Championship side Fulham are looking to make a move for Aston Villa left-back Joe Bennett, according to the Mirror.

Bennett is a target Kit Symons' Fulham
Bennett is a target Kit Symons' Fulham

The 25-year-old had joined Villa from Middlesbrough in the summer of 2012 for a fee of around £3 million, but only made a handful of 30 appearances during his time at Villa park.

He spent the season on loan at Brighton this year as they looked to fill their empty left- back role (now replaced by Gaetan Bong) and made 41 appearances during his stay, but wasn't overly impressive.

Lowton's been listed by Villa boss Tim Sherwood this summer as surplus to requirements along with Aly Cissokho and Matthew Lowton, who's already moved on to Fulham's Championship rival's Burnley.

Fulham boss Kit Symons is after a new left back after Kostas Stafylidis returned to Bayer Leverkusen following an unsuccessful loan spell, and wants to bring in competition for academy product Sean Kavanagh this summer.

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