Aston Villa eye Porto striker

Aston Villa are set to enter the marketplace for a brand new striker in the summertime, with Porto front-man Samu Aghehowa rising as a switch goal to interchange Jhon Duran.

Sources with an in depth understanding of the scenario have knowledgeable CaughtOffside that the gifted younger Spain worldwide is on Villa’s radar, together with long-time admirers similar to Chelsea, Arsenal and West Ham.

Aghehowa solely joined Porto from Atletico Madrid final summer time, however he’s carried out fantastically throughout his time in Portugal, scoring 19 objectives in 31 video games in all competitions.

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Chelsea have been strongly in for Aghehowa earlier than he ended up becoming a member of Porto, they usually stay within the 20-year-old, however Villa are additionally majorly stepping up their curiosity.

One challenge, nevertheless, is that Aghehowa is now valued as extremely as €50million, so it stays to be seen which golf equipment might be ready or keen to fulfill that asking worth.

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Samu Aghehowa in motion for FC Porto (Picture by Octavio Passos/Getty Pictures)

Aghehowa might be ideally suited to offer Villa one other prime younger striker to fill the void left by Duran, while additionally giving Unai Emery an alternative choice to Ollie Watkins.

It might absolutely be tempting for Aghehowa to maneuver to Villa Park proper now as they’re a membership on the up, however it will even be fascinating to see if Chelsea or Arsenal might tempt the participant.

The Blues actually want one thing completely different up entrance after Nicolas Jackson’s inconsistent type, in order that they’ll absolutely think about various strikers this summer time.

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Arsenal’s points up entrance are additionally effectively documented, with Mikel Arteta counting on Kai Havertz in that place, regardless that it’s not essentially his greatest position.

In the meantime, the Gunners have additionally had issues with Gabriel Jesus’ health, so they might arguably do with a couple of reinforcement in assault this summer time.