Six players who could regret leaving Aston Villa after Chukwuemeka and Coutinho struggles

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In the thirty years since the Premier League’s founding, player transactions have brought in almost £500 million for Aston Villa, but not all of these departures have ended happily.

Many players have come and gone in recent years, especially considering the club’s struggles over the last ten or so years to avoid relegation and rebuild the team to the heights from whence it once plummeted. Villa were midtable mediocrity in the Championship just five years ago.

Here are six players who might have regretted leaving Villa, or indeed the transfer they accepted…

Coutinho

The Brazilian left Villa on loan in the summer to join Al-Duhail in the Qatari Stars League, but has only played 420 minutes of football across six league appearances. Reports in Spain claim that Coutinho could seek an exit given the interest in him from MLS clubs Inter Miami or LA Galaxy. While Villa were happy to offload him due to his huge wages, Coutinho had shown what talent he had when he first arrived at Villa on loan. But since then and until his exit in the summer, he didn’t look like he wanted to reignite his career at Villa. Now, despite only being 31, his best days are well and truly behind him.

The teenager made it plain that he did not want to commit his career to the squad he joined from Northampton in 2016 when he made the £20 million transfer from Villa to the Blues in August 2022.At the conclusion of the 2020–21 season, Chukwuemeka made his Premier League debut at Villa while playing for Dean Smith. The next season, he made 12 appearances, primarily for Steven Gerrard, who was eager to sign the midfield player to a new contract.Chukwuemeka was excluded from the team’s Australian trip before to the commencement of the previous season when he declined to sign new terms. Chukwuemeka has only started four league games for the Blues so far this season; he will turn 21 later this year.

Chukwuemeka

The striker scored 49 goals in 101 games for Villa, before he left the club in 2015 to join Liverpool, but he failed to kick-on at Anfield and his career never got back on track. After netting just 10 goals for the Reds in 42 appearences, he joined Crystal Palace. Had Benteke stayed at Villa for the 2015/16, who knows if the club would have managed to survive in the Premier League. Although his arrival did not surprise supporters, Jurgen Klopp signed him in an unusual move.Benteke may have wasted the best years of his career at Liverpool because he did not fit in with Klopp’s system or the club.

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