Photo credits to cfletcher86

This Aston Villa squad list was taken from the official Premier League website.

Yes English or Welsh
No Import

1 Agbonlahor, Gabriel Yes
2 Albrighton, Marc Kevin Yes
3 Bannan, Barry No
4 Bent, Darren Ashley Yes
5 Beye, Habib No
6 Clark, Ciaran Yes
7 Collins, James Michael Yes
8 Cuellar Jimenez, Carlos Javier No
9 Delph, Fabian Yes
10 Dunne, Richard Patrick Yes
11 Given, Shay John James Yes
12 Guzan, Bradley Edwin No
13 Herd, Christopher Yes
14 Heskey, Emile William Ivanhoe Yes
15 Ireland, Stephen James Yes
16 Lichaj, Eric Joseph Yes
17 Lowry, Shane Thomas Yes
18 Marshall, Andrew John Yes
19 Petrov, Stiliyian Alyoshev No
20 Warnock, Stephen Yes
21 N'Zogbia, Charles Yes
22 Jenas, Jermaine Anthony Yes
23 Hutton, Alan No

Aston Villa Under 21 players (Contract and Scholars)
Baker, Nathan Luke
Barrett, Calum Alastair
Barton, Joshua
Bateman, Liam Vere
Bryan, Richard
Burke, Graham Dylan
Caira, Reece
Cameron, Courtney Lee
Carruthers, Samir Badre
Coton, Matthew James
Darkin, Darious Paul
Delete, Z
Delfouneso, Nathan
Devine, Daniel Patrick
Drennan, Michael Joseph
Eminoglu, Umit
Gardner, Gary
Graham, Jordan
Hill, Craig Dennis
Jenkins, Sebastian Stephen
Johnson, Daniel Anthony
Kinsella, Lewis
Lampkin, Jason Severiano
Lewis, Bradley
Melvin, Malcolm Graham
Nelson, Michael
Nelson-Addy, Ebby
Parish, Elliott Charles
Robinson, Callum Jack
Serrano De La Cruz Vidal, Juan Jose
Siegrist, Benjamin Kevin
Steiber, Andras
Stevenson, Oliver
Taylor, Connor
Ward, Charles Patrick
Watkins, Mason Bradley
Watkins, Bradley
Webb, Joshua John
Weimann, Andreas
Williams, Daniel Ashley
Williams, Derrick

For all the questions regarding the strength in depth of the current Aston Villa squad, there hasn't been a great deal of discussion, so far as I've seen, about the captaincy. In truth, the role of the captain is often overblown, and it has to be said that the other highly paid professional athletes on the pitch shouldn't need any motivation or encouragement from a colleague, but a great leader can still be worth his weight in gold.

I've covered the Premier League 25-man rules several times since it first cropped up so I won't dwell on the details in this post. If you recall, last summer we named 22 players within our maximum of 25 players 21 years old or over on January 1st 2010 without any problems with the quota of "home grown" players.