Spoony Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 1 minute ago, briny_ear said: Reading what Purslow said, I think he implies if there was no release clause there would have been no new contract. Doesn’t he pretty much say this rather than just imply? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 1 minute ago, briny_ear said: Reading what Purslow said, I think he implies if there was no release clause there would have been no new contract. Yes fully appreciate that - given how much we needed him at the time - but lordy please in the future when there's no threat of relegation can we not do this again - no more pretending that a player wants to be at Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Like I said this move was in the offing for a while. I was annoyed at the timing but looks like it was so we could get our business done. Fair play to the club. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 1 minute ago, Spoony said: Doesn’t he pretty much say this rather than just imply? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 2 minutes ago, Spoony said: I dunno, I think that release clause got us the most we could have hoped for in the smoothest way possible. Think the board have done everything perfectly. Agree - not criticising the board, needs must at that time - but obviously 10 months after Jack signing a 5 year contract we found ourselves powerless in the face of financial dopers. Fortunately I think we will be there or thereabouts next time we find ourselves in this sort of situation (Louie Barry!) and I hope we never have to release a player due to a release clause ever again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 2 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: I would say for 4 seasons he's been playing at a higher level than the club, but even if it's just 3 that's far longer than we would have got from him if he weren't a fan. We'd all like it to have been longer of course, but if we take a bigger picture look at the situation we had quite a long time of 'local boy wonder playing for the club'. Every team has local youth products playing for them, but few have upward mobility with one of them leading the charge. We got to enjoy that for 3 and a half seasons. I don't know, given that we're practically barred from challenging for anything serious, seems like we're feeding on scraps there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Platt Posted August 5, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 5, 2021 “Winning a trophy with Manchester City is like losing your virginity to a prostitute” That reply made me smile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 8 minutes ago, Spoony said: Doesn’t he pretty much say this rather than just imply? It's exactly what he said lol. He agreed to sign a new contract, with ONE provisio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GENTLEMAN Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 For the few people that a fawning over his statement. Compare it to John Terry’s parting statement to us. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted August 5, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 5, 2021 30 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: £369,231 a week is a lot of money isn't it? He'll earn the amount of money that NSWE bought Villa for in four years. And there was the suggestion Villa were prepared to match and even offer more? If that’s true (it’s not), I’m delighted he left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HanoiVillan Posted August 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Keyblade said: Every team has local youth products playing for them, but few have upward mobility with one of them leading the charge. We got to enjoy that for 3 and a half seasons. I don't know, given that we're practically barred from challenging for anything serious, seems like we're feeding on scraps there. There were a lot of ups and downs, but if we choose to focus on the positives, in that time he captained the side for ten wins a row, helped us win a playoff final - the only thing we've won this millenium, apart from the Intertoto Cup - and scored the goal that saved our place in the Premier League. Just in that period, of little more than a year, we had more entertainment than we had had in most of the previous decade. I know nobody is really in the mood for hearing it, and that the stories about 'plans' and 'projects' and 'trajectories' are too seductive for people to ignore, but if we step back and stop viewing this as being part of a journey to a destination (dominance of the game, naturally) and instead view this as a pastime that we do because it's entertaining, we got a lot of entertainment value out of Grealish. I think it's a healthier way to enjoy the game, and a perspective that allows some enjoyment even if we in all likelihood fail to ever get close to a European spot. Edited August 5, 2021 by HanoiVillan 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Oooo Grealish is a rocket polisher He wears a rocket polishers hat Who cares about the next line he's a **** word removed 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cizzler Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 2 minutes ago, GENTLEMAN said: For the few people that a fawning over his statement. Compare it to John Terry’s parting statement to us. Yep, just PR garbage from his management team. Wouldn't expect anything else from him, mind. I really do hope he flops there. Be interesting to see how Spurs manage the Kane situation. I imagine Levy will take a much more hard-line approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicho Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) 8 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: There were a lot of ups and downs, but if we choose to focus on the positives, in that time he captained the side for ten wins a row, helped us win a playoff final - the only thing we've won this millenium, apart from the Intertoto Cup - and scored the goal that saved our place in the Premier League. Just in that period, of little more than a year, we had more entertainment than we had had in most of the previous decade. I know nobody is really in the mood for hearing it, and that the stories about 'plans' and 'projects' and 'trajectories' are too seductive for people to ignore, but if we step back and stop viewing this as being part of a journey to a destination (dominance of the game, naturally) and instead view this as a pastime that we do because it's entertaining, we got a lot of entertainment value out of Grealish. I think it's a healthier way to enjoy the game, and a perspective that allows some enjoyment even if we in all likelihood fail to ever get close to a European spot. Very much agree with this, we are hopefully 3/4 seasons away from being the team that he need us to be. He’s just too good to not be winning things. I’ll happily have him back if we get there, I have full faith he will. He’s so good it saddens me that it’s going to take maybe 3 apps for the media to call it. Im sad, I hope he wins everything. edit; you bore me if you wish him I’ll fortune Edited August 5, 2021 by Nicho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThunderPower_14 Posted August 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 5, 2021 I'm sorry, in the wake of the superleague scandal where Man City actively attempted to ruin football via a glass ceiling to feed their own greed, it is absolutely not the same as us buying Buendia from Norwich. Man City bought their way to their status with environmental destruction and human misery, and then the rules changed to stop anyone else from ever competing with them. They've since tried to twist that knife even further. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Just now, Mantis said: He's a Nike/Boohoo/whatever else brand representative first, football player second. Just in time for the Qatar World Cup. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 6 minutes ago, a m ole said: Just in time for the Qatar World Cup. I hope there will be a few Villans/VTers coming over for the World Cup here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciggiesnbeer Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Rage inducing. No such tweet for Ings of course. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 6 minutes ago, ciggiesnbeer said: Rage inducing. No such tweet for Ings of course. Probably points to another reason why he did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom13 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Think back to summer 18, the first summer of speculation around a big move for Jack. Think about that, and think about the many links he's had since. Has Jack once come out and said he wants to stay at Villa to stop the speculation? Until he knows he can't go anywhere/gets a new bumper contract, he then claims he's a loyal Villa fan. Reality is, if any bid since 2018 had been accepted, he would have been out the door. Looking back, it's naive to think any different, and I myself have been guilty of that naive thinking as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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