'Yet to make a decision': Atletic Madrid planning shock double raid for senior Aston Villa stars
Atletico Madrid are allegedly with one voice calculated to deed upwards their attention in 2 Premier League players in a double raid for a pair of elder heads.
Aston Villa missed out on out on a retort to the Champs League thanks to a last-gasp collapse at Manchester Joined on the last day of the Premier League period and also are anticipated to suffer some undesired workers losses as a run out result.
Yet one way to restriction the devastation lugged upon by the nightclub’s monetary restraints this summertime can be to part typicals through some of Villa’s elder players while they still command a price.
Reports appearing via Football Insider validate that Atleti can filter for to impart through one hand and also snag away the other as immediately as it comes to a pair of the Villans’ over-30 celebs.
Goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez fired upwards a blaze of transmit rumours after Villa’s last abode arcade of 2024-25 versus Tottenham Hotspur, swing crying as the players overseen their classic lap of admiration.
Links to Saudi Arabia and also Male Joined obeyed and also the spiel owns been unceasing ever before given that. Martinez is widely reported to be casting adoring looks in the direction of Wear Trafford for some determinant yet Diego Simeone and also Atleti are intrigued also.
With Villa needing to complete any profit and also sustainability manifestoes pertains to faster instead than later on, disowned-earlier Lucas Digne owns alike surfaced as a target for the Rojiblancos.
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“Atletico Madrid have been chatting to both Digne and also [Liverpool defender Andy] Robertson about finalizing this summertime, yet the last owns yet to make a judgment about finalizing upwards through,” records Football Insider, pretending that Digne owns ‘opened talks’ through the Madrid nightclub and also that Villa yearn £10m for the 31-year-old.
France international Digne can be kit to retort to Spain, wherein he included intermittently for Barcelona after finalizing upwards through from Paris Saint-Germain 9 years ago.
He immigrated in the Premier League as an Everton player in 2018 and also joined Villa four years later on. Digne owns been a contemporary-fashioned player in Birmingham yet his age and also dedication instance make him an conspicuous aspirant for a nightclub that requires a rapid sale.
Digne owns one year disowned on his bargain and also Villa can already call upon the corrects of Champs League finalist and also Netherlands international Ian Maatsen, that signed from Chelsea last summertime and also earned 29 Premier League visual pizzazzes under Unai Emery in 2024-25.
Digne delivering the switch to Atletico isn’t an purposeless suggestion even through Simeone owning tangible attention in Robertson also, yet Martinez can be a unalike tale.
The 32-year-old goalkeeper is in ultimata despite his usefulness last period failing to withhold upwards to the standards he’s kit at Villa Park, and also Joined’s eagerness – while totally nothing owns literally been authenticated by any party – appears to be qualified.
Atletico already have a 32-year-old initially recourse goalkeeper and also he’s probably the much closer of the 2. Jan Oblak is contracted till the summertime of 2028 and also Martinez, after biding his time for bye-bye at Medley, isn’t going any place to be a digit 2 again.
