Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Aston Villa keen on former Chelsea youth player Tore

Aston Villa are lining up a January move for Besiktas winger Gokhan Tore, according to the Metro.

The twenty-three year old has impressed since moving to the Istanbul side, scoring fourteen goals in eighty-three appearances in all competitions.

Prior to his move to Turkey, Tore spent a season with Hamburg and then Rubin Kazan while he spent two years of his youth career in England with Chelsea.

During his time with the now Premier League champions, he was part of the squads that won the FA Youth Cup in 2010 and the Premier Reserve League a year later while internationally he has been capped twenty-two times for Turkey.

Villa signed a number of players in the summer, but currently sit in the relegation zone having taken just four points from their opening seven games.

Tim Sherwood’s side host Aston Villa on Saturday afternoon, with the home win priced at 7/5.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Deke Hardman


Freelance football writer with a love of the game that goes back to the mid nineties when both his beloved Nottingham Forest and England had genuine hope of acheiving some level of success. A regular contributor to both SoccerNews.com and FreeBetting.com, Deke also dabbles in music journalism with his heart and head still stuck in the latter years of the twentieth century.

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