Manchester City to make opening £75m bid for Grealish

 

Manchester City are preparing an opening offer of £75m plus add-ons for Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish, claims The Daily Mail.

 

Pep Guardiola has earmarked Grealish as a top transfer target this summer but knows he faces a real fight to prise him from boyhood club Villa.

 

Grealish is still undecided about his future and has a new £200,000-a-week offer on the table to extend his stay at Villa Park.

 

The 25-year-old has emerged as one of the best players in the Premier League in the last 12 months and Villa value the England international at £100m.

 

Grealish is due back from his holiday and aims to decide his Villa future by the end of next week.

 

 

 

Villa's preference is to keep Grealish in their ambitious push for Europe but if he does leave then they want a British transfer record in return.

 

Harry Maguire's £80m move to Manchester United is the current transfer record for a British player and Villa are demanding any club smash that for Grealish.

 

Villa's No.10 finished the 2020/21 Premier League campaign as the third highest WhoScored rated player in the division beind Kevin De Bruyne and fellow City target Harry Kane.