Aston Villa struck gold on the star “unstoppable”

Football is cyclical. Large teams get up, then they fall. However, Aston Villa seems to have reached a worrying crossroads to a premature point of their project.

At the end of the 2024/25 season, Unai Emery watched in Agony when his team put a soft performance at Old Trafford. It was the last match of the Premier League campaign, and only one point would have been enough to take a place in the Champions League. Villa was beaten and with contacts.

Four games in the new League season, the Lions have not yet roaring, blocking each of their matches and losing twice. It is not time to panic, but fears of a regressive year have been increased by this slow start, and Emery knows that he must bring everything together.

Only Villa was inhibited through the summer transfer window, a by-product of this frustrating defeat in Manchester. It is for this reason that Jacob Ramsey was forcibly sold in Newcastle United, and that Vann Guessand was brought.

Villa, still, in Ollie Watkins at the head of the line.

Ollie Watkins is still the Talisman of Villa

Watkins has been in this match for some time, after playing 228 games in all competitions for Aston Villa, scoring 87 goals and providing 42 assists.

It has been synonymous with the club’s progress in recent years and offers a new number a varied and deep vision of the machine.

Watkins is one of the best attackers of the Premier League of his generation. Behind some selected superstars, it is the star of Three Lions who produces clinical performances as such that led the statistician Statman Dave to describe him as “one of the best 9 in the world”.

However, he is 29 years old (barely ancient) and reflects the aging nature of the first team team from Emery. Given that the tramments imposed on Villa Park on the summer transfers market have indeed led only to the permanent signature of Guessand, there is no doubt that young signatures will have to be made in the coming window.

Villa’s is not a team only made up of veterans, with one of the brightest young stars of the Premier League in the ranks, and although he is not an attacker, Morgan Rogers has the capacity to replace Watkins as a Talisman of Villa Park.

Emery hit the gold on Morgan Rogers

Rogers, 23, signed for Aston Villa of Middlesbrough in January 2024, joining the costs of 15 million pounds sterling. What a good deal. He played a role through the end of the 2023/24 season, but came to life after a complete pre-season, marking 29 goal involvement in all competitions while Villa was fighting on the fronts of the National League and Champions.

As Jamie Carragher, of Sky Sports noted, be “unstoppable” when he is shot, athletics and the rhythm of Rogers allow him to move between the large and central attacked places, and the division takes note.

Indeed, Rogers was crowned the young player of the year of the PFA for the 2024/25 season, and he certainly begins to settle as the best signature of the Midlands Club since Watkins was welcomed from Brentford for 28 million pounds Sterling in September 2020.

He sits among the estimated company.

Watkins was the man towards whom his teammates have been turning for some time, but it started to move the last quarter, Rogers proving a deep focal point but also a combative and tenacious force with talents in different phases of play.

Sofascore recorded, for example, that he had created 16 major chances in the Premier League last year and on average 1.8 dribbles and 4.7 successful duels per match, with his thermal card presenting his energy, covering so much ground.

Now also an international in Blood England, the talent of £ 75,000 per week may not have clicked on the opening weeks of the current campaign, but when the Emery system starts to purr once – and it will – then Rogers will surely form the nucleus of the next phase.

Villa must be delighted that they have managed to avoid separating from their young prices this summer, despite financial concerns and a tidal tide.

Indeed, Tottenham Hotspur had taken a particular taste in the dynamic midfielder, inquiring about his availability and not appearing dissuaded by the evaluation of 80 million pounds sterling by Aston Villa.

The truth is that Emery and her leadership Coterie could share an opinion that Rogers is insensible, his price something that would extend in record territory, if he needed to take advantage.

But the fierce resistance to the stung curiosity of divisional rivals this summer underlines the pedestal on which Emery placed it.

Already accomplished in the Champions League, Rogers has the world at his feet, and must surely imagine his chances of competing with the best of the company in the years to come. Not just in the Premier League, but around the world.

Rogers has not yet transformed into a player, the coaches who watch him every day, feel. Here is the greatest testimony of the growth of the single member of the Manchester City Academy, and in fact Emery’s ability to highlight it.

It is easy to forget that Rogers has only just started his second season by constantly playing at the upper level. There is still a lot to come, and Aston Villa will fought and nails against anyone who wants the price. Here, we have the new Talisman, ready to guide its side towards a sustained period of success.