da marjack bet： Aston Villa swerved a potentially catastrophic transfer blunder in the summer by not signing Gonzalo Higuain.
What was the story?
da blaze casino： Reports from Italy claimed that Villa, along with fellow Premier League side West Ham, were both interested in luring him away from Juventus, with the striker having fallen out of favour in Turin following the arrival of new manager, Andrea Pirlo.
In the end, the Argentine joined David Beckham’s MLS franchise, Inter Miami, with Villa of course finding their new striker in Brentford’s Ollie Watkins.
Expensive disaster for Dean Smith
With reports claiming that Higuain is earning around £100k-a-week at his new club out in the USA, you can only imagine what handing out that kind of contract to a player who’ll turn 33 later this year would have gone down at Villa Park.
Yes, the former Real Madrid and Juventus star would have come with a fearsome reputation as a goal-scorer at the highest level of European football – Chelsea’s Willian even called him a “special player” – but his experience at Stamford Bridge just went to show that he may not have cut it in the Premier League.
Higuain managed just five goals in 18 games across all competitions, that despite working under a manager he had already played for before in Maurizio Sarri.
He would have been after just another pay-cheque before calling it quits, and with Dean Smith surely eager to build an even stronger team-first mentality at the club, it’s a move that simply wouldn’t have made sense.