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title: "Why Aston Villa are considering axing Danny Ings"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Crippy Cooke"
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published: "2022-05-25T13:01:23Z"
modified: "2022-05-25T13:01:24Z"
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# Why Aston Villa are considering axing Danny Ings

Danny Ings scored seven goals with six assists in [30 Premier League games](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/danny-ings/leistungsdaten/spieler/134294) for Aston Villa last season. The 29-year-old had a hand in one goal every 2.3 league outings on average which sounds like a good return, but the [£26.5m](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/danny-ings/transfers/spieler/134294) signing endured droughts in his debut campaign that raise uncertainty over his future at Villa Park.

Ings started only 58% of Villa’s league games and was substituted on or substituted off 23 times from his 30 appearances (76%). The England international amassed 1905 minutes from a possible 3420 (55.6%), so he missed a lot of the season. And with how [ruthless Steven Gerrard was with Matt Targett](https://readastonvilla.com/2022/03/17/kevin-phillips-says-matt-targett-was-treated-unfairly-by-steven-gerrard/), Ings isn’t guaranteed to stay this summer.

[Football Insider](https://www.footballinsider247.com/sources-aston-villa-want-to-sign-a-list-striker-and-willing-to-sell-danny-ings-to-part-fund-deal/) believe Villa want to sign a prolific striker and could sell Ings to fund the move. It would be a big call axing a player just one year after he was signed, but Ings wasn’t a Gerrard signing and has really struggled for consistency. He scored just three goals in the last four months of the season (16 PL games) and managed only [nine shots on target](https://fbref.com/en/players/07802f7f/matchlogs/2021-2022/summary/Danny-Ings-Match-Logs) since early-January.

Ings started just four of Villa’s last 10 league games too, so it’s clear he doesn’t have his manager’s trust.

***[In other news, Aston Villa’s shift in transfer policy is short-termist](https://readastonvilla.com/2022/05/25/aston-villas-shift-in-transfer-policy-is-short-termist/)***