The start of Aston Villa for the 2025/26 Premier League season was far from encouraging, the team of Unai Emery in search of their first victory in the league after five games.
Despite progress in Europe, the domestic form has left frustrated fans, and the former English striker Darren Bent has now publicly questioned the commitment of one of the most talented young players in Villa.
Speaking on Talksport, folded Morgan Rogers, saying that the 23 -year -old winger looks like a shadow of the player who shone so brilliantly last season.
Rogers played a decisive role in the 2024/25 Villa campaign, scoring eight goals and providing 10 assists while the club has reached the Champions League quarter -finals. His ascent even aroused the interest of Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea during the summer, with rising speculation that a movement could have materialized.
Morgan Rogers is struggling to perform at Aston Villa
However, Villa closed the door to any departure and insisted that the player was part of Emery’s long -term project.
However, since the start of the new season, Rogers has struggled badly for the form. In seven appearances in all competitions, he failed to record a single goal or help.
Speaking on Talksport, Bent said:
“Watkins does not trust, and you can see it. But Morgan Rogers seems that he is not interested, and I think that once-the fans are quite fast, when they see a player do not run completely or do what they were doing last season, they will hold, what’s going on here?
“Well, he was linked to big clubs, and maybe he thought” Oh it wouldn’t bother me one of them “and it did not happen. And that is why he may be a little thrown his toys the plow. Because he was good for England.
“So it’s the one I look at and that I’m going ” because I think he is a fantastic young player.”
Unai Emery must be concerned about Rogers & Watkins
The difficulties of the villa are not only down to Rogers, Ollie Watkins by also undergoing a difficult spell in front of the goal. However, as one of the brightest perspectives in the villa and the young player of the last year, the lack of sparks of Rogers is particularly damaging to the Emery system.
Emery faces a crucial decision in the coming weeks, whether to persist with a talent in difficulty in the hope that he is rediscovering his spark, or to make things happen and turn to alternatives.
Rogers remains an exceptional perspective, but unless its mentality and performance is quickly improving, the hope of villa to get out of the relegation zone could be serious.
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