Gabby Agbonlahor calls talkSPORT to slam Arsenal's attempt to sign Ollie Watkins

Former Aston Villa prima Gabby Agbonlahor has been near fuming aft Arsenal's £60million bid for Ollie Watkins became nationalist cognition earlier Unai Emery's broadside took connected Celtic successful the Champions League

Gabby Agbonlahor has slammed Arsenal implicit the timing of their £60million bid for Aston Villa prima Ollie Watkins.

Arsenal's determination for Watkins became nationalist cognition soon earlier Villa took connected Celtic successful the Champions League, with a spot successful the last-16 connected the line. Villa went connected to win the lucifer 4-2 and decorativeness eighth successful the revamped league phase, ensuring they person precocious straight to the last-16.

Watkins did diagnostic successful the crippled aft Villa rejected Arsenal's offer, with the England planetary scoring their 3rd goal, but Agbonlahor was not blessed with the Gunners and called successful to talkSPORT arsenic a instrumentality to vent his frustration.

"The audacity of Arsenal connected the eve of the crippled - a monolithic crippled contiguous for Villa against Celtic - to enactment successful a bid of £60million for Ollie Watkins to spell sideways to Arsenal," the erstwhile Villa striker fumed.

"The audacity of this shot club. I'm successful daze here. Villa fans are going to the crippled successful bully spirits and present some of our prima strikers person had bids successful for them. How unsettling is that for some of the players tonight?"

Agbonlahor was past asked astir Watkins antecedently admitting that playing for Arsenal was his "dream", having grown up arsenic a Gunners fan. "Yeah, helium came retired successful 2019 [2020] didn't helium to accidental he'd similar to play for Arsenal 1 day.

"Listen, it's truly unsettling but knowing the situation, determination is zero accidental of them selling Watkins. Duran volition beryllium the 1 they merchantability due to the fact that he's got that broadside to him wherever helium tin beryllium a spot of a handful.

"The manager won't judge that. If they tin get £75million for him, they volition decidedly merchantability Duran. I conscionable don't similar the timing from Arsenal. Who bash they deliberation they are?"

Arsenal are plotting a 2nd bid for Watkins, but Villa stay determined to support clasp of him with chap striker Jhon Duran poised to implicit a determination to Saudi Arabia. Duran is acceptable to acquisition a aesculapian with Al-Nassr aft a woody worthy €77million (£64.5m) positive add-ons was agreed.

"I don't cognize if Jhon Duran is leaving," Villa brag Unai Emery said aft the triumph implicit Celtic. "But if helium is, it is bully quality for america due to the fact that helium is leaving due to the fact that it is bully money. It is for the club, the players and the team. I don't cognize if helium volition permission oregon not. Watkins is our striker."

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