I think Villa have been very fair and straight.If he was that good Liverpool would have kept him or at the very least, Aston Villa would have taken the option to sign him. For me he is vastly overrated living on being a Liverpool player, he must be good and thus a huge premium goes on any transfer fee, the list of failed Liverpool" big things" goes on. Also living on the fact he had a very good under 21's tournament, can't take that away from him. But from what I have seen of him he's never really stood out anywhere, even when he played for Villa earlier this season, he hardly touched the ball and if he did treated it like a hot potato. Unai Emery ain't soft he saw right away.
They've effectively said he's crap and we aren't wasting our money

