Manchester City are confident a British record offer of £100 million will be sufficient to secure the signing of Jack Grealish despite Aston Villa’s move to offer their captain a new contract.
Less than a year after Villa handed Grealish a new deal worth £125,000 a week, they are prepared to improve the England player’s terms again as they try to ward off interest from Pep Guardiola’s side.
The 25-year-old is a boyhood Villa fan and has made more than 200 appearances for the club, showing outstanding form last season before a shin problem kept him out for most of the last three months of the season.