Aston Villa manager Dean Smith has admitted that he will miss Yannick Bolasie, who left the club in order to focus on improving, according to a report on the Birmingham Mail.
The winger decided to cut short his season-long loan deal with the Championship club and has returned to Everton.
Bolasie failed to make a huge impact at Villa Park and although there were flashes of his quality on display, he found it hard to perform well consistently.
When speaking about the 29-year-old. Smith said:
I spoke to Yannick after the game on Saturday and again on Sunday, he feels as though he’s a little bit off where he wanted to be.
He probably needed a little bit more sprint work and felt that it was in his best interests to go back to Everton.
He’s a great lad and he’s created some assists for us but probably didn’t impact the games over 90 minutes as much as he would have liked, and we all would have liked.
We must remember that he came here after an ACL operation and was looking to regain his fitness, which he’s got now, and he’s building up his body and managing his body to get ready for games.
We wish him well for the future but we have to move on to our future now.
Villa are currently in 13th place in the table and will be hoping for a strong few months as they hope to push for a playoff place.
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