Aston Villa have been linked with Leicester City’s Christian Fuchs.
According to a report in The Mirror, Aston Villa have identified Leicester City’s Christian Fuchs as a January option as they look to bolster the left-back area with Neil Taylor struggling for fitness.
Villa have no other fit recognised left-back, but the report states Fuchs wouldn’t come on the cheap with the Foxes wanting Villa to pay all of his £60,000-per-week wages if they were to allow the deal to go ahead.
The Midlands club should consider other options, and among them could be Crystal Palace’s Pape Souare who has reportedly emerged as a loan target for fellow Championship side Bolton Wanderers (The Sun on Sunday, paper edition, page 63, January 06 2019).
Souare, a Senegal international, joined Palace in January 2015 and went on to make 34 Premier League appearances in the 2015/16 campaign, signing a new three-and-a-half-year deal in 2016.
His Palace career, however, was put on hold following a horrific car crash which put him out of action for a year, and since then he has found first-team opportunities hard to come by despite his ability.
Villa are in need of a new left-back to maintain their push for a Championship playoff position this season, and Souare could be an ideal option with the player comfortable in possession and defensively sound.
In recent games regular right-back Alan Hutton has had to move over to left-back to fill in, and it has left the Villans somewhat unbalanced which has contributed to their leaky defence of late, conceding 11 goals in their last six games in all competitions.
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