Villa agree £9.5m fee for N'Zogbia

Aston Villa have equated a £9.5 million trade with Wigan for winger Charles N'Zogbia and are close to closing the move.

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Wigan had refused Villa's offer of £9 million for the first Newcastle player. But the two groups held farther debates over the weekend and are trusted to have arrived at a compromise diagram of throughout £9.5 million.

New Villa person in accuse Alex McLeish wants a new winger after the departures of Ashley Young and Stewart Downing to Manchester United and Liverpool respectively this summer. He will take none for given after bungling to indication N'Zogbia when Birmingham person in accuse last summer.

N'Zogbia will retain chats over private time spans in the next 24 hours and undergo a medicinal before noting what is looked frontwards to to be a five-year deal.

He would be in all likelihood to have to hold back to unite up with Villa's first-team squad. McLeish's assembly are presently on a pre-season expedition of Hong Hong and N'Zogbia does not have the demanded work visa.

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