Aston Villa transfer stance revealed after fresh injury blow
Kosta Nedeljkovic will still be allowed to leave Aston Villa on loan despite Matty Cash's injury setback, Unai Emery has confirmed.
Cash will be sidelined for up to four weeks after suffering a calf injury in the first half of the 4-2 win over Celtic on Wednesday night. Lamare Bogarde shuffled across to right-back, while John McGinn - who replaced Cash - played in midfield for the remainder of the match.
Nedeljkovic, meanwhile, is expected to depart on loan in the final three days of the winter window after Villa signed 21-year-old right-back Andres Garcia from Levante for £6m last month.
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"We signed Andres Garcia because, as well, he is a young player with the potential he can show he's working with us, I think, 10 days more or less, and he's he's training very well, and Kosta, I spoke about him, and our decision is done," Emery explained when asked if Nedeljkovic will be kept in the squad after Cashs's injury.
"We want to let him to leave, to play matches, to play, to get minutes, to get confidence, to compete. And he's 19 years old. He's still being very young.
"And of course, in summer we working with him here, we decided to keep him here and watch him like we did, and now our decision is is done, to let him to live. And of course, until the last moment, he is with us, training, or even tomorrow, ready to play.
"He's ready to to help us. And he played in some matches, and even some moment, some important moment, he played and in Champions League in Leipzig, we won two, three. He played there as well 20 minutes, because he's a very good guy, humble, honest, hard worker.
"He wants to improve every day. He's always listening us, appreciating a lot how we are working with him, but he knows his next step is out of here, but always trying to to work in another club, in another country, and try to to recover again him for the next year, to try to use him here with his potential."
