{"id":533375,"date":"2023-10-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=533375"},"modified":"2023-10-29T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:00:00","slug":"sources-aston-villa-ready-to-open-luiz-talks-in-january-after-sources-arsenal-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-aston-villa-ready-to-open-luiz-talks-in-january-after-sources-arsenal-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Aston Villa ready to open Luiz talks in January after source’s Arsenal reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aston Villa are preparing to open contract talks with midfielder Douglas Luiz in the new year after his stellar early-season form, sources have told Football Insider<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arsenal are long-term admirers of the 25-year-old and have tried to sign him on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Football Insider\u00a0<\/strong>revealed on Friday (27 October) that Arsenal are likely to continue to keep tabs on Luiz in the build-up to 2024’s summer window<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But Aston Villa are ready to head that interest off by opening talks over a potential new contract – with his current deal set to expire in June 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luiz is now considered a key man at Villa Park by manager Unai Emery and could be set to land a big renewal with discussions potentially set to open as early as January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Midlands giants have already wrapped up new contracts for the likes of Ollie Watkins, Ezri Konsa and John McGinn in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aston Villa are desperate to keep Luiz at the club and are under no pressure to sell as they are financially strong and well-backed by co-owners Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ex-Man City star has started each of their nine Premier League games so far this season, notching five top-flight goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has also featured in the Europa Conference League and League Cup this term, scoring once in the former.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luiz earned his ninth Brazil cap in the loss against Uruguay last week and will be eyeing a place in the Selecao squad for next year’s Copa America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aston Villa are fifth in the Premier League and are next in action against Luton on Sunday (29 October).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Midlands giants moved top of their Europa Conference League group on Thursday (26 October) with a comprehensive 4-1 win over AZ Alkmaar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, winger to be offered new Aston Villa deal on one condition.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aston Villa are preparing to open contract talks with midfielder Douglas Luiz in the new year after his stellar early-season form, sources have told Football Insider. Arsenal are long-term admirers of the 25-year-old and have tried to sign him on multiple occasions. Football Insider\u00a0revealed on Friday (27 October) that Arsenal are likely to continue to …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":533398,"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":[114,5582,7,4],"tags":[3,191],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533375"}],"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=533375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533397,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533375\/revisions\/533397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}