Gerrard does not stop: Coutinho, Digne … and now a midfielder for € 60M!

Neither the Premier League title contenders nor Newcastle, the new rich man in world football. The main shaker of the winter transfer market in England is being Steven Gerrard’s Aston Villa. While several phone calls from the English technician of the Villans Philippe Coutinho, former teammates at Liverpool, ended up with the footballer owned by FC Barcelona in Birmingham on loan, a dismissal of Rafa Benítez at Everton has ended up landing at Villa Park for almost 30M euros. Aston Villa has already formalized the incorporations of the Brazilian player and Lucas Digne in the current transfer window, but with everything and with that, Steven Gerrard’s team wants more. And it is that since Sky Sports suggest that, after the large investments made in the summer after the departure of Jack Grealish, the Villans they would be willing to dust off the wallet for a Premier League player.

Yves Bissouma, Brighton player and international with the Mali national team, is on the list of great teams in England, such as Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal. However, it could be Aston Villa who ends up taking one of the most interesting midfielders in English football for a figure that is around 50-60M euros. Sky Sports reports the interest of the Birmingham team in the 24-year-old footballer would have increased during the current transfer period “upon entering the last 18 months of contract”. Bissouma’s association with the Seagulls ends in June 2023 and, given the important poster that the Malian has in the Premier League, Graham Potter’s team could choose to exit. However, the player will not make any decisions regarding his future until he returns to England.

Bissouma is in Cameroon playing the African Cup with the Mali national team, which will culminate on February 6, when the transfer market is already closed. The Brighton midfielder was a substitute in the debut for the Mohamed Magassouba team against Tunisia, but played the last half hour of the match. The step forward that Steven Gerrard’s team intends to take in the current winter transfer market could truncate Liverpool’s plans, a team that, according to reports from England, had shown more interest in the Brighton footballer. And is that the idea of ​​Jürgen Klopp was to present an important offer to the Seagulls in the next summer transfer period, when Bissouma would only have one year left of his contract with Graham Potter. The midfielder is returning to shine for another season in Brighton, with the team in 9th position with 27 points and 2 games less.

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Since the former Aston Villa star left the club last summer, heading for Manchester City, the club’s board of directors Villans has come to the market based on a checkbook. The current team of Steven Gerrard, then led by Dean Smith, invested the almost 120M euros that the Citizens paid for Jack Grealish in three footballers: Emiliano Buendía, Leon Bailey and Danny Ings. Those from Birmingham reinforced the entire attack front by paying € 40m, € 32m and € 30m respectively for former Norwich City players Bayer Leverkusen and Southampton. After starting the season on the wrong foot, a situation that ended up costing Dean Smith his job, Aston Villa opted for Steven Gerrard to set the course for the team. Now, taking advantage of the transfer market, They want to form a team that allows the former Liverpool player to aspire to higher heights.