Season #2 | 1880-81 | Games #3 - #6
133 Seasons, 33 Managers, 980 Players, 5,654 Matches, Only One Aston Villa
Unused
Appearances:
0
Starts:
0
Goals:
0
Seasons:
1
Source: AVFC.co.uk/news/2019/01/14/michael-tait-signs-first-professional-contract/
Source: AVFC.co.uk/news/2019/01/14/michael-tait-signs-first-professional-contract/
Michael Tait
Position
Midfielder
From
2020-21
To
2020-21
IMAGE CREDIT
Michael Moran Tait
Birth Date
Monday, 29 January 2001
Birth Place
Birmingham, West Midlands
Birth Country
England
Villa Youth
2018-19 Aston Villa Under 18s |
2019-21 Aston Villa Under 23s |
From
Transfer in
Youth Team
From
For
Free
On
Monday, 1 July 2019
Previous Clubs
Youth Team
Loans Out
None
Transfer Out
To
Unattached
For
Released
On
Monday, 31 May 2021
Subsequent Clubs
2021- Tamworth |
2021-22 (L) Stafford Rangers |
Source: AVFC.co.uk/news/2019/01/14/michael-tait-signs-first-professional-contract/
Source: AVFC.co.uk/news/2019/01/14/michael-tait-signs-first-professional-contract/
Villa Career
Seasons Active, Fee, Starts (Sub) | Goals |
2021 Aston Villa, Free, 0 (0) | 0 |
STARTS
SUBS
GOALS
Played Under
Mark Delaney |
First Squad Appearance
Friday, 8 January 2021
Debut Appearance
Unused
Liverpool (h), FA Cup
DEBUT
First Goal
Did not play
Final Appearance
Unused
Liverpool (h), FA Cup
FINAL
Final Squad Appearance
Friday, 8 January 2021
Honours
Played for the Villa
Height
(5 ft 8 in) 1.77 m
Foot
Right
International Team
Not selected
Michael Tait
Michael Tait, a midfielder, appeared as an unused substitute on one occasion during Villa’s 2020-21 FA Cup campaign.
Michael was born on 29 January 2001 and signed professional forms with Villa in July 2019 aged 18.
Tait was appointed to Sean Verity’s Under 18 squad before being promoted to Mark Delaney’s Under 23 squad from the 2019-20 season. Delaney then promoted Tait to the first team squad aged 19 for the 1-4 FA Cup defeat to Liverpool on Friday, 8 January 2021. That would prove to be Sohna’s only first team squad appearance for the club.
Tait was part of the youngest ever squad to be named by Villa for a professional game - aged 18.30 years on average - after the first team squad was forced into isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic which had seen a raft of players and staff testing positive for the virus in the week preceding the game.
Tait made his unused substitute appearance under caretaker manager Mark Delaney after Villa boss Dean Smith was required to join the first team in isolation.
It was announced in April 2021 that Tait would be released by the club at the end of the 2020-21 season. Tait’s release followed a ‘technical board meeting’ on March 16 2021 between Academy Manager Mark Harrison, Dean Smith, Mark Delaney, Chief Executive Christian Purslow and Sporting Director Johan Lange against a back drop of a significant scale-up in the club’s academy operations with a view to developing a continuing flow of first team talent over the coming decade.