Manchester City starlet Aro Muric should be goalkeeping target for Aston Villa

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Manchester City are ready to listen to loan offers for promising goalkeeper Aro Muric this summer, according to the Daily Mail.

They report that because Claudio Bravo is fit again and ready to resume his duties as the number two goalkeeper behind Ederson, Pep Guardiola is willing to let the 20-year-old leave the Etihad Stadium on a temporary basis.

The report says that Nottingham Forest are among a host of Championship clubs keen on the stopper, but one Premier League club reportedly in the market for a goalkeeper is newly-promoted Aston Villa.

Express and Star report that Villa are lining up a big-money bid for England international Jack Butland from Stoke City.

But Muric would be a far cheaper alternative and given that Villa can offer Premier League football, they should fancy themselves ahead of any second tier club if they did enter the face.

Dean Smith should be looking to muscle himself to the front of the queue for a player with a huge amount of talent, looking to prove to his club that he’s got what it takes to cut it at City.

And Guardiola is clearly a fan of the goalkeeper, as the Nottingham Post report that he called Muric ‘incredible’ as he helped earn City a place in the EFL Cup semi-finals with penalty shoot-out heroics against Leicester.

Some Villa fans may worry about having a young loanee between the sticks but Muric has the ability and the stature to cut it in the top flight – Smith should be on red alert.