Report: Aston Villa defender Easah Suliman set for January exit

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Aston Villa youngster Easah Suliman is reportedly on the verge of leaving the club according to reports in Portugal.

Record claim the defender is set to leave Villa Park permanently to join Vitória Guimarães.

He supposedly travelled to Portugal on Monday, and an announcement is expected soon.

Suliman joined Villa in 2012 and has been working the academy ever since.

He’s had loan spells with Cheltenham Town, Grimsby, and Dutch club FC Emmen, but couldn’t do enough to warrant a chance with the Villa first-team.

The centre-half – who has made 11 appearances in PL2 this season – is now leaving his boyhood club, and should pen a contract until 2024 with the Liga NOS outfit.

Suliman will hope to now show people the ability that saw Pep Guardiola reportedly become interested in him whilst he was in charge at Bayern Munich (Daily Mail).

TBR’s view – Right move for all

Villa might be struggling defensively right now in the Premier League, but Suliman doesn’t appear to be at the required level to come in and make a difference.

Given the England U20 international didn’t actually play that much during his previous loan spells, it’s now a chance for him to turn over a new leaf.

Hopefully he can become a regular starter for Vitoria, and maybe show Villa they were too hasty letting him go.