It has been a calm end to a frantic summer for Aston Villa, with no arrivals on a quiet Transfer Deadline Day. Unai Emery and Monchi did the majority of their Aston Villa squad building early in the summer, with seven players brought into Villa Park this transfer window. In an ideal world, Emery would have liked to see a right-sided defender and a Moussa Diaby replacement signed, but the pursuit of versatile Feyenoord defender Lutsharel Geertuida proved unsuccessful and the fact Jhon Duran has stayed put helps fill the Diaby void. With nothing significant happening on Deadline Day to distract …
