Aston Villa Recruitment Plan 2022-2023

Player Team Similarity %
Philippe
Rommens
Go Ahead
Eagles
92.00%
Aleix Garcia Girona 87.14%
Gerard
Gumbau
James Ward-Prowse
Player Similarity Model Matches
Elche 85.67%
Douglas Luiz Aston Villa 79.15%
Ward-Prowse is no stranger to the EPL and its workings
and with him also being a set piece specialist he would
surely add something different to the squad that Villa
don’t already have. A direct free kick specialist with a
99 th percentile shots from fee kick ranking his
defensive work is what may let him down across the
course of a season as he is a capable of doing a decent
job in central midfield, but he doesn’t really set the
world alight in doing so. He can struggle when his team
do not have the ball and can be found looking over his
shoulder a lot and not looking at play in front of him or
where his midfield partner is next to him which means
they end up having to make more recovery runs due to
him not being as positionally aware as he should be.
He is a proven EPL player with good pedigree and he
should not be discounted as under a more organized
structure he may perform to a higher level.
Note: The player similarity model suggests he is a
similar profile to another potential transfer target Aleix
Garcia.