Aston Villa’s pre-season tour to america is ready to proceed with contests in opposition to St Louis and Nashville, earlier than the Premier League season then will get underway.
Their final outing in America noticed the Villans tussle with Eintracht Frankfurt in a 2-2 rating draw, with each Ollie Watkins and Morgan Rogers getting in on the goalscoring act for Unai Emery’s males within the Louisville warmth.
Villa supporters far and huge will hope each Watkins and Rogers keep put at Villa Park for the foreseeable future, previous these summer season runouts, amid curiosity of their providers popping up from Premier League rivals Manchester United and Chelsea.
On high of that, followers of the West Midlands outfit can even hope extra signings come via the door earlier than the switch window slams shut, with a brand new £23m attacker reportedly on their radar.
Villa put together supply for £23m attacker
It has been a quiet window up to now on that entrance, with Marco Bizot the one actual notable addition in between the sticks for Emery’s facet.
That is to not say Villa have not been linked with some notable names this summer season, with current developments suggesting that Villa are eyeing up a free switch transfer for former Everton marksman Dominic Calvert-Lewin, alongside holding tabs on one other attacker within the type of ex-Arsenal striker Mika Biereth.
Nevertheless, probably the most thrilling hearsay of all of them has simply surfaced, with reviews from Italy – by way of TuttoJuve – suggesting that Villa, alongside Tottenham Hotspur, are very concerned with securing a deal for AS Roma’s Matias Soule.
It is said that the English duo are able to make a suggestion of round €32m (£27m) for the Argentine midfielder’s providers, with Roma able to sacrifice Soule to boost funds for their very own incoming purchases.
Villa will hope they strike gold by snapping up Soule’s providers, with the South American probably going to be one other Rogers-style star for Emery if all the pieces clicks.
Why Soule may be Emery’s subsequent Rogers
After all, no one could be anticipating that Soule would hit the bottom operating instantly in England, with even Rogers himself needing a season to stand up to hurry with the calls for of the Premier League.
Certainly, Rogers’ first half season in claret and blue solely noticed him gather three strikes, earlier than then happening to amass a ridiculous haul of 14 objectives and 15 assists in all competitions when on the peak of his powers throughout his beautiful second marketing campaign.
The identical will hopefully be anticipated of the £23m attacker, with Soule simply contemporary off a breakout season on the Stadio Olimpico, having needed to minimize his tooth away from Juventus on mortgage at lowly Frosinone, earlier than then coming into his personal in Rome.
Rogers additionally had those self same hurdles to beat, with the previous Manchester Metropolis youth product marooned in League One simply 5 years in the past when shoved out to Lincoln Metropolis, solely to now be seen as an “unstoppable” power – as he is been labelled by Jamie Carragher – that’s Champions League established and fearless on the very pinnacle of the English sport.
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Soule’s league numbers (23/24) + (24/25) |
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Stat – per 90 minutes* |
Soule (23/24) |
Soule (24/25) |
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Video games performed |
36 |
27 |
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Targets scored |
11 |
5 |
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Assists |
3 |
5 |
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Touches* |
62.6 |
50.8 |
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Correct passes* |
31.7 (81%) |
26.9 (87%) |
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Key passes* |
2.3 |
1.9 |
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Huge possibilities missed |
6 |
4 |
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Huge possibilities created |
8 |
9 |
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Stats by Sofascore |
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Throughout his final two campaigns in Serie A for Frosinone and Gian Piero Gasperini’s males, Soule has displayed similarities to Rogers’ blistering Villa performances, with an eye fixed for aim very a lot on show by the 23-year-old when lining up for his mortgage employers throughout the 2023/24 season, culminating in 11 strikes being powered house.
But, his efforts in Rome final marketing campaign additionally displayed a power to create possibilities for teammates round him, with 5 assists tallied up. He additionally created 9 huge possibilities, suggesting he may attain even loftier heights surrounded by Villa attackers similar to Watkins, which additionally is not too far faraway from Rogers’ whole of 16.
Lauded as being an “unpredictable” expertise by soccer analyst Ben Mattinson, the hope will probably be on Villa’s finish that they unearth one other diamond in the same vein to Rogers.
Able to additionally enjoying down the channels, away from solely lining up as a quantity ten, there’s even a chance that the pair could cause havoc collectively subsequent season, as Villa purpose to interrupt into the Champions League positions once more.
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