Letting Jhon Duran go is a risk Aston Villa need to take ...Middle East

Now 21, he’s built on these contradictory yet connected extremes, poles which cannot exist without the other. Calm and chaos, patience and impatience, preternatural genius and a penchant for the idiotic. A collection of fragments and feelings which only makes a painting when you pull back the lens.

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A £57m bid from West Ham was rejected last week, because Villa know he’s worth more. More than 40 clubs have expressed interest, including Arsenal, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain. So why sell at all? For a club of Villa’s ambition, why trade the future for a significant but not irrefusable figure?

Playing Duran alongside Watkins clearly doesn’t work, and he doesn’t want to sit quietly on the bench and wait his turn. That’s understandable, but now neither can live while the other survives.

His shooting statistics also top Watkins’, reflecting an ability to score from anywhere with instinctive invention and brutal power. A higher percentage of his league shots are on target – 48.4 to 42.1 – with more shots per 90 too – 4.37 to 3.21. Duran is also a more prolific finisher, scoring 0.47 goals for every shot on target to Watkins’ 0.33. These are extraordinary numbers.

Playing Duran alongside Watkins clearly doesn’t work (Photo: Getty)

But the question is whether Villa can build a future around him. No one appears to quite trust his stability or maturity, however much they marvel at his training exploits. Duran has spoken about his love/hate relationship with Emery, the frustration and fascination, but he has started just three Premier League games and two in the Champions League all season.

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He was charged with improper conduct by the FA after being sent off for stamping on Fabian Schar against Newcastle United last month. Last summer, chasing a move to West Ham, he crossed his arms in the club’s “Irons” symbol, not his first or last social media mishap.

Somewhere within all this is quite how dangerous for Duran’s career going to Saudi Arabia might be. Perhaps the worst possible step for someone of his psychological profile would be an environment with more money and less pressure, more freedom and lower standards. It’s hard to imagine him being drawn into Cristiano Ronaldo’s orbit, shunning desserts and becoming a high-performance influencer.

There are still plenty of futures in which Duran becomes one of few truly great strikers, such is his unique, instinctive skillset. If Emery sanctions his departure, he could become the man who sold the world, albeit for the world’s current market value.

But that appears to be a risk he needs to take, because Duran wants the world and he wants it now. The question is whether the world wants all of him, every extreme and contradiction, the beautiful and the damned, or just the sanitised highlights, 30-yard screamers and thumping volleys. However much people will try, you can’t have one without the other.

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