George Hemmings

Hemmings is comfortable in more or less every midfield role, capable of sitting deeper to build play or pushing forward to support the attack depending on what a game needs. His ball carrying is a genuine weapon, driving through midfield with control rather than simply moving possession sideways to a safer option. He also picks out teammates with passes that suggest real vision.

That kind of quality tends to draw attention from well beyond the club's own supporters, especially given how little senior football he has actually played so far. Coming through the academy at another club before joining Villa gives his story a slightly different shape to a typical homegrown graduate. Watch how much first team responsibility he is trusted with, because that trust is usually the clearest signal of how highly a young player is rated internally.