How Aston Villa have shrewd Morgan Rogers repayment plan as sell-on truth revealed
Aston Villa won't be losing much on Morgan Rogers' sale this summer.
Indeed, Rogers is about to bankroll the Villains in the like of which they've never seen before.
Chelsea are forking out £117million to bring the 23-year-old to Stamford Bridge this summer, in what will set a new British record for a player.
Villa signed Rogers from Middlesbrough in February 2024 for around £16m, meaning they're set to bank over £100m in profit with his move to Chelsea.
However, Middlesbrough, aware of his potential to go on and play at the highest level, smartly included a 20 per cent sell-on clause at the time of his switch to Villa Park.
As a result, Boro are going to take a sizeable portion of Rogers' transfer fee when the Chelsea deal goes through, but not all in one go.
How much Aston Villa will pay Middlesbrough for Morgan Rogers right now
Villa News has been debating how Aston Villa may go about reinvesting their Rogers money in what remains of the window.
The market is their proverbial oyster now, with the additional sales of Youri Tielemans and Lewis Dobbin respectively both further topping up their transfer kitty.
As aforementioned though, Villa won't take home all of the £117m for Rogers' Chelsea transfer, with both Middlesbrough and Man City taking their shares.
Detailed in a report from The Northern Echo, Middlesbrough are owed slightly north of £16m from Villa as per their 20 per cent sell-on clause, which would've been around £20m but Man City are also due 20 per cent of that figure.
But, Villa are revealed to be paying Boro that £16m in four instalments over the next three years, meaning for this summer, they will only be handing over slightly more than £4m to the Championship side.
Given Villa's well-documented financial challenges in recent years, this is a very wise method of honouring that sell-on clause, limiting the impact of what would've been a sizeable dent to lose in one go.
Losing Rogers will of course hurt, and it takes a key player out of Unai Emery's team, but what it does do is potentially set Aston Villa up for a consistent future at the top table of English, and European football.
Why Rogers' exit should be celebrated by Aston Villa
With Johan Manzambi through the door, Villa may already feel as though they've gone a long way to replacing Rogers already.
Joao Gomes is a quality addition too, having consistently proven himself to be a classy player at Premier League level with Wolves over the last few years, and is only just entering the prime of his career.
Now with Rogers' sale unlocking the door to even more significant investments, Villa now have a golden chance to sign a handful more top players this summer.
Villains should be thinking of this as losing one top player to allow themselves to bring in four or five, and with the talent already in the squad, those arrivals could turn Emery's team into genuine contenders both in the Premier League, and in Europe.
The likelihood is that Villa were never really going to get the chance to sell Rogers for more money than they are right now, and unless he becomes a top five player in world football, Chelsea surely won't sell him on for profit.
Rogers is a very good player, but what he does particularly well - ball-carrying, box-crashing, shooting from distance and link-up play - can all be brought back into the side, and as aforementioned, may already have been through Manzambi.
This transfer is not a loss for Aston Villa for the most part, instead, it's actually a huge win that should excite the Villa Park faithful for the doors it could open to future success and top talent.