Villa Splash Out £42,000,000 On A Striker

Twenty-nine year old Gonzalo Higuain has become Aston Villa's most expensive signing EVER after signing for The Villans from Napoli. The Argentine striker, who is 29, played 131 times in four season's in which over that time he scored 63 times in that time.

This deal has taken everyone in the footballing world by surprise, especially considering that Villa usually only play one striker up front, so this must now mean that Saloman Rondon will have a strike partner this upcoming season whether it is Sturridge or Higuain and with Volland, Sterling and Grealish in behind, this Villa side looks scary. Will there be anymore signings at Villa now? Manager Paul McGrath said this of the question, No.

That was it, the answer the journalist was looking for.

It is a massive coup for Aston Villa and actually shows just how far the Midlands club has come in the time since Mario Plattner took over from Randy Lerner, it is understood Higuain will make his debut this weekend against Reading in the first Premier League match of the season to partner Rondon up front.

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Aston Villa SMASH PSV to make the Champions League Group Stages

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When Aston Villa was drawn against PSV the Villa fans were expecting a tight affair over two legs. The first leg was played at Philips Stadion and when Jurgen Locadia put PSV ahead deservedly, you would excuse the Villa fans wondering if they had forgot to turn up but the goal for the hosts actually sprung the visitors into life and new signing Daniel Sturridge got the equaliser after good play by Milner and Volland. John Stones got the second to put Villa ahead just after half time and Sterling continued his awesome start to the season by adding the third in the 56th minute. Just before that however Ozturk had got the Dutch sides second goal of the match to equalise. Daniel Sturridge then finished the job off to make it 4-2 in the 68th minute and surely Villa could not throw the second leg away.

Villa, who had not lost this season coming into the second leg started a lot more brighter infront of 55,000 fans at the newly updated Villa Park and Rondon, who had got his first two goals of the season in the 4-1 victory against Swansea added his third of the season in the second leg. Villa were all over PSV here and amazingly went into half time with just the one goal scored. Raheem Sterling scored his forth and fifth goal of the season in the match against PSV and although they got a consolation goal, Villa won 7-3 on aggregate.



Aston Villa have landed a group that they should be able to progress in, in the Uefa Champions League. They were in pot 4, so were the lowest seeds in the draw which meant that they will play Olympiakos in Greece, Porto in Portugal and Atletico Madrid in Spain. It is going to be an exciting time this season for the Villans.

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