Aston Villa have lofty ambitions for subsequent season, regardless of lacking out on the Champions League.
Unai Emery’s undertaking remains to be very a lot ongoing, and the following step is for him to guide the membership to their first main trophy in almost 30 years.
The Europa League is likely to be their finest shot, particularly as successful it should safe a spot within the 2026/27 Champions League.
So as to do that, he must signal just a few high-profile gamers whereas additionally complying with PSR laws within the course of.
With this in thoughts, it appears to be like as if the membership are chasing a transfer for a present Barcelona participant.
Aston Villa chasing swoop for Barcelona sensation
Whereas it is likely to be barely harder to lure the kind of gamers Emery desires on the membership this summer time, it isn’t stopping the Spaniard from making an attempt.
Studies in Spain (as per Sport Witness) declare that Villa are battling it out with Chelsea and PSG to signal Barcelona starlet Fermin Lopez.
The report goes on to state that Villa and the French giants have made contact with Lopez and are exhibiting probably the most curiosity.
Chelsea might be set to make a suggestion price €75m (£63m) within the close to future to safe his signature, that means Emery must act swiftly to get his man.
Why Aston Villa should signal Lopez
There are such a lot of gifted gamers on the La Liga aspect now. Lopez joins an inventory which incorporates Pedri, Gavi, Pau Cubarsí and, after all, Lamine Yamal.
Properly, of these gamers, it’s Yamal he’s most just like. Compared with positionally comparable gamers in LaLiga this time period, FBref recommend that the generational wonderkid and Ballon d’Or contender is the fourth most comparable participant to Lopez.
Whereas the latter would possibly play a extra central position in comparison with Yamal, who operates on the suitable wing, the duo have shared comparable statistics in La Liga final season.
In keeping with FBref, the duo recorded comparable metrics, together with shot-creating actions (4.10 vs 5.92) per 90, goal-creating actions (0.50 vs 0.91), profitable take-on proportion (45.5% vs 50.9%) and photographs on course proportion (36.6% vs 31.9%) per 90 in La Liga for Barcelona.
On that proof, they’re each artistic gamers who like to get at their marker/
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Fermin Lopez’s statistics final season for Barcelona |
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Metric |
La Liga |
Champions League |
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Objectives |
6 |
1 |
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Assists |
5 |
3 |
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Massive probabilities created |
8 |
3 |
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Photographs per recreation |
1.5 |
1.5 |
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Key passes per recreation |
1 |
0.5 |
His former supervisor on the Catalan membership described Lopez as having the “entire package deal” and judging by his statistics and performances final time period, this evaluation is bang on the cash.
Alongside his 11 objective contributions, Lopez additionally created eight large probabilities within the prime flight, together with averaging one key cross per recreation.
Contemplating he began simply 12 league video games, averaging solely 45 minutes per match, these are spectacular statistics certainly.
Ought to he make the transfer to Villa, he would definitely safe extra gametime within the beginning XI than he was afforded underneath Hansi Flick final season.
Will he wish to drop and play within the Europa League, nevertheless? Or is the long-term undertaking at Villa sufficient to entice the teen?
The following few weeks might be attention-grabbing certainly, and given he supplied comparable statistics to these of Yamal final season, he would make for a wonderful signing.
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