Callum O’Hare could be about to leave Aston Villa for a ‘minimal compensation fee’ with Coventry City keen to sign the League One champion on a permanent basis, according to the Coventry Live.
With Villa gearing up for ‘Project Re-Start’, manager Dean Smith could be about to hand out debuts to a whole host of homegrown talents.
Louie Barry, Jack Clarke and Aaron Ramsey (no, not that one) have all been training with Smith’s first-team in recent times.
And Villa under pressure to squeeze ten games into a five-week ‘festival of football’, the Premier League strugglers may have no choice but to throw a couple of untested teenagers in at the deep end.
But there remains a very real possibility that arguably the most exciting young player to rise through the ranks at Bodymoor Heath since a certain Jack Grealish could be heading for the exit door within the next fortnight.
O’Hare, a floppy-haired number ten with dazzling technical ability, is set to become a free agent on July 1.
And, after helping Mark Robins’ Coventry secure a return to the Championship with some eye-catching performances on loan in League One, the third-tier winners are now looking to keep O’Hare around for the long haul.
What’s more, Aston Villa could lose the Telford-born starlet for next to nothing.
And that will not go down well with the claret and blue fanbase, many of whom have been desperate to see O’Hare be handed a chance in the first team.
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