Aston Villa’s flirt with relegation last season kick-started a pointed approach to the transfer window with marquee signings such as making Philippe Coutinho’s loan deal permanent.
Boubacar Kamara and Diego Caros followed soon afterwards and it seemed that Villa were a club determined to go somewhere.
Since then the targets the momentum seems to have been lost with the loan signing of Ludwig Augustinsson the only new arrival in the last six week.
