Aston Villa endured a tough season in 2015-16, suffering their first-ever relegation from the Premier League, winning only three games and their fans had to witness some shocking defeats including a 6-0 loss to Liverpool.
Under the management of Tim Sherwood, and later Remi Garde, the club was a chaotic mess, despite the squad possessing a mixture of experience and promising youth including a young Jack Grealish.
The signings the club made in the summer of 2015 echoed this mixture, possibly highlighting the lack of a clear strategy, and lost stars Christian Benteke and Fabian Delph to Liverpool and Manchester City.
Nevertheless, some of the players who were brought in that season turned out to have very decent careers elsewhere.
Jordan Ayew
Jordan Ayew came to Villa Park from Lorient for £10.8million 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 to replace Benteke.
Despite only netting seven times in all competitions, he ended the season as Villa’s top scorer, and stayed at the club for a further six months after relegation before moving on to Swansea, where he would be relegated again.
He’s now into his fourth season at Crystal Palace, where he’s been something of an enigma. Often brilliant and maddeningly frustrating in the same passage of play.
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Crystal Palace 1-1 West Ham United
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Matija Sarkic
Sarkic is a full Montenegro international having won five caps since his debut in 2019, but he was actually born in Grimsby.
After coming through at Anderlecht, he joined Villa in 2015 aged 18. After four loans and no first-team appearances, he joined Wolves in 2020. He’s currently on the fringes of Bruno Lage’s squad after loans away to Shrewsbury and Birmingham.
Jordan Veretout
Signed from Nantes for a £9million fee, Veretout had spells at Saint-Etienne and Fiorentina before making a £21million move to Roma. He’s even impressed enough to get a few France caps over the past couple of years.
He lifted the UEFA Conference League trophy as a key part of Jose Mourinho’s side and has since returned to France with Marseille, who are doing well to keep the pace with PSG in these early weeks of the season.
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