It is thought Gabriel Agbonlahor, John Carew, Stilian Petrov and Ashley Young could all be in line for new deals.

Villa are offering the new deals either as a reward or because players are down to the last two years of their current deals.

Villa boss Martin O'Neill told the Birmingham Mail: "We are in the throes of things.

"We have been talking to a number of players, players' agents and that is something that we are looking at."