Well, the day seems to have arrived when Jack will decide that Manchester is bigger than Birmingham. There's a chance that a Manchester downpour might scupper the process, but that is unlikely.
The situation opens up emotions in different ways; only last year he had been so convinced by the owners and chief exec of their plan to build a successful Aston Villa, and the previous talk of Dean building a team around him, but it seems that Jack has been swayed by the glib talk that a money-fuelled business tends to generate.
The picture painted is that it's always so much greener on the other side of the fence. Is that right? Having missed so many games last season could he not have given his boyhood team one more season to see what was developing at Villa Park? Surely the signing of Buendia must have excited his ambitions for Villa?
On the other hand (and there is another perspective, of course), the Villa will gain £100m and we can purchase more quality players, as well as the team not being so reliant on one player. But the downside is that this is the sort of disruption that can slow down Villa's progress - unless the new players' gell quickly and win something before the other players start to get itchy feet.
On balance, though I wish Jack well, I think this could be more of a sad day for the Villa, because the media (who always think they're right) will chalk this up as proof that the Villa are not to be compared with the so-called big teams in Manchester and London.
The Villa have a lot of proving to do - still.
All we can do is provide the emotional energy to keep Villa - this great club - making progress.
UTV!
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