It will be a frenzied final week of the transfer window at Aston Villa.
Defender Ezri Konsa will be the fourth high-profile exit after Morgan Rogers, Youri Tielemans and Lucas Digne left this summer, once his £51m move to Arsenal is officially confirmed.
Villa still need to find a solution for Emi Martinez after his failed move to Juventus while Al-Hilal remain interested in Ollie Watkins.
Should the duo leave before the 1 September transfer deadline - and Villa want to keep Watkins - then six of the starting XI which won the Europa League in May will have left.
A summer of change was expected but it is the biggest transition of the squad since VIlla returned to the Premier League in 2019.
Unai Emery is, at least, a constant - especially with nine new managers starting in the Premier League this weekend.
He is the second longest serving manager in the Premier League, behind Arsenal's Mikel Arteta, and remains Villa's biggest strength, having joined in November 2022.
But there will be questions to answer and fans' fears to ease when he faces the media at the club's Bodymoor Heath training ground this afternoon.
Villa go to Brighton on Sunday and having been picked off by rivals this summer, Emery and Villa have less than two weeks to plug the growing gaps in the squad.
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