Jordan Ayew blasts Lorient as transfer hangs in balance?

He's coming!

“I’m delighted to have arrived in the UK and to have the opportunity to join a club the size of Aston Villa,” Ayew told Sky Sports News.

“I’m looking forward to meeting the manager and I am very excited about the prospect of playing in the best league in the world.

“I’m sure with the new players that Aston Villa are bringing in that we can all work together to make it a great season for a great football club.”

Or is he?

The Gospel according to L'Equipe

“It is incomprehensible. I was told that I could leave for €12m, but now they are asking for 10 million, in pounds, with 2 million in bonuses, which makes up about €17m! What the hell! This meeting finished very badly. I am really very annoyed, but it is incredible what they are doing to me. They were telling me about how much Amavi was bought for by Aston Villa, but I am not Amavi. We are two different players who have two different situations. They are basically saying that English clubs can only pay more, because they have money.

“It is finished for me, they bought me for €5m and they are blocking me. Today, I am in Birmingham, I am on my way to Aston Villa. Nothing will change my decision. I told them: “But why do you want to keep me at this point?” I won’t forget that last season, I did not play a single pre-season match and that I was quite badly criticised at the beginning of the season, but nobody at the club defence me. Members of staff would apparently reply by saying: “It is the President who bought him…” Also, my whole family wants to go to England…

“It is the right moment, my wife speaks English. In any case, I am no longer going to training. It is finished for me. It is true that I have a contract, but I had a good year, they will make a good profit and you cannot change the rules of the game like that. I can leave for one sum, but if it is Aston Villa, I am worth more. In my head, in any case, I have left.”