Aston Villa
‘Terrible’: Some Aston Villa fans are hammering one player tonight
Some Aston Villa fans have taken to Twitter to give their reaction to the performance of Henri Lansbury against Stoke City at home on Thursday evening. Lansbury was in action for Villa in their Carabao Cup tie against Stoke at Villa Park this evening. The former Nottingham Forest midfielder started the fourth-round tie and played for the entire 90 minutes, as the home team lost 1-0, with Sam Vokes scoring the only goal of the match in the 26th minute. According to WhoScored, the 29-year-old midfielder took two shots which were not on target, played three key passes, had a pass accuracy of 72.7%, won two headers, took 83 touches, attempted one dribble, and put in one cross. Some Villa fans were not impressed with the display produced by Lansbury and have strongly criticised him on Twitter. ...
Manager says player may leave, Aston Villa and West Ham reportedly want him
Chelsea manager Frank Lampard has told the club’s official website that Ruben Loftus-Cheek could leave on loan, amid reported interest from Aston Villa and West Ham United. According to The Express & Star, Villa are interested in signing Loftus-Cheek on loan from Premier League rivals Chelsea this summer. The Daily Mail has claimed of interest in the 24-year-old from Southampton and West Ham. Chelsea boss Lampard has said that the England international could go out loan this season to play regular first-team football. Lampard told Chelsea’s official website about Loftus-Cheek: “I’m very open with Ruben and we’ve had a couple of conversations in the last week. He’s fit as a fiddle so he can play week-in, week-out and he needs to play coming off the back of a lot of work now. He would ha...
Aston Villa are now reportedly facing Celtic competition for ‘very special’ player
Premier League club Aston Villa are reportedly facing competition from Scottish Premiership giants Celtic for Niclas Eliasson. French publication L’Equipe reported last week that Villa are interested in signing Eliasson from Bristol City in the summer transfer window. The report also credited French club Nimes with interest in the Swedish winger, who was described as a player who “can be very special in the Championship” by then City head coach Lee Johnson on the English club’s official website in August 2017. However, it seems that Villa will face competition from Celtic if they are to sign the 24-year-old, who is actually a very versatile attacking player and can play as an attacking midfielder, winger or left wing-back. According to The Scottish Sun, Celtic are planning to make a move f...
Report: Player wants to join Crystal Palace, not Aston Villa
Liverpool striker Rhian Brewster wants to speak to Crystal Palace, with Aston Villa also interested in him, according to The Sun. Palace want to sign the 20-year-old from Premier League rivals Liverpool in the summer transfer window, according to the British tabloid. The report has credited Sheffield United with interest in the striker as well, but he wants to go to London and play for Palace. It has been further claimed that the transfer fee could be as high as £20 million. Encouraging for Crystal Palace, blow for Aston Villa Brewster is a very good and promising young striker who did well at Swansea City in the second half of last season. The 20-year-old made 21 starts and one substitute appearance in the Championship for the Swans during his loan spell from Liverpool, scoring 11 goals i...
Report: Player will not leave Aston Villa, he wants to fight for his place
According to The Birmingham Mail, Frederic Guilbert will not leave Aston Villa in the summer transfer window. It has been reported that the 25-year-old right-back is willing to fight for his place in the Villa starting lineup and ‘is expected to stay’ at Villa Park beyond the end of the summer transfer window. France Football reported last month that the Frenchman is being pushed towards the exit door. Aston Villa spell Guilbert joined Villa from Caen in January 2019, but stayed at the French club until the end of the 2018-19 season. According to WhoScored, the 25-year-old right-back made 22 starts and three substitute appearances in the Premier League for Dean Smith’s side last season, providing two assists in the process. Aston Villa stay Guilbert has not been a huge success at Villa, bu...
Player Aston Villa keen on reportedly has another club in mind
Aston Villa could suffer a blow in their reported quest to sign Wylan Cyprien from Nice in the summer transfer window. According to Footmercato, Villa have made a bid of a bid of €17.5 million (£15.97 million) for the attacking midfielder. The report in the French news outlet, though, did not state whether or not Nice would accept the bid from the Premier League club. Le10Sport has claimed that Bordeaux are also interested in the 25-year-old, and that is where the former France Under-21 international wants to be at most. The report has stated that Cyprien prefers a move to Bordeaux to a switch to Villa. Blow for Aston Villa? Of course, if Bordeaux offer more than Villa, then Nice are going to sell Cyprien to their Ligue 1 rivals. However, at this point, it does seem that Bordeaux have made...
