Aston Villa insist Douglas Luiz is not going to be bought on switch deadline day, regardless of curiosity from a string of huge golf equipment and the midfielder within the final yr of his contract.
The 24-year-old has been linked with a transfer to the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and Atletico Madrid, with all these golf equipment eager about a really late transfer for the Brazilian.
The previous Manchester Metropolis man’s contract runs out on the finish of the season, which would appear to make a transfer extra doubtless, however Sky Sports activities report that Villa are standing agency and protecting maintain of their participant.
Luiz has discovered himself on the bench for a lot of the season to date, beginning simply as soon as recreation, however did come on to attain Villa’s purpose within the 2-1 defeat at Arsenal on Wednesday night time.
After the match, Villa boss Steven Gerrard admitted that Luiz’s future was out of his arms, however want to preserve maintain of the Brazil worldwide.
‘I’m not answerable for that,’ mentioned Gerrard of his midfielder’s scenario. ‘That will likely be Douglas, his agent and what occurs round that.
‘I want to preserve him. I believe he’s in a incredible participant. I’ve made that abundantly clear.
‘We’re not ready the place we have to lose our prime gamers however on the identical time Douglas has a yr to go.
‘It’s a type of actually sensitive conditions the place the membership has to do what’s finest for the membership, not essentially what’s finest for me.’
Defeat at Arsenal left Villa nineteenth within the Premier League desk with 4 defeats from their first 5 video games.
Leicester are the one facet under them and will go away Villa all-time low if they will beat Manchester United on the King Energy on Thursday night time.
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