{"id":531494,"date":"2023-10-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=531494"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T12:00:00","slug":"sources-aston-villa-planning-to-open-leon-bailey-talks-pre-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-aston-villa-planning-to-open-leon-bailey-talks-pre-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Aston Villa planning to open Leon Bailey talks pre-January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aston Villa are considering offering winger Leon Bailey a new contract at the club in the coming months, sources have told Football Insider<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 26-year-old is out of contract in June 2025, meaning he will have 18 months left on his deal in the January transfer window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bailey has had a decent start to the new campaign, notching four goals and two assists in 11 games across all competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aston Villa are looking to build a squad capable of challenging for honours with huge ambition behind the scenes at the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamaica international Bailey signed for the Midlands giants in 2021 in their first wave of big-money signings since promotion back to the Premier League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Villa paid a reported<\/a>\u00a0fee of \u00a325million to Bayer Leverkusen to land the winger, who earns a reported<\/a>\u00a0wage of \u00a3100,000-a-week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has not yet hit the expected levels since making his Premier League move, and it is believed manager Unai Emery is wary of potential injury problems for Bailey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 26-year-old missed a big chunk of his first season at Villa Park but has since proved a reliable option for the Midlands giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, the club are ready to offer Bailey a renewed deal to protect his transfer value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has racked up 10 goals and eight assists in 65 appearances for the club since his arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aston Villa sit fifth in the Premier League after winning five of their opening eight top-flight games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Villains face West Ham next week (22 October) before travelling to Dutch side AZ Alkmaar in the Europa Conference League (26 October).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, midfielder wants to quit Aston Villa after fall-out with Emery.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aston Villa are considering offering winger Leon Bailey a new contract at the club in the coming months, sources have told Football Insider. The 26-year-old is out of contract in June 2025, meaning he will have 18 months left on his deal in the January transfer window. Bailey has had a decent start to the …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":531495,"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":[5582,7,4],"tags":[191],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531494"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531496,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531494\/revisions\/531496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}