Aston Villa transfer news: Atletico Madrid star 'evaluating' whether to accept Unai Emery offer

Aston Villa are reportedly pushing to motion Atletico Madrid defender Matteo Ruggeri.

With Lucas Digne successful enactment to motion for Paris Saint-Germain erstwhile helium has completed his summertime break, Villa necessitate a caller left-back.

AC Milan's Pervis Estupinan has been heavily linked with a switch to the West Midlands, lone for that woody to person gone acold successful caller days.

As it stands, Ian Maatsen is Villa's lone elder enactment astatine left-back, making it imperative that Unai Emery strengthens successful that country of the transportation arsenic soon arsenic possible.

According to MARCA, the Spaniard has present switched his attraction to trying to get a woody implicit the enactment for Ruggeri.

Aston Villa anxious to implicit Ruggeri transfer

The study alleges that Emery wants to motion the 24-year-old 'immediately', recognising the marketplace accidental successful beforehand of him.

With Atletico having brought successful Alex Grimaldo from Bayer Leverkusen, Ruggeri has been pushed down the pecking order.

That is contempt the Italian contributing 7 assists from 47 appearances for Diego Simeone's broadside successful his archetypal run astatine the club.

Ruggeri had antecedently earned his determination to the La Liga giants done his 109 outings for Atalanta BC, wherever helium had chipped successful with 2 goals, 10 assists and starred during their 2023-24 Europa League-winning season.

Amid Villa's eagerness to motion him, Ruggeri is said to beryllium evaluating the connection arsenic helium weighs up whether helium should bide his clip for proposals from elsewhere.

Villa would allegedly wage much than the €17m (£14.55m) that Atletico paid Atalanta past summer.

Ruggeri would beryllium cleanable signing for Aston Villa

Despite the qualities that Estupinan would bring Villa should helium get from San Siro, determination is an statement that helium is excessively akin to Maatsen successful the consciousness that his attacking qualities are amended than successful defence.

When helium possesses superior antiaircraft attributes, brings other tallness to the backline and tin beryllium viewed arsenic backup arsenic a left-sided centre-back, Ruggeri would correspond acold amended business.

With Estupinan presently grooming with AC Milan up of perchance staying put, it would marque consciousness for Villa to wage what is required for Ruggeri and adhd a much-needed caller look to their defence.