A report claims Sheffield Wednesday hope to agree a fee and speak to the Aston Villa player on Tuesday.

Sheffield Wednesday are ‘making a shock move’ for Aston Villa right-back Alan Hutton, The Sun reports [4 July, page 51].

It is claimed the Owls hope to agree a fee with the Villans and speak to the player today [Tuesday].

Aston Villa’s Alan Hutton

Hutton recently had his Villa Park contract extended by 12 months until June 2018, however, Steve Bruce’s side have been linked with alternatives in his position.

Even so, convincing Aston Villa to sell to a likely promotion rival could prove difficult for Wednesday, as was the case when the Owls tried, unsuccessfully, to sign Villans left-back Joe Bennett a year ago.

Bennett was keen on a return to Hillsborough, where he had spent the second half of the 2015-16 season on loan, but the move was blocked by Villa chairman Tony Xia, who promptly sold him to Cardiff City instead.

Hutton would be the latest in a long line of past-and-present Scotland internationals in Carlos Carvalhal’s side, after Ross Wallace, Barry Bannan, Steven Fletcher, Jordan Rhodes and new Owls recruit George Boyd.

Sheffield Wednesday’s George Boyd

Boyd was reportedly wanted by Villa, having worked under Bruce at Hull City.

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