Nantes president president Waldemar Kita admits Aston Villa are getting Jordan Veretout on the cheap.

Kita has called himself a "pillock" for allowing Veretout, 22, to join Villa for £3.5m less than he could have pocketed from a switch to Leicester City.

"He has made his choice, and I am going to go in his direction," Kita told L'Equipe. "They (Aston Villa) are haggling on certain details. They need to be careful because if they continue to haggle they might lose the player from right under their noses.

"They have until this evening to take a decision. I'm set to lose €5m (by taking Villa's deal and not Leicester's). I am a pillock.

"I would have never thought I would have done anything other than try to raise the price, but I am not going to go against the boy.

"He is a boy who has never done us wrong, who played the game right until the end, contrary to others, who did not sulk."