Aston Villa open to signing £42m ace this month

Aston Villa discover themselves eighth within the Premier League after 22 video games performed, sitting on 36 factors, successful ten occasions, drawing six and shedding six.

The Villans have had some very cold and hot moments this season, beating Bayern Munich within the Champions League, but additionally having some heavy losses to the likes of Tottenham, Chelsea and Newcastle.

Unai Emery’s facet have averaged 49.8% possession per sport thus far this season, in comparison with final time period once they averaged 52.8% possession per sport, which suggests their capacity to manage the sport has been missing barely.

Summer time signing, Amadou Onana has been scuffling with a number of harm points in central midfield, in addition to Boubacar Kamara having some harm issues initially of this marketing campaign. This might imply there’s house for one more midfielder to enter the fray, and maybe assist resolve some management points within the Villa midfield.

Aston Villa aiming to signal former participant

Based on stories from talkSPORT, Aston Villa are one of many golf equipment open to providing Juventus midfielder, Douglas Luiz, a return to the Premier League.

Manchester Metropolis are one other membership eager about Luiz, with each events having had the Brazilian on their books already previously.

The 26-year-old made his transfer from Villa to Juventus in the summertime, becoming a member of the Italian giants for a price of round £42.35m.

Luiz has made 17 appearances this season for Juventus beneath Thiago Motta, has but to contribute any G/A to the facet, however has contributed to 9 clear sheets in his 550 minutes performed.

Why Luiz can be Villa’s finest piece of enterprise this January

Donyell Malen is a signing Aston Villa have already made this window, seeking to strengthen their attacking choices with a flexible ahead who can play all throughout the entrance line.

The 26-year-old signed from Dortmund for a price of round £21m, which may rise to £27.7m with performance-related add-ons.

Nonetheless, with the likes of Morgan Rogers, Ollie Watkins and Jhon Duran already sharing the targets properly, that midfield space so as to add extra management throughout video games could possibly be seen as extra essential for Emery, due to this fact resulting in a midfield acquisition resembling Luiz.

When analysing Luiz’s 2023/24 season for Aston Villa with Kamara’s 2024/25 season thus far, Luiz comes out on prime in lots of passing metrics, which might once more start to inform the story of their slight demise in controlling video games.

While Kamara is extra inclined to cross forwards after successful possession, Luiz averaged extra sideways and backward passing, which could possibly be higher to steadiness alongside Tielemans, who usually seems to interrupt the strains with ahead passes.

Luiz was labelled one of the crucial “underrated” gamers within the Premier League final season by Paul Merson, taking part in an enormous half of their success and qualification for the Champions League. He brings good duel-winning capacity, while being technical and composed on the ball beneath strain.

The return of the Brazilian midfielder may nicely carry the steadiness wanted -especially within the absence of Onana – alongside Tielemans, to carry extra management in video games, with out shedding that duel-winning capacity in central areas.

Villa already rating loads of targets and whereas Malen may make a robust influence, Luiz has already confirmed the distinction he makes to Emery’s facet. He’d be an amazing addition.