It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he left in this transfer window.
I'm thinking similar having seen Unai's press conference. A real knife in the back if he wants to leave now, not that we have to sell him now but having our best season in years and to have a key player more focused on moving than winning games and picking up trophies with Villa this season. Hopefully Unai is just pissed off with the long list of injuries.
Hopefully. But we’ve seen this before both in general terms with AV and with Martinez not being available as linked with a move away and his head ‘not being right to play.’ To be honest, I adored the bloke, but since the summer, it’s very much been a case of waiting for the inevitable and him being just another, albeit good, player that will go probably having tarnished his cred.