play at this age. No idea why thats not gained any traction, seen as it makes good sense.
Maybe because he is young and hugely talented? Just because you don't rate him does not mean he isnt a good player given the chances to play regularly.
Wolves finished just below us last year.
He had four appearances last year and looked shit in all of them.
Be honest now, are you smoking something?
Might be if he has adjustment issues they are a good fit to salvage his potential. He wasn't counted out like this when we got him.
Bought as a squad player, this generally means if we reach a key cup final or play against one of the top teams they will be on the bench if all are fit and ready for action.
Romero -5 million .He's in the last year of his contract I think.
Dalot 10 million. Surprise,surprise we overpaid for him.
+ 40 million
Dalot 10 million. Surprise,surprise we overpaid for him.
+ 40 million
Romero + Dalot + 35-40m make more sense.
If a manager thinks they can improve the player, then why not? Like I said, his best position looks like RWB and we don't usually play that which is the reason he didnt get chances.
I think he is the biggest asset we hold who we can sell for a good price and not affect us if he leaves.
Source?
I think Wolves are after Maitland Niles to replace Doherty.
Birmingham mail sports section, probably not the most solid of links but its local news.
Fair enough.
Ok so let's rephrase that.
It's a game against Liverpool and we want our best 11 on the pitch. Does Grealish start ahead of Rashford or Fernandes if they're both fit and playing well?
Hopefully you're right. I do agree there's a good player in there, 100%.
Grealish might start ahead of Rashford in that game, only because he is so good at winning freekicks and he will track back.
Against Liverpool we need ball carriers and players who will be press resistant.
The other thing is look at the start of last season, who thought Matic would be first 11, but come to the end Greenwood and Matic were first 11.
The more I think about it the more I think we should just sign Sancho and grealish at whatever cost, recoup as much as possible from smalling dalot Romero lingard etc and just don't worry about any other position for now. Our defence was good over the course of a season last year and grealish and sancho strengthens our front four so much
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