{"id":16192,"date":"2025-07-25T06:11:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/report-aston-villa-could-be-forced-to-sell-two-first-team-stars-this-summer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:11:47","slug":"report-aston-villa-could-be-forced-to-sell-two-first-team-stars-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/report-aston-villa-could-be-forced-to-sell-two-first-team-stars-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Aston Villa could be forced to sell two first team stars this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/report-aston-villa-could-be-forced-to-sell-two-first-team-stars-this-summer\/#Aston_Villa_needs_to_balance_the_book\" >Aston Villa needs to balance the book<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/report-aston-villa-could-be-forced-to-sell-two-first-team-stars-this-summer\/#Emery_needs_to_keep_his_best_player\" >Emery needs to keep his best player<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa manager Unai Emery inspects the pitch. (Photo by Michael Steele\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aston Villa was able to consider selling two players this summer to balance the book.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They have been struggling with PSR issues recently, and financial expert Dan Plumley suggests that they could aim to remove some of the first team players this summer to improve their team.<\/p>\n<p>Emiliano Martinez has linked his moves from the club, and Ollie Watkins is also believed to be on the radar of top clubs. Plus, Jacob Ramsey has linked to potential moves to leave the club in search of normal playtime.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa aims to regularly push Europe and build a team that can compete for the trophies. It will be interesting to see if you are ready to sell some of the key players to improve the overall. <\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Aston_Villa_needs_to_balance_the_book\"><\/span>Aston Villa needs to balance the book<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Plumley revealed in Aston Villa News:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we say, it endures rationality as it predicts that they have to put out a few players to take the player if they want.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Emery_needs_to_keep_his_best_player\"><\/span>Emery needs to keep his best player<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manchester-united-fc-v-aston-villa-fc-premier-league-414x276.jpg.webp 414w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manchester-united-fc-v-aston-villa-fc-premier-league-630x420.jpg.webp 630w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manchester-united-fc-v-aston-villa-fc-premier-league-768x512.jpg.webp 768w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manchester-united-fc-v-aston-villa-fc-premier-league-770x514.jpg.webp 770w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manchester-united-fc-v-aston-villa-fc-premier-league-900x600.jpg.webp 900w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manchester-united-fc-v-aston-villa-fc-premier-league-1200x801.jpg.webp 1200w,https:\/\/icdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/manchester-united-fc-v-aston-villa-fc-premier-league.jpg.webp 1415w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1230px) 770px, (min-width:1020px) 630px, (min-width:900px) 880px, (min-width:680px) 97vw, (min-width:414px) 414px, 100vw\"><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ollie Watkins at Aston Villa (Photo: Alex Livesy\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Martinez and Watkins have been exceptional for Aston Villa for many years, and losing them will seriously undermine the team. It remains to be seen whether Unai Emery is ready to sanction both players from resigning this summer. <\/p>\n<p>Ramsey can use travel from the West Midlands Club. He needs to play more often, and his exit is also registered as a pure profit of the book. It is still unknown how the situation will develop. <\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa manager Unai Emery inspects the pitch. (Photo by Michael Steele\/Getty Images) Aston Villa was able to consider selling two players this summer to balance the book. They have been struggling with PSR issues recently, and financial expert Dan Plumley suggests that they could aim to remove some of the first team players this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-16192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}