Southampton Set £30 Million Price Tag For Bella-Kotchap

There will be a few players leaving St Mary's this summer and a few of them will be in demand, one of those players is Armel Bella-Kotchap who after playing in the World Cup for Germany is hot property.

With the transfer window due to open on Wednesday 14th June, the rumour mill is starting to turn and Talksport are saying that latest to look at Bella-Kotchap are Aston Villa.

Their report states that Bella-Kotchap is being chased by clubs in both Germany & Italy and that Saints are happy to let him go as long as their asking price of £30 million is met.

If Saints can get that for the central defender then they will be quite happy as it represents a big profit on the £9 million they paid Bochum for his services last summer.

Saints supporters will consider that the German international had a mixed time in the Premier League, although he was undoubtably a class act on his day, there were questions over his shoulder which saw him miss games through dislocation on two occasions.

There was also a question over his attitude in the eyes of the Southampton faithful who felt his performance levels dropped and by the end of the season he seemed to lack motivation.

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