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Aston Villa linked with loan transfer for £30m midfielder - on one condition
Aston Villa have been linked with a move for Chelsea midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall in the January transfer window. Dewsbury-Hall only moved to Chelsea from Leicester City in the summer, having inspired the Foxes' title success under Enzo Maresca and ensuring the club returned to the Premier League at the first time of asking.
Dewsbury-Hall was one of a host of new signings Chelsea made in the summer, a list which includes Jadon Sancho, Joao Felix, Pedro Neto, Tosin Adarabioyo and Villa's very own Omari Kellyman. The midfielder, who excelled in the division below last year and delivered a string of performances which prompted Maresca to bring him with the Italian to Stamford Bridge, has featured painfully little up to now, however.
Dewsbury-Hall has played just 43 minutes of Premier League football spanning three appearances this season, and only one of those games - a six-minute run-out at West Ham - has occurred since August. While in the Europa Conference League and the EFL Cup minutes have been afforded more frequently - Dewsbury-Hall scored in a 4-2 win over Gent - he routinely hasn't made the Premier League squad in recent weeks.
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Despite having only arrived in West London, the immediate future of the 26-year-old - who cost Chelsea £30m - has come under the spotlight. Reports abroad suggest Villa could offer the Blues a deal in which they take Dewsbury-Hall on loan for the second half of this season, once the January transfer window opens, with the option of buying the player outright next summer if the move works out as planned.
Chelsea would want to recoup the £30m they spent on Dewsbury-Hall, who is currently behind Moises Caicedo, Romeo Lavia and Enzo Fernandez in Maresca's existing midfield pecking order, while Cesare Casadei and Carney Chukwuemeka are also available to the manager. The club allowed academy product Conor Gallagher to leave for Atletico Madrid in the summer.
Villa, meanwhile, aren't short of midfield options currently and so the links might raise eyebrows, although those who are available to Unai Emery have been struggling with various knocks and issues; Boubacar Kamara and Jacob Ramsey have wrestled with various injury problems for some time and both suffered injuries at Liverpool at the weekend. Youri Tielemans and Amadou Onana have held down spots while Ross Barkley is also an option.
