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title: "Aston Villa: Club plotting huge McNeil bid"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/aston-villa-club-plotting-huge-mcneil-bid/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Charlie Smith"
section: "Aston Villa"
published: "2021-04-30T17:10:54Z"
modified: "2021-04-30T17:10:54Z"
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# Aston Villa: Club plotting huge McNeil bid

**Aston Villa will look to sign Burnley winger Dwight McNeil this summer.**

That’s according to a report from [Football Insider](https://www.footballinsider247.com/aston-villa-set-sights-on-burnley-star-mcneil/), who have been informed by a Villa source that the club have identified the 21-year-old as a top target.

The [report](https://www.footballinsider247.com/aston-villa-set-sights-on-burnley-star-mcneil/) goes on to add that Villa are [‘lining up a huge bid’](https://www.footballinsider247.com/aston-villa-set-sights-on-burnley-star-mcneil/) – five words that appear to be massive in regards to the club’s plans ahead of the 2021/22 season.

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McNeil, on [£47,000-a-week](https://salarysport.com/football/player/dwight-mcneil/) at Turf Moor, still has [over three years remaining on his current Clarets deal](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dwight-mcneil/profil/spieler/584769).

He’s already made over [100](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dwight-mcneil/leistungsdaten/spieler/584769) senior appearances for his current employers, [scoring and providing an assist in the 3-2 win over Dean Smith’s side back in January](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dwight-mcneil/leistungsdaten/spieler/584769).

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### Transfer Tavern take

Reliable reporter [John Percy claimed earlier this month that Villa will look to sign a winger this summer](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/04/02/aston-villa-offer-ezri-konsa-tom-heaton-new-deals-clubs-summer/), and it now seems as if McNeil is their main target for that area of the pitch.

In our view, McNeil could prove to be the sort of addition Villa need to take them to the next level.

He may have only been involved in [23](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dwight-mcneil/leistungsdaten/spieler/584769) goals in his [102](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dwight-mcneil/leistungsdaten/spieler/584769) Burnley appearances, however, he was the [15th-most creative player in the entire league last season after creating 55 big chances](https://theathletic.co.uk/1992209/2020/08/14/dwight-mcneil-transfer-regular-football-leicester-wolves-big-six/).

With plenty of time remaining on his contract and a [Transfermarkt valuation of £19.8m](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dwight-mcneil/profil/spieler/584769), Villa’s ‘huge bid’ they are preparing may have to be a club-record one.

***In other news: Aston Villa outcast a shock target for Premier League giants, find out more [here](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/aston-villa-news/aston-villa-tom-heaton-a-target-for-manchester-united/).***