people have posted that Defour has third party ownership, to get everyone who owns a piece of him paid off and all the agents backers and other filth leeching off the game - Villa would have to lay out a huge whack.
not sure about wages but i can't imagine he would be cheap either.
Also there are bigger clubs who would be interested, ones that probably play a decent style of football and not suffering PR disasters currently.
if you were a player right now would you want to come to us for anything less than a huge payday?
Most of us including me still view this great club like we did growing up, a club that will always have major ups and downs but always tries to play decent football and on it's day can compete with most clubs and always looked good in the cup competitions.
Now we are a bottom feeding club, grounded by poor management at all levels, average playing staff and decision after decision that keeps damaging the club and the fans.
I thought the Lambert era would bring hope to the club, make us plucky underdogs who tried to play good football and gave our all, yet all I now see is a club at odds with how football should be played and how a club should be run.