Get the biggest City transfer window stories, pre-season news and updates delivered straight to your inbox Jack Grealish will be offered a bumper £200,000-a-week deal to stay at Aston Villa.
Villa are prepared to smash their pay ceiling to keep the England star out of the clutches of Man City, the Daily Star reports.
The club's owners - American Wes Edens and Egyptian tycoon Nassef Sawiris - have personally sanctioned the mega £10million-a-year new contract in a last ditch attempt to hang on to Villa's pin-up boy.
City boss Pep Guardiola wants the 25-year-old and talks are now under way to try and broker a deal. Grealish is a boyhood Villa fan and has been at the club since he was eight but his departure now seems inevitable.
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