Aston Villa manager Dean Smith is excited by the potential of teenage striker Louie Barry and is confident the new signing will be a hit at the club. Although Smith declined to suggest how close Barry is to working with the first team, he has no doubt the boyhood Villa fan will one day become a star. “Louie is an academy signing, first and foremost, but he is one with an awful lot of potential,” Smith said. “Without a shadow of a doubt he has a future here.”Outcast striker Scott Hogan, meanwhile, again stands at another crossroads in his career. Asked as to what the future holds for Hogan, Smith said: “I don’t know.

Source: Express January 27, 2020 22:30 UTC