Aston Villa bid £51m for Club Brugge's Ordonez as defensive rebuild accelerates

Aston Villa have made a formal £51m plus add-ons approach to Club Brugge for 22-year-old Ecuador centre-back Joel Ordonez, with talks under way before the 1 September deadline. Villa lost 4-0 to Brighton on opening day after selling Ezri Konsa to Arsenal and losing Rogers, Tielemans and Digne. An £18m bid for Southampton's Harwood-Bellis was already rejected.