Welcome back to a new season of The Athletic's definitive weekly podcast on Aston Villa FC, hosted by Dan Bardell with our Villa writer Gregg Evans.

It's the news we've all been dreading, but it's finally happened. The club are understood to have accepted a bid of 100m pounds for talismanic midfielder Jack Grealish. There's anger amongst fans but is that justified and was the move inevitable for a player who sees himself challenging for Champions League glory?

The other side of the coin, quite literally, is how the fee will be spent, and when... We take a look at the players signed already this summer and who might yet arrive.

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