‘He’s done so well’: Harry Redknapp urges Arsenal to sign £100m rising star

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Harry Redknapp has urged Arsenal to sign Aston Villa star Jack Grealish, as he told his own podcast.

The former Premier League boss thinks Arsenal should build their team around the boyhood Villa fan, who seemingly has a £100 million price-tag over his head, according to the Telegraph.

Whilst Arsenal have picked up the pace in recent weeks, it’s pretty clear that a lot of work still needs to be done on a team that was being talked about as potential relegation candidates only last month.

Former Spurs boss Redknapp, who was talking with Piers Morgan, labelled Arsenal as a ‘massive football club’ and think they need to splash the cash on a Grealish.

“I think they have to spend,” said Redknapp. “They are way off it, at the moment. They need to bring a bit of quality. Arsenal is a massive football club – Take a Grealish. He needs to play at the bigger club.”

Piers Morgan then tells Redknapp that he would ‘break the bank’ for Grealish and ‘build the team around him’ to which he responded by saying ‘absolutely’.

“I have been saying that about England for months and months,” added Redknapp. “If he was with any other country, national or international player, they would build the team around him.

“We would be going ‘Oh, we are playing Italy, they have got this fella in midfield. We have got to do something’. I think he has got into the England team more by accident. He has done so well and there’s no leaving them out.”

Grealish has created the most chances in the Premier League this season and he will be hoping he can guide his boyhood club into Europe.

Villa are a different animal to the one that survived relegation last term and Arsenal fans have witnessed that first hand after they saw their side demolished 3-0 by Dean Smith’s men at the Emirates.

But prizing away Grealish from Villa Park will be difficult because they have wealthy owners, they want to get back to the glory days themselves and it would take a lot of money to secure his talents.