Villa has won the race of young Norwegian defender

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According TBR to it is being said that Aston Villa has won the race to sign Norwegian defender Amundsen Day. Several clubs like Chelsea, RC lens, Monza were intended in the young defender.

Journey of the Norwegian defender Amundsen Day

Ethan Amundsen Day was born at Leeds in England. When he was playing youth football at Fredrikhstad, Copenhagen FC bought him where he made 68 appearances for their U19 team.

He also made three appearances in the Norway U18 team. He was giving excellent performances in each and every game. After that several top-tier clubs like Aston villa became interested to sign him.

It is being said that the player has agreed to join Aston Villa. At first he will train with the U19 team at heath. Then Unai Emery will take a decision whether to include him in the first eleven or to train him more.

Attributes of Ethan

Ethan Amundsen Day is a strong and robust defender with a beautiful left foot. Enai Emery thinks that oneday the young defender will play alongside Aston Villa defenders like Diego Carlos, Konsa, Tyrone Mings.

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Once Copenhagen player recruitment head Koller said “In our eyes, Ethan is a talent at an international level, and he has the potential to go all the way with us if together we take the right steps, we have scouted him for a long time and had him on a training stay at FCK in the summer of 2020, where he showed that he is a great talent with the right skills both on and off the pitch. Ethan is physically strong and has a really good left foot. He has a strong personality who comes with natural leadership qualities and the right mindset to play at a club like ours.”

All details about the transfer

When the player was in U19 Copenhagen team, he drew a lot of interests from all over the world. Aston Villa won the race to sign young Norwegian defender because Chelsea already signed Tosin Adarabioyo and that’s why the Blues became less interested in signing another defender.

Ethan Amundsen’s Copenhagen contract was about to expire at the end of this season. Before that Ethan has agreed to join the Villa park. Soon he will arrive at England from Copenhagen to sign all the documents with Aston Villa.

In 2023-2024 season, Aston Villa finished fourth at the English Premier League. Next year they will be playing Champions league football. Certainly they need a lot of talented players to achieve success in both domestic league and the European tournaments.

The club want to invest in young talents whom the club can nurture to become top professional player.

Future of Aston Villa

Under the direction of Unai Emery the club has improved a lot. After a long time they have got the chance to play in an European tournament. For every club, this is a dream and they have achieved their dream in 2023-2024 season.

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