Aston Villa Transfer Rumours

23 Jul 2026 09:30:51
I think we all agreed come the end of the season the squad needed strengthening, however maybe not in the way it has transpired, i.e. Tielemans going and Onana’s ACL injury. Gomes can replace Onana’s bite in the midfield. Garnacho will provide pace out wide and Manzambi will be the box-to-box midfielder, so that’s all fine.

However, both Tielemans and Rogers had the ability to take a ball in tight spaces, on the half turn and drive onto the opposition’s back four. I’m not sure any of the signings to date tick that box, nor do any of the players we are being linked with. I wonder if Emery is going to tinker with how we play next season?

22 Jul 2026 19:39:31
I’m actually feeling pretty confident about the Garnacho deal.
Let’s be honest, Man Utd and Chelsea have been basket case clubs for a couple of seasons and deflecting the issues they clearly have behind the scenes on to young footballers is the easiest way of apportioning blame.


Not saying these young lads are totally blameless but just look at those clubs and the managers they’ve had recently.
UTV !!

21 Jul 2026 19:20:56
Rumoured Villa are looking to sign Garnacho on loan.
Anyone got comments on this?

21 Jul 2026 20:14:32
Wouldn't touch him with a barge pool, rather have Grealish back with Rafeal Leao.

21 Jul 2026 20:24:10
Not for me. I'm a bit disappointed, to be honest. I had a great feeling about this window, but I'm starting to worry who we spend our money on.

21 Jul 2026 20:33:17
You dare to doubt Emery?

21 Jul 2026 20:42:43
Hold your horsies, fellas... Summerville was Roma's top target but off to Saudi for £68M, Garnacho wants to go to Roma & they were after him too, so that's 1 that could happen. You know what? The Grealish 1 isn't a bad idea, I'd say it would be his dream to play for Villa in the Champions League, and, bear in mind, he hasn't been coached by Unai.

Could be a masterstroke. 🤔

UTV.

21 Jul 2026 21:56:04
Fingers crossed for him to go to Roma. 🤞 Not sure about Grealish, I think we need to look forward. Tammy didn't work in the slightest. Give me young and hungry with potential.

21 Jul 2026 22:28:56
I think we are going to have to accept the Garnacho deal, even though most of us on here would rather we looked elsewhere, but Unai must see something the rest of us don't. In terms of a forward, it looks like we favour Jackson, but are balking at the fee, which, if as quoted, is £60 million, then absolutely we should look elsewhere.

I quite liked the look of Balogun at the WC, and I'm sure he would be available at a lower price.

21 Jul 2026 23:20:31
He looked good. Didn't know much about him, so I had a Google. Arsenal sold him for 40 million, probably wouldn't come too cheap, I'm betting. Do you really see us buying another striker?

21 Jul 2026 23:52:55
I do. I'm not sure Emery sees Abraham giving him the same workrate as Watkins or having the same ability to hold onto the ball and bring others into play. So I wouldn't be at all surprised if he was sold during the window.

22 Jul 2026 06:43:08
I miss those days when a No9 just had to score goals. It seems to work with Citeh & Haaland, though. Maybe, with all these fresh legs in midfield, Tammy would thrive and be Jonny on the spot. Goals win games, don't they?

UTV.

22 Jul 2026 16:43:33
How about a free transfer from Monaco? He played 4 games for Senegal at the World Cup, and he's got 61 caps! He looks the type that Unai Emery loves. He's versatile on the right and can play right back, right midfield and right wing. He looks a right live wire, he will take on players and beat them, he's real quick and tenacious, a real team player and only 27.


After what I saw of him, he would be a perfect fit for us, cover for a couple of players but something different, but a good enough ball player. Think a vastly better Leon Bailey? Don't believe me, watch a couple of the Senegal matches WC26.

22 Jul 2026 23:04:29
Hey, Long Time Fan, which player do you mean?

20 Jul 2026 12:30:45
Spoke to my Chelsea mates yesterday who were absolutely loving the fact they had landed Rogers. A couple of rumours linking us with a couple of their players. I assumed it was Jackson and Garnacho; however, whilst we are interested in Garnacho, we won’t be pursuing Jackson because we won’t pay north of £60 million which is the fee Chelsea are looking for. Re: Garnacho apparently we are pushing hard to land him and have offered him more money than he is on at Chelsea, but he is keeping his options open as he would rather play in Spain/Italy.

The other player we are allegedly interested in is Trevoh Chalobah and my mates think this is a more likely deal as the fee is circa £30 million. I think we have been linked with Chalobah before. I wonder if this is insurance if either Mings or Konsa is sold. It will be interesting to see if they are as right on this one. With regards Garnacho, I sincerely hope not!!

