Unai Emery looks set to face a big decision over the future of the Aston Villa defender
Kaine Kesler-Hayden(Image: Photo by Catherine Ivill – AMA/Getty Images)
Preston North End manager Paul Heckingbottom has confirmed his plan to talk to Aston Villa over Kaine Kesler-Hayden in the summer.
The young defender has impressed on loan at the Championship club from Villa this season, playing in 40 of their 42 league matches.
He is one of four players the Deepdale club have on loan this season and Heckingbottom has made it clear they are in his thinking ahead of the summer transfer window.
“Yeah, definitely,” he said. “We’ll be in touch with them and definitely see.
“Like I said, you add into it the players whose contracts are up, the loans going back… we’ve got a lot of spaces to fill. First and foremost, we know the people who are in the building.
“So, whether that’s retaining our own, speaking about loan players, we know them really well… we know what we’re going to do with them.
“But, as I said, we want to improve all the time and if we continue to do what we’re doing, we’ll just get the same things.
“So, we have to be brave and aggressive and go and get the names that I’ve said. And if we can’t, then we just keep banging and banging and being really aggressive.”
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