Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill is down-playing recent comments from Luke Moore's agent Steve Kutner that the player wants to leave after rejecting a new contract.

Villa have taken up a year's option on Moore's current deal which means he will be with Villa until the summer of 2009.

O'Neill said: "I never get overly excited by what agents say.

"Agents can say what they want and, generally speaking, when you ask an agent why they said something, they say they didn't say something."