Carson, Wright-Phillips and Reo-Coker...Villa plan triple swoop

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O'Neill is desperate to land the rising star and is prepared to pay good money for a player Rafa Benitez is happy to ignore.

Carson was in great form at the European Under-21 Championship having spent the season on loan at relegated Charlton.

Villa need a keeper to challenge Thomas Sorensen and have been linked with Bolton's Jussi Jaakelainen as well as Celtic's Polish star Artur Boruc.

The Daily Mirror reports O'Neill would settle for a season-long loan deal but would prefer to buy the 21-year-old and Villa's offer would give the Reds clear profit on the player they bought from Leeds in 2004.

Villa are also ready to step up their pursuit of Chelsea winger Shaun Wright-Phillips.

O'Neill has been given the go-ahead to bid £10m for the England man as well as offer West Ham £8m for skipper Nigel Reo-Coker.

The Villa boss, who tried to get Wright-Phillips on loan last season, admitted: "Shaun according to his agents, would have come.

"We had a loan deal agreed with Chelsea but they decided not to go through with it."