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Petrov extends Villa contract

20 May 2009 - 11:45:11

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Aston Villa's Bulgarian midfielder Stiliyan Petrov has put pen to paper on a new four-year with the Premier League club.

The 29-year-old joined Villa from Celtic in a £6.5million deal in the summer of 2006 and has gone on to score five goals in 111 appearances for the Midlands club to date.

Meanwhile, Villa boss Martin O'Neill has admitted that he may be forced to try and fend off interest in the likes of Gareth Barry and Ashley Young this summer.

He told the Birmingham Mail: "Will I be fending of inquiries for players? Players are under contract, that is vitally important.

"I would be surprised if some people were not inquiring about our players - big teams - but I am hoping we will be able to withstand that.

"Are Villa no longer a selling club? At the moment we are pretty vibrant, it will be up to us to try and maintain that.

"I just think there is a bit of something about the side here we would like to continue trying to improve."