‘Be a class signing’, ‘Looks quality’ – Some Villa fans react to their reported bid for 25-yr-old
Aston Villa are thought to be interested in signing the French midfielder Wylan Cyprien this summer and they have submitted a bid for him already. Aston Villa have made a €17.5m offer to OGC Nice for French midfielder Wylan Cyprien, according to @DahbiaHattabi. Awaiting a response from Les Aiglons. — Get French Football News (@GFFN) September 25, 2020 The 25-year-old has done very well for Nice over the past year and he could prove to be a quality addition to Dean Smith’s midfield. The talented box to box midfielder will add a new skillset to Villa’s midfield if he joins the club. Cyprien is an excellent passer in the middle as well as the final third. Furthermore, the midfielder is a threat from set-pieces too. He will also provide a defensive cover to the back four with his high wor...
Aston Villa interested in signing Liverpool youngster
Aston Villa are interested in signing the Liverpool youngster Rhian Brewster this summer. The 20-year-old striker was on loan at Swansea City last season and he managed to score 11 goals for them. Brewster needs to leave the club in order to play regular first-team football and it will be interesting to see if the likes of Villa can agree on a fee with Liverpool in the coming weeks. According to Independent, Sheffield United are keen on signing the young striker as well and they have already spoken to the Reds regarding a move. Liverpool value the young striker at £25 million and they are hoping to insert a buy-back clause in the contract if Brewster is sold this summer. Such a deal would be ideal for Liverpool as it would allow the player to develop with the regular first-team football el...
Club announce they have signed £8.5m Aston Villa player
Mbwana Samatta has left Aston Villa for Fenerbahce, according to a statement on the Turkish club’s official website. Fenerbahce has announced this morning that they have signed the 27-year-old striker on a four-year contract. Disappointing Aston Villa spell Samatta joined Villa from Belgian club Genk in the January transfer window for a fee reported by The Daily Mail to be worth £8.5 million. The Tanzania international striker made 11 starts and three substitute appearances in the Premier League for the Villans during the second half of last season, scoring one goal in the process, according to WhoScored. No big loss for Aston Villa Samatta could not really make an impact at Villa in the second half of last season, and there is no surprise that the Villans have decided to severe ties with ...
Report: West Ham hoping to sign player whom PL manager hailed as ‘hell of a talent’
West Ham United are interested in signing Tammy Abraham from Chelsea, according to reports from the Daily Mail. The Hammers could face competition from fellow Premier League rivals Aston Villa this summer. Abraham, who scored 18 goals in 47 Chelsea appearances last term, fell out of Frank Lampard’s starting line-up towards the end of last season behind Olivier Giroud. The 22-year-old could further drop down the pecking order behind Timo Werner who joined this summer on a big-money deal from RB Leipzig. The England international striker has only managed just 11 minutes of Premier League action this season. He started against Barnsley in the Carabao Cup in which he netted his first goal of the season. He provided two assists, with Kai Havertz scoring a hat-trick. Villa enquired abo...
Report: Smith signing close to leaving Villa after being dropped from the squad
Astron Villa striker Mbwana Samatta is close to joining Turkish club Fenerbahce on loan this summer, according to reports from Goal.com. The 27-year-old striker joined Villa during the January transfer window for a reported fee of £8.5m on a four-and-a-half-year deal. He managed just two goals in 16 appearances and failed to make an impact as Villa narrowly escaped relegation last season. Samatta was omitted from the Aston Villa squad that defeated Sheffield United 1-0 on Monday. However, Dean Smith confirmed that the omission was due to his poor performance in training. Pictures of a former Genk striker and a #AVFC striker doing the rounds in Turkey. Fenerbahce want to close a deal. pic.twitter.com/07DzgYtV2H — Kristof Terreur 📰🎥 (@HLNinEngeland) September 24, 20...
Frank Lampard urges Premier League clubs to help save struggling EFL
Frank Lampard has urged Premier League clubs to ‘have a heart’ and help save Football League sides amid the financial implications of the coronavirus pandemic. The impact of the pandemic and continued absence of supporters is being felt right across the sport, but nowhere more so than the lower leagues who remain without a vital source of income as fixtures continue to be played behind-closed-doors. Sporting authorities have approached the government warning of the disastrous consequences potentially awaiting without financial aid, though the Telegraph are reporting that elite level football will not receive support given the riches at the highest level of the game. The government believes that the Premier League – the richest division in world football – should be responsible for providin...
