Aston Villa are after F?bio Simpl?cio

It's a Daily Mirror type of day today so don't believe everything you read. According to the football bible we're after Palermo's Brazilian midfielder Simplicio.

Simplicio is someone I've never heard of so I speak with great confidence when I say he started playing football for his local team, S?o Paulo, where he played from 2000 to 2004.

He left the Brazilian team in order to join Italian side Parma on a free transfer. He stayed at Parma for two seasons before joining Palermo for ?5.5m.

As I said, never heard of him and it's the Daily Mirror, so salt and pinch of is probably a good thing to be thinking when you read this.

Oh, he plays in central midfield and is 27 years old.