Dreadful article full of holes. He talks about us having to sell Villa Park to meet FFP but then a few lines later explains how we haven’t released our accounts for the 1819 season, the season we sold VP. Pretty sure an incremental £57m will see us just fine... add that to the fact that he already undermines himself by saying we get an extra £100m from the premier league and spent about £90 (not counting the fact that most of that will be on 4 year deals with add ons so we’re probably talking £25m this year...)Sounds like an article just to peddle Grealish ahead of the January window given his focus on him.
If he has a 45mil buy out clause then that is poor negotiating from Villa.I doubt it’s that low but I guess nothing in football should come as a shock.
The club should make a statement in the next few days, stating the true facts.