Aston Villa replacements for Jack Grealish make no sense - Dan Bardell

Atheltic journalist Dan Bardell has taken aim at the Aston Villa recruitment team claiming their Jack Grealish replacements make “no sense at all.” 

The Lions’ former captain signed for Manchester City for £100million last summer after being at the club at the youth level since 2010. 

Bardell has fired shots at Villa’s recruitment team for the manner in which they spent Grealish’s money after his departure.

He said on the 1874 Aston Villa podcast: “Villa signed these players to replace Jack Grealish. But none of them play on the left, really. That just doesn’t make sense now. 

“I look back at it and can’t believe I didn’t pick that out at the time. That just makes no sense at all.”

Poor.

Filling the boots of one of Aston Villa’s greatest players of all time was always going to be very hard. 

Everyone at the club knew that his time at Villa Park was coming to an end and that they would have to acclimatise to life without the 26-year-old when he did eventually leave apart from the recruitment team it seems. 

His replacements were Danny Ings, Leon Bailey and Emiliano Buendia who make no mistake are all excellent players but as Bardell pointed out – none of them even play left wing. 

It seems as if the recruitment team got excited with the amount of money they could spend and forgot their main job, replacing the team's best player.

After an overall disappointing season having not really established themselves in this Lions team, there is still time for Buendia and Bailey in particular to turn things around and leave Bardell slightly red-faced. 

With that being said, if Villa fans are waiting for them to hit the heights of Grealish, they will be waiting a very, very long time.

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