Unai Emery confirmed that Ollie Watkins is ready to get interested in the occupation of Arsenal and stay in Aston Vili.
England International was the subject of 60 million pounds reported by Gunner earlier this week, and the news broke only a few hours before the win Wednesday 4-2 over Celtics in the Champions League, the match in which Watkins scored and missed the penalty.
With Jhon Duran on the verge of seal of moving in the amount of £ 64m to AL NASR, the last thing Villa should be to indicate that he also wants him. But Emery says, after talking to him, the 29-year-old is happy at Villa Park.
Emery said, “Yes, he’s happy to stay. We asked him how he feels every day and he is happy here.
“He appreciates a lot that Villa always supports him and helps him when we joined him two years ago as we worked with him and got the best of him.
“We need us now, as if he needed Aston Villa in recent years. I’ve been talking to him a lot, he always adapts to all the circumstances we have and of course some teams who call us interested in players, it’s very good for us and players .
“Some players prefer to leave, and some accept them to stay here and commit with our challenges. One of them is Ollie Watkins.”
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After Midweek’s euphoria, Villa draws attention tomorrow at the Premier League with a local conflict in Wolves.
They will briefly travel to Molineux without the defense duet of Tyrone Mings and Matty Cash.
Mings was injured against West Ham last weekend, while Gotovina lasted only 30 minutes of Celtic game before she ran.
Emery said, “We will train this afternoon, but Matty Cash is not available, he will be, more or less, three or four weeks.
“Tyrone Mings is a small injury, it’s not really bad, but I think he’ll take a few more days to be ready to play.”
