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Aston Villa: £25,000-a-week player stays put – move turned down

Aston Villa fans will have to put up with the return of Joleon Lescott to the club after the 34-year-old turned down a move to Scottish giants Rangers according to various sources including the Daily Record.

According to the Daily Record, Lescott turned down a move to Glasgow and the Scottish Premier League with Rangers for “family reasons.”

Lescott was in Glasgow and a medical was planned for the former England defender with boss Mark Warburton confident that the experienced defender would sign. The signs of this seemed good when the Scottish Sun said yesterday that Lescott would be giving them an answer either way as to his intentions.

Such had been Mark Warburton’s intent to bring the misfit Villa player onboard at Ibrox, that Rangers’ boss travelled to Manchester for a face-to-face meeting with Lescott (below).

Following Villa’s relegation from English football’s top-tier, Lescott’s £50,000-a-week salary was due for a cut to just £25,000-a-week as the 34-year-old Lescott entered the final year of his contract with the Villains. The Scottish Sun say in another article that “the Midlands club are desperate to offload the defender and are in talks over a severance package,” a move that would expedite his leaving Villa Road.

However, it appears that with Lescott turning down the chance to move away from Villa Park and into Scottish football, the Midlands-based club will have to bear with him a little longer until a mutually agreed deal can be found for both club and player to move in different directions.

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