Aston Villa have made an improved bid of £15 million plus add-ons for Borussia Dortmund's Donyell Malen as they look to sign the Holland international this month.
As Mail Sport revealed this week, Dortmund are willing to negotiate and want a total of £25m from Villa with a minimum of £16.5m upfront.
The 25-year-old forward is keen to play in the Premier League and team up with former teammate Ian Maatsen, the two having played together at Dortmund and through the national team.
Malen can play across the front line, mainly on the right wing, and would give Villa extra pace, depth and quality for Emery in attacking positions.
The West Midlands side are already at centre-forward, with England international Ollie Watkins and hot talent Jhon Duran battling it out for the number nine position.
Villa, after a slight drop, sit ninth in the Premier League but remain fifth in the Champions League and continue their good form following a memorable 1-0 win over Bayern Munich earlier in the season.
Malen, Dutch international, still has an eighteen-month contract at the Westfalenstadion.
Malen started out in Ajax's youth academy before joining Arsenal, where he rose through the youth team to the first-team reckoning and featured in their pre-season tour to Australia in 2017, but was subsequently sold to PSV Eindhoven in August.
He excelled in the Netherlands, scoring 40 league goals in just over 80 appearances before being snapped up by Dortmund.
Malen has scored five goals this season, including one in Dortmund's 3-1 win over Wolfsburg last weekend.
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