{"id":528183,"date":"2023-09-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=528183"},"modified":"2023-09-21T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T09:00:00","slug":"talks-open-ezri-konsa-backed-to-agree-bumper-aston-villa-deal-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/talks-open-ezri-konsa-backed-to-agree-bumper-aston-villa-deal-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks open: Ezri Konsa backed to agree bumper Aston Villa deal – expert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gabby Agbonlahor<\/strong> has insisted “outstanding” Aston Villa defender Ezri Konsa is fully deserving of a new contract at the club as talks get underway.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Aston Villa striker, speaking exclusively to Football Insider<\/strong>, claimed the 25-year-old is the undisputed “number one” centre-back available to Unai Emery despite big-money deals for Diego Carlos and Pau Torres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Daily Mail<\/a> (20 September), Konsa is in talks over a new Aston Villa contract after establishing himself as a key player under Emery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Aston<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His current deal is set to expire in June 2026, but the report claims new discussions are taking place about potentially handing the defender a bumper new terms sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Konsa has started every game for Aston Villa this season, playing all 450 minutes of action in the Premier League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has been at the club since 2019 and has now racked up 145 appearances for the Midlands giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Centre-backs Tyrone Mings and Diego Carlos are currently on the treatment table at Villa Park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agbonlahor told Football Insider<\/strong>\u2019s Ewan Kingsbury: \u201cHe\u2019s a guaranteed starter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDiego Carlos was brought in to play alongside Konsa after Gerrard dropped Mings, but he got injured.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s come back and not really been the same. Mings is injured as well now.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKonsa is the number one centre-back at the club, with Torres and Carlos fighting to play alongside him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Aston<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been outstanding and he deserves a new contract. He\u2019s Mr Consistent for us, apart from a mistake against Newcastle – but all defenders can make mistakes like that.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou know what you\u2019re going to get from Konsa.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, Aston Villa recieve \u201cmega-money\u201d transfer payment.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gabby Agbonlahor has insisted “outstanding” Aston Villa defender Ezri Konsa is fully deserving of a new contract at the club as talks get underway. The former Aston Villa striker, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, claimed the 25-year-old is the undisputed “number one” centre-back available to Unai Emery despite big-money deals for Diego Carlos and Pau …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":356152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverart":"\"\"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","_grv_disable_ads":false,"grv_featured_categories":""},"categories":[5582,4,18923],"tags":[191],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528191,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528183\/revisions\/528191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}