Aston Villa may forfeit a player due to six significant contract decisions. loom

Aston Villa may forfeit a player due to six significant contract decisions. loom

BirminghamLive provides Aston Villa news as the team prepares to lose Bertrand Traore for free at the conclusion of the season.

Bertrand Traore may leave Aston Villa for free in the summer, and five more players will have one year left on their existing contracts when this one ends.

Villa has one more chance to raise money from Traore this month. Traore joined the team in the summer of 2020. He has not yet played in the league this season.

The five players whose contracts are about to expire are Morgan Sanson, Kortney Hause, Robin Olsen, Leon Bailey, and Calum Chambers. This is the summary.

This season, the winger has only made two appearances in the Premier League, playing 10 minutes total as a substitute in Villa’s victories over Burnley and Luton Town. Over the course of three Europa Conference League group stage games, he has played an additional 12 minutes.

Despite his injury issues this season, he will be traveling to AFCON after returning from the November international break hurt.

After starting just one Premier League game since Emery’s arrival in November 2022—during Tyrone Mings’ absence from the encounter against Man City back in February—the defender may depart Villa in January. Although Chambers has only made three appearances this season across all competitions, he has not yet made an appearance in the league.

Although he arrived from Arsenal in January 2022, it doesn’t seem like he will stay at the team.

On Wednesday, Hause resumed his normal training schedule at Bodymoor Heath. It had been more than 15 months since his last competitive game, which he played while on loan at Watford. The center back may depart Villa during the January transfer window after being left off of the team’s 25-man roster for the 2023–24 campaign.

Hause, who has only made three appearances for the Championship team, had surgery for a knee issue. He hasn’t played in a competitive game since mid-September of 2022, when he was last included in the matchday squad against Wigan Athletic on October 29, 2022.