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Player training with youth team ahead of Aston Villa transfer: Deal expected in days
ROSS MCCORMACK is training with the Aston Villa youth team and could leave the club this month.
Aston Villa midfielder Ross McCormack is close to joining Fulham
The £12million signing, who was publicly criticised by manager Steve Bruce at the weekend, has continued to train with the youngsters having done so last week.
Villa are expected to sell McCormack to Fulham before next Tuesday’s 11pm transfer deadline.
Bruce blasted McCormack after Villa’s 2-2 draw with Preston having left the forward out of the squad for the game.
Ross McCormack has been training with the Aston Villa youth team
The Aston Villa manager said McCormack missed training and had blamed the electric gates at his house, which the Scotland international said would not open.
Bruce, who replaced Roberto Di Matteo in November, has been critical of Villa's past spending and said at the weekend there had been too much indiscipline at the club.
McCormack joined from Fulham in the summer, in a deal that could rise to £14m, but has scored just three goals in 22 appearances.
Steve Bruce has admitted he was annoyed at Ross McCormack's comments
Bruce said. “I’ve never done this in 20 years but if it repeatedly happens, then I won't put up with it. If I do, then I will have the lunatics running the asylum.
"If I let people do what they want, then we'll have anarchy. You're never going to create a team spirit, if they're looking round giggling at each other because he's not turned up again.
"He said he couldn't jump over a fence that was four feet six inches high."