Steve Bruce has launched a bid to sign Liverpool’s Ben Woodburn on loan, with the Wales international set to be withdrawn from Jurgen Klopp’s training camp in France.

Aston Villa are in talks with Liverpool over a deal to take Woodburn for the season after a transfer embargo on the Midlands club was lifted.

Telegraph Sport can reveal that Villa had been operating under an embargo imposed by the Football League amid their cash crisis under former chairman Dr Tony Xia.

But new Villa owners Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens have since provided the EFL with assurances over future funding and the Championship club are now free to make new signings this week.

Villa have made contact with Liverpool over a loan deal for Woodburn, the 18-year-old attacker, and are understood to be the favourites to sign him.

Liverpool fly out to a training camp in Evian on Monday but Woodburn is not travelling with the squad and his future will be decided before the weekend.