Aston Villa are open to offers for Marvelous Nakamba, according to The Athletic, with Anwar El Ghazi and Bertrand Traore also on the Premier League club’s transfer list.
It’s a late-summer firesale at Aston Villa. Not quite ‘everything must go’, but Steven Gerrard’s flabby squad is certainly in need of some trimming.
A handful of high-earners were left out of the matchday squad for Villa’s 2-0 opening day defeat to newly-promoted Bournemouth.
One of those, Frederic Guilbert, hasn’t even made a Premier League appearance since the 2019/20 season. The former Caen full-back, despite an impressive loan spell back home in France with Strasbourg, is certainly ripe for the chop.
“Is there a chance that I will stay at Strasbourg next season? I’m more likely to stay in Alsace than go back to England!” Guilbert said back in May.
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Morgan Sanson, another Ligue 1 import, was also not part of Gerrard’s travelling party at the Vitality Stadium. The signing of the £15 million playmaker looked like a coup when Sanson arrived from Marseille back in January 2021. Nearly two years on, his most memorable moment on English soil was a petulant kick at a water bottle after being hooked at Old Trafford.
According to The Athletic, Anwar El Ghazi, Bertrand Traore and Marvelous Nakamba are also in the ‘no future at Villa Park’ camp. Kortney Hause, meanwhile, could leave on loan with Watford of the Championship interested.
Of the aforementioned quartet, Nakamba is the player who’s departure would potentially raise the most eyebrows. Gerrard was glowing in his praise of the former Club Brugge enforcer after an impressive start to the post-Dean Smith era last year, labelling Nakamba ‘outstanding’.
A cruelly-timed knee injury soon put pay to any hopes of a sustained renaissance in Villa colours, however. And, in truth, Nakamba would find game time hard to come by if he stays at Bodymoor Heath.
Summer signing Boubacar Kamara is now Aston Villa’s first-choice number six. Douglas Luiz, meanwhile, could put to bed speculation over his own future by signing a new, long-term contract.
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