Reid top of O’Leary’s shopping list

ASTON VILLA manager David O’Leary has presented chairman Doug Ellis with a wish-list of players as he looks to strengthen his squad in the January transfer window - with Nottingham Forest’s Republic of Ireland winger Andy Reid a top target.

O’Leary believes Villa have to bring in five quality players to bolster one of the smallest squads in the Premiership if they are “to try to move onto the next level.”

But he is realistic enough to realise that finances would only allow him to sign a couple of players when the window reopens in just over a month.