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Aston Villa are seriously considering a move to sign midfielder Douglas Luiz.<\/p>\n
No official club-to-club talks have taken place yet but Villa are exploring a potential deal to bring the Brazil international back to Villa Park.<\/p>\n
The Athletic\u00a0reported<\/a> last week that Chelsea were considering a move to sign Luiz \u2014 who made over 200 appearances for Villa between 2019 and 2024 \u2014 on loan for the rest of the season, being viewed as a good fit for Liam Rosenior\u2019s side as they challenge in the league, Champions League, FA Cup and League Cup.<\/p>\n Villa, however, are facing a midfield shortage. The Athletic revealed last week<\/a> that Boubacar Kamara will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury, while John McGinn is expected to be ruled out for six weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n Youri Tielemans, meanwhile, appeared to sustain an ankle injury in Unai Emery\u2019s side\u2019s two-goal victory at Newcastle United on Sunday.<\/p>\n Even prior to Tielemans\u2019 injury, Villa were considering reinforcements in midfield, with Ruben Loftus-Cheek among the options.<\/p>\n Luiz had been discussed as a possibility among representatives but it was not until recent days that Villa began to seriously explore discussions.<\/p>\n Luiz, 27, is on loan at Nottingham Forest from Serie A side Juventus but has only made eight top-flight appearances this term after time out with a hamstring injury earlier this season.<\/p>\n Luiz moved to Italy from Villa for \u20ac50million (\u00a342.3m; $53.6m) plus \u20ac1.5m in add-ons in the summer of 2024, but struggled to establish himself as a starter in his first season, playing 90 minutes only twice.<\/p>\n His loan at Forest includes an obligation to buy conditional on the number of appearances he makes, with the club also holding a \u20ac30m option to buy if he does not hit that number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Keogh\/Getty Images Aston Villa are seriously considering a move to sign midfielder Douglas Luiz. No official club-to-club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2604,219,218,115,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-392960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-aston-villa","tag-chelsea","tag-football","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}