is this option to buy next Summer, it just seems completely out of sync with the current market, shitty as that is anyway.
Looking at the thread about Guehi and his cost to the RS makes it even more bizarre. I got ChatGPT to do a table of Top 20 sales over 30 years old (excluding Saudi ones) and it sticks Grealish in Top 5 if we got him next year with 1 year left on his contract

He's a great player but he's not in this sort of league...

Name | Age | Price (£m) | Contract Remaining
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Cristiano Ronaldo | 33 | 97.5 | 2y 11m
Harry Kane | 30 | 79.1 | 1y
Casemiro | 30 | 59.9 | 2y 10m
Jack Grealish (option) | 30 | 50.0 | 1y
Miralem Pjanić | 30 | 50.0 | 3y
Marco Verratti | 30 | 45.0 | 3y
Robert Lewandowski | 33 | 45.0 | 1y
Paulinho | 30 | 42.0 | 2y 6m
Leonardo Bonucci | 30 | 42.0 | 3y 11m
Kalidou Koulibaly | 31 | 40.0 | 1y
Radja Nainggolan | 30 | 38.0 | 3y
Gabriel Batistuta | 31 | 36.2 | Unknown
Mats Hummels | 30 | 38.0 | 1y 11m
Sadio Mané | 30 | 32.0 | 1y
Edin Džeko | 31 | 31.0 | Unknown
Thiago Silva | 35 | 31.0 | 1y
Gonzalo Higuaín | 31 | 30.8 | 2y
Carlos Tévez | 30 | 30.0 | 2y
Pablo Aimar | 30 | 30.0 | Unknown
Fernando Llorente | 30 | 30.0 | 1y