Because if they had shown ambition even before hiring Emery – the previous season’s flagship signing was Philippe Coutinho, like Rashford a big name on big wages and a cautionary tale now – then he ...

His reputation has been damaged by the past 12 months at United, where he has gone from being the club’s poster boy and homegrown ... options such as Donyell Malen, Jacob Ramsey, Leon Bailey ...

Morgan Rogers has been both Villa’s finest winger and No 10 this season, but the arrivals of Rashford, Donyell Malen and Marco Asensio should allow the former Middlesbrough man to take a central ...

Marcus Rashford was there at the start of the Unai Emery project. He played in the Spaniard’s first two games at Aston Villa. Not for Aston Villa, admittedly: he was part of the Manchester United side ...

Image: Donyell Malen has been left out of Aston Villa's Champions League squad but he could still help them in the Premier League Perhaps the only Aston Villa player to come out with any credit in ...

The Dutch forward was sold an ambitious project by Unai Emery, with the cachet of Champions League football carrying ...

Donyell Malen has a point to prove after being left out of Aston Villa’s Champions League squad for the knockout rounds. It would have come as a devastating blow for the 26-year-old to hear that ...