Barcelona director of football Mateu Alemany has backed out of a deal to join Aston Villa this summer, sources have confirmed to 90min.
The 60-year-old had been in talks with Villa for a number of weeks and, at the start of May, had agreed to move to England ahead of the 2023/24 season.
Alemany had always insisted he wanted to finish his current work at Barcelona before beginning a new project work with Villa. Even so, the Premier League side believed they had pulled off a major coup in persuading him to link-up with head coach Unai Emery.
