Transfers are sometimes like dominoes; one falls and then the rest follow. Unfortunately for Borna Sosa, Marcos Acuña’s move to Aston Villa was the domino he needed last summer so his own transfer plans could happen.
Diario de Sevilla cover comments from the Ajax defender today after he revealed Marcos Acuña’s failed move to Aston Villa ultimately changed his destiny too.
The newspaper explain that Acuña ‘had a foot and a half’ at Aston Villa last summer, with the Premier League side, in particular director of football Monchi, pushing to sign him.
He had seen a first bid for the Argentine rejected but ‘counterattacked’ with another, raising the bid and bringing Aston Villa and Sevilla closer to an agreement.
Indeed, there was confidence abound that a deal would be done, so much so that Sevilla’s Victor Orta had already agreed on the arrival of Sosa.
“I wasn’t one hundred percent sure, but I was pretty sure that a change would work,” the newspaper quotes him telling Transfermarkt.
“Really everything was agreed with Sevilla, everything was agreed with me and between the clubs. For a long time, it seemed that I was going to Sevilla, so I didn’t have Ajax so present. But due to Marcos Acuña’s injury, the transfer did not materialise.”
While he was frustrated, so were Sevilla, as they were set to pocket just over €5m from Aston Villa and then spend a little more than that on Sosa, who could have been amortised over several years.
Instead, they were left with the Argentine, who at 32-years-old is unlikely to bring in much this summer given his age and the fact he’s in the final year of his deal also and Sosa ended up at Ajax.
Aston Villa, meanwhile, may be thinking they dodged a bullet, with Acuña’s injuries this season perhaps hinting he’d have been more of a problem than a help had he arrived at Villa Park as Monchi wanted.
