Falkirk Football Club has signed Ben Broggio on loan from Aston Villa. The 19-year-old wide player joins Falkirk for the remainder of the season. Ben Broggio's winter-window move to Scottish Premiership side Falkirk for the rest of this season came together in a more curious fashion. Typically, Villa's captain John McGinn makes a big effort to be approachable for the club's young players. When they first arrive or sign a new contract to extend their stay, he will make a point of congratulating them and introducing himself to their family. The Scotland midfielder has created a group chat with his young countrymen at Villa, namely Aidan Borland and Rory Wilson, so they feel he is accessible and can help them with things like sorting out match tickets. This has led to McGinn developing a good relationship with many of Villa's academy talents promoted to train with the first-team squad under Unai Emery. That group includes Broggio, who made his senior debut as a late substitute in last season's Carabao Cup tie against Wycombe Wanderers and has since been in Premier League and Europa League matchday squads. So when, as it would transpire, McGinn's elder brother Stephen, a coach at Falkirk, asked for his thoughts on the teenager, he gave positive assessments. The Scottish club needed a wide player and only had a handful of days left in the winter window to sign one. McGinn pushed for Broggio to move to Scotland not only to help his brother and Falkirk, but because he is an advocate of Scottish football and believes the more young English prospects do well on loan there, the more attractive a proposition it would be for Villa — and other Premier League sides — to send their best prospects north of the border on similar temporary deals. The Villa skipper's broader question was whether Broggio was better served staying within Emery's environment and, possibly, offering senior-squad depth in the second half of the season. Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba, a 19-year-old forward who trained with Thomas Tuchel's England squad during the recent international break, was in a similar predicament. He and Broggio had received interest from Championship clubs. Jimoh-Aloba ended up being loaned to neighbours West Bromwich Albion in that division but Broggio, assisted by McGinn, flew to Scotland and signed for Falkirk on deadline day in early February, three days after turning 19. Broggio learning his senior-football trade in the top flight in Scotland was a very different proposition to joining a side in England's second tier. The Scottish Premiership presents a breadth of quality, with its lower-level clubs considered the equivalent of EFL teams but Celtic and Rangers playing regularly in the European competitions. Subsequently, Broggio would be exposed to a range of challenges and conditions: from tough, gritty fixtures on artificial surfaces to playing in front of 60,000 fans at a packed Celtic Park (where Falkirk