Where are they now? The 12 players Tim Sherwood has signed for Aston Villa

Aston Villa endured a difficult season in 2015-16, suffering their first ever relegation from the Premier League, winning just three games and their fans witnessing shocking defeats including a 6-0 loss to Liverpool.

Under Tim Sherwood and then Remi Garde, the club was a chaotic mess, despite the squad boasting a mix of experience and promising youngsters, including a young Jack Grealish.

The signings the club made in the summer of 2015 echoed this mix, perhaps underscoring the lack of a clear strategy, and lost stars Christian Benteke and Fabian Delph to Liverpool and Manchester City .

Nevertheless, some of the players signed that season turned out to have very decent careers elsewhere.

Jordan Ayew

Jordan Ayew came to Villa Park from Lorient for £10.8m with plenty of experience for a 23-year-old, having previously played in the Champions League with Marseille, and was expected to be a source of goals for replace Benteke.

Despite just seven goals in all competitions, he finished the season as Villa's top scorer and stayed at the club for a further six months after relegation before moving to Swansea, where he would be relegated again.< /p>

He is now in his fourth season at Crystal Palace, where he has been something of an enigma. Often brilliant and maddeningly frustrating in the same acting passage.

Matija Sarkic

Sarkic is a full Montenegrin international having won five caps since making his debut in 2019, but he was actually born in Grimsby.

After moving to Anderlecht, he joined Villa in 2015 aged 18. After four loans and no first-team appearances, he joined Wolves in 2020. He is currently on the sidelines in Bruno Lage's squad after loans at Shrewsbury and Birmingham.

Jordan Veretout

Signed from Nantes for a fee of £9m, Veretout had spells at Saint-Etienne and Fiorentina before moving for £21m to Roma. He's even been impressed enough to get a few caps in France over the past two years.

He lifted the UEFA Conference League trophy as a key part of José Mourinho's side and has since returned to France with Marseille, who are doing well to keep pace with PSG in these first weeks of the season.

Idrissa Gueye

Villa essentially did a wagon race across France in the summer of 2015 - and the best of the new French-speaking contingent was undoubtedly Gueye.

He became one of Villa's best players, second in the league behind N'Golo Kante in tackles and interceptions, and was thus transferred to Everton. After three good seasons on Merseyside, Gueye made a big money move to PSG, winning six trophies in three years before returning to Goodison Park.

Jose Angel Crespo

No connection to Argentine great Hernan, Jose Angel is a Spanish full-back who has had remarkably little impact in the Midlands.

He played twice for Villa before being loaned to Rayo Vallecano in January. At the end of the season, he moved permanently to PAOK and has since left Greece for Cyprus with APOEL. Still at 35.

Scott Sinclair

Scott Sinclair spent the previous six months on loan at Villa, where he earned himself a £3million permanent move. However, he remained unimpressive throughout the season and moved on to Celtic, where he returned to his old form for a few trophy-laden years.

He is now a free agent, having been released by Preston after three years at Deepdale.

Adama Traore

It was Aston Villa who first brought the high-heeled Spaniard to England from Barcelona, ​​and after a stint at Middlesborough he made a name for himself at Wolves, even managing to enter the league. Spain squad for Euro 2020.< /p>

After his loan spell at his boyhood club was not made permanent, he is now back at Wolves but somewhat out of favor. It looks like his career is at a crossroads and he needs a new forever home to rekindle his undeniable spark.

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