Aston Villa Shopping For Players Excessively in the Summer Transfer Market

DBasia.news –  Premier League clubs are still relatively quiet shopping players in the transfer market this summer. Their transfer activities are not as crazy as LaLiga.

However, in the midst of the quiet transfer market sticking out a club which until now has been recorded to bring seven new players. The club in question is Aston Villa, who have just returned to the Premier League. In total, Aston Villa has spent around 86 million pounds.

This situation contrasted with two other promotion clubs, Norwich City and Sheffield United, which were quiet in the transfer market. Even compared to other Premier League residents, Aston Villa are busier.

This week, Villa agreed to sweeten Tyrone Mings and hook a young defender, Ezri Konsa. Konsa, which was bought for 12 million pounds from Brentford, is the seventh player to be brought in by Villa. And, The Guardian reported, Villa will still add to the stock of their new players.

Not a few observers who think Villa is too busy in the transfer market in preparing the squad to appear in the Premier League. Last season, Fulham did the same thing when promotion to the Premier League. The result? Fulham failed miserably and were again thrown out of the Premier League.

Will Villa repeat the same mistake with Fulham? The answer will certainly be known at the end of the season. However, what was done by Villa this time was not entirely equated with Fulham last season.

One fundamental thing that makes Villa different from Fulham is their motive when shopping. Villa currently need new players and they shop not because of compulsion or greed.

After making sure of the final promotion last season, Aston Villa was abandoned by many players, precisely 14. The situation that made the manager, Dean Smith, only had 17 players over the age of 21 years. That number includes players returning from loan periods such as Gary Gardner, Aaron Tshibola and Scott Hogan.

In addition, the new players brought in by Villa are actually not new. Anwar El Ghazi, Kortney Hause, and Mings are players who last season have been strengthening Villa as a loan player.

While three other new players were brought in as direct replacements for those who left. Matt Targett came to fill the position left by Alan Hutton on the left side of the defense. The Brazilian striker, who is also the club’s most expensive purchase, Wesley Moraes, joined forces to replace Tammy Abraham, who returned to Chelsea.

Then, Ezri Konsa came to fill a place in the central defense. The position last season belongs to Axel Tuanzebe.

Seeing this situation, it did not seem right when equating Villa with Fulham, although at the end of the season reap similar results. Villa is active in the player transfer market because there is no other choice. They must quickly fill in an empty position.

Indeed, Fulham also need new players to jump in the Premier League. But Fulham didn’t do it long ago. They are just aggressively moving when the competition is in sight. This is where Villa takes lessons from Fulham.

Last season, Fulham brought in seven new players in August. Of the seven players, five were obtained on the last day of the transfer window. All are running in a hurry, forced, and based on despair because of the deadline.

As a result, new players do not fully meet their needs. Or if it suits your needs, the player has difficulty because of the minimal adaptation period.

It can be concluded, Villa did not make the same mistake with Fulham. Instead, Villa actually learned from Fulham’s mistakes, regardless of whether the result would be similar or not.