Aston Villa have been linked with a move for Marcus Thuram and now a new update has emerged on the club’s pursuit of their potential transfer target.
What’s the latest?
According to journalist and transfer insider Dean Jones, Aston Villa are “well positioned” to sign the Borussia Monchengladbach striker.
Jones told GIVEMESPORT:
“We’ll just have to see who has a nibble on that and decides to actually make an approach.
“Certainly, Villa should be well positioned just in case it gets down to them and they actually do have a run at getting him.”
He’s a Danny Ings upgrade
There is no doubt that Unai Emery will be wanting to make his own personal mark on the team when the transfer window reopens next month and Thuram could be the perfect statement for the new manager to prove his ambitious intent for the Villa team.
The talented £8.5m Frenchman – who was once hailed “world-class” by Daniel Farke – is currently at the World Cup in Qatar and will be hoping that he can play a part in his nation’s quarter-final clash with England this weekend after making three substitution appearances so far.
In terms of his club performances, the Gladbach centre-forward has been in impeccable form in front of goal which clearly led to his France squad call up.
Over 15 Bundesliga appearances, Thuram has scored 10 goals, registered three assists and created three big chances, as well as averaging 3.7 shots on goal, 1.5 successful dribbles and 4.6 duels won per game.
Not only that, the goal machine ranks in the top 10% of his positional peers in the top five European leagues for interceptions, dribbles completed, touches and non-penalty goals.
In fact, Emery could land a huge Danny Ings upgrade with Thuram outperforming the 30-year-old striker in many attributes over the season so far including more goal contributions (13 v 5), a better shot-on-target rate (53.6% v 45.5%), more shot-creating actions (39 v 14) and more tackles and interceptions combined (13 v 9).
Villa are currently 12th in the Premier League and will need to increase their goal-scoring opportunities if they are going to climb into the top half of the table.
With that being said, the signing of Thuram would be a massive coup for Aston Villa and could certainly improve the attacking threat in front of goal over the second half of the season.
