Alan Hutton shares verdict as Morgan Sanson nears Aston Villa exit this summer
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Alan Hutton has insisted that it is the right time for Aston Villa to move on Morgan Sanson this summer with an exit now on the cards.
The ex-Villa defender has admitted that getting the Frenchman off the wage bill will allow Steven Gerrard to bring another midfielder into the club.
The Mirror have reported in the last week in their print edition [28 June, pg. 46] that Galatasaray are poised to seal a cut-price move for Sanson 17 months after he arrived.
“I think it’s a move that has not worked for either side,” he exclusively told Villa News.
“For himself as a player, and as a club – they brought him in thinking he would kick on to the next level. It’s not his fault, sometimes it just doesn’t happen, whether he hasn’t settled the way he would have wanted too, injuries have been a problem and not really being given the game time.
“He has been given opportunities, but I think injuries have hampered that. It’s always difficult with the likes of John McGinn and then Jacob Ramsey breaking into the team in front of him, it’s been hard.
“Get him off the wage bill, they can bring someone else in.”
Get it done.
This is one that certainly makes sense for all parties.
Sanson has not made waves at all after arriving from Marseille, and now there is a new Frenchman on the scene having followed the exact same pathway to Villa Park.
Boubacar Kamara has signed on after his contract expired at the Ligue 1 club, and it is certainly safe to say that he will be starting in that midfield three.
Gerrard made him one of his major targets this summer alongside Diego Carlos, and with both arriving early, they will have the entire pre-season period to get used to the system and start with no issues next month.
That pushes Sanson further down the pecking order, and now it is time to accept that it hasn’t even worked one little bit, and we can accept that injuries played a part.
There are no complaints, some moves simply don’t work out.
In other Aston Villa news, former midfielder Conor Hourihane has been left in transfer limbo after Wayne Rooney’s exit from Derby County