Marcus Rashford joined the Aston Villa Champions League team, but two January signings are lost

Marcus Rashford's loan movement to Aston Villa has forced the club to leave £ 21 million signing Donyell Malen from his team of the Champions League.

UEFA rules allow clubs to register only three winter signings for the qualifying stages of competition and Male could not cut the cut, together with the young defender Andrés García, while Chief Unai Emery chose to add Marco Asensio and the Axel Disasi defender along with Rashford.

But Emery hinted at Malen, a Dutch international who played in the final of the last season champions for Borussia Dortmund, was extremely unhappy.

“It was not easy, conversation with him,” Emery said. 'It is not fair, but the rules pushed us to make the decision and explained why we took it.

'Of course, he accepted, but it is not easy for him to be with us now and not play in the Champions League.

“Today I was training well and, of course, will play luckily for a long time here and hopefully in the Champions League over the next few years.”

Marcus Rashford has been added to the Aston Villa Champions League team after his arrival in the middle of the season in Manchester United

But £ 21 million in January firm Donyell Malen will not be able to play for Villa in the UCL of this season

Villa's manager, Unai Emery, could only add three new players to his UCL team this week

The arrival of Rashford from Manchester United earlier this month ends a saga that lasts almost two months, since the head of United Ruben Amorim froze it.

The 27 -year -old could debut against Tottenham in the FA Cup on Sunday.

Sending a message to all its new signings instead of Rashford Solo, Emery added: 'I want players to think about 70 percent football, 70 percent in life every day.

'Then there is the family, days off but football (70 percent of the time). This is always the message with the players and are responding more or less in this direction. '