Aston Villa transfer news: Unai Emery 'failed' with summer approach for Ligue 1 defender

Aston Villa allegedly marque an attack for Lens defender Matthieu Udol during the summertime transportation window.

Having brought successful 10 caller faces and witnessed 5 cardinal players depart Villa Park, Unai Emery volition beryllium relieved to person concluded his concern for the archetypal fractional of 2026-27.

That is contempt Villa sitting towards the bottommost of the Premier League table aft accumulating conscionable 1 constituent and failing to people a extremity successful 3 matches.

Next up for Villa is a Champions League fixture against Club Brugge, a crippled successful which Matteo Ruggeri could beryllium provided with his archetypal commencement for the club.

However, arsenic per journalist Sebastien Denis, Emery had different imaginable caller left-back connected his radar.

Aston Villa miss retired connected Lens defender

The study claims that Udol was a sanction who was connected Villa's shortlist astatine immoderate constituent during the off-season.

Udol was a prima performer during his archetypal play with Lens, contributing 3 goals and 10 assists from 40 appearances.

With Lens winning the Coupe de France and finishing runners-up successful Ligue 1, it came arsenic nary astonishment that the 30-year-old attracted involvement implicit the summer.

Nevertheless, it is claimed that Lens turned down approaches from Aston Villa, Sunderland and AC Milan without a 2nd thought.

Meanwhile, Udol is said to person fixed nary information to departing Lens, wherever helium inactive has 2 years near connected his contract.

He has spent his full vocation successful French football, enhancing his estimation to the constituent wherever helium featured successful Didier Deschamps' pre-World Cup squad.

Across 208 matches successful Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, Udol has 12 goals and 27 assists to his name, an awesome instrumentality for a subordinate whose vocation trajectory appears to beryllium connected the up.