20 Jul 2026 13:56:49
I find it hard to believe we would sell either Konsa or Watkins after making the sales we have. I think, after Roger's big fee, we will only sell if it's players Emery wants to move. It wouldn't make sense gutting the team any more than we need to.
The Garnacho story doesn't make much sense either, overpaying a player with a bad attitude that doesn't want to go to Villa, who hasn't been great anywhere he's been, while player wages are our biggest pain point? To me it feels like a huge mistake, just like some of the decisions made by Monchi that got him sacked.


Chelsea have overspent, I reckon, they will be desperate to move some wages off their books. Now is the time to pull their pants down and not blow big chunks of our profit on below average players who haven't cut it anywhere they went.
Garnacho, Jackson, Chalobah, I have to say I'd be disgusted if we sign any of them and it'll take the shine off the good business we have already done.

20 Jul 2026 15:05:42
Re Garnacho, I think he is a talented player, but as you say his attitude is poor. Emery must believe he can change that side of him if he is pushing for him, but like you, I'd be disappointed if we sign him, as better options are available to us than Garnacho.
Emery has worked with Jackson before, and we have been linked consistently with him for the past 3 windows, so he obviously rates him. But if the fee is as being suggested I'd rather go for someone like Balogun, who would be cheaper. For me, I wouldn't be too disappointed with Chalobah.

He would be decent cover if Mings goes, and at £30 million for an England international the price isn't too shabby either in the current market.

Re Chelsea's financial position, certainly my friends aren't at all concerned. They have already banked circa £60 million for Cucurella. They have been in the same position re Enzo Fernandez as we have with Rogers. He is apparently going to Real Madrid for a fee larger than Rogers, so that, with other departures, they will be fine allegedly.

20 Jul 2026 17:58:42
To me it's just lazy journalism. They need to sell players, we need to buy players, all guess work. Where were all these in the know internet sites when we were in talks for Manzambi and Gomes? Nobody knew a thing until we had our offers accepted. We are linked with a lot of the same players every window, but we never buy any of them or even bid on them. Gabriel Sara is another one guaranteed every window. Romano said Emery wasn't interested in Jackson. Emery was asked about Jackson one day before we played Chelsea, as in, did he fear him? How was he going to stop him, knowing how he plays from your past working together? Emery, like any other manager, gave the politically correct answer about how he was a top player and professional.

What else is Emery going to say? You can't say "no he's rubbish we're not worried about him at all."
Did you see anything about Mingueza? I'm surprised we're not all over him. We need a rb and I'm fairly sure I seen somewhere he's a free agent? Maybe just speculation. I think we will most likely be surprised by the players we end up buying. I'd imagine it will be full steam ahead with our business as soon as Rogers signs his deal.

20 Jul 2026 22:48:52
Fairly sure Mingueza signed for Palace already, but agree thought he'd have been ideal for us.

21 Jul 2026 17:37:03
Looks like my Chelsea mates might be right again re Garnacho. 😡

19 Jul 2026 15:14:21
Hull City in for Leon Bailey.
Be nice to get him moved on.
Time will tell but this window is appearing to be one of our more successful ones in recent times for incomings and outgoings with the big money we're receiving helping us massively.

18 Jul 2026 19:13:50
Looks like my Chelsea mates were right all along, as I posted a while ago, Chelsea were confident they were getting Rogers. The only sticking point was the fee and that’s been resolved. Big test for the recruitment team now in how to replace the goal contributions of Tielemans and Rogers. Big big challenge.

19 Jul 2026 09:26:03
Fingers crossed Olabe can identify the right players, unlike Monchi. 🙄

18 Jul 2026 19:10:07
Rogers gone for 117m.

18 Jul 2026 20:42:49
I'm excited to see what our team will look like. Some real quality coming in, with lots of potential to get better. Manzambi looks a better player than Morgan looked when we bought him, and it didn't take Emery too long to get him to the top of his game.

Youri and Digne are bigger losses in my book. Gomes looks good. The boys on the Wolves page think we got a bargain. I think he buys a winger next, either Summerville or Rowe. LB and RB and another CM are also needed. We need to go to SA and find a striker prospect, imo.

18 Jul 2026 22:31:33
The 2 strikers that have caught my eye are Franculino Dju from the Danish league & 'Flaco' Lopez, an Argentinian playing in Brazil & banging them in. The dream striker would've been Goncalo Ramos, who went from PSG to Milan.

He's an assassin of a No9. He was 'cheap' at £60M for the player he is. Still think Nicolas Jackson might happen, though should Ollie go.

UTV.

19 Jul 2026 17:26:59
Jackson at 25 yrs, not for me. He hasn't really produced anywhere he went. Younger with potential is the way forward. We have experience with Ollie and Tammy, gotta keep finding those gems. We need a big profit sale like Roger's or Duran every 2 years, so they have no choice but to reinvest, and attacking players is where the money is.

17 Jul 2026 23:11:58
I see Arsenal want Konsa. If they want him and are prepared to pay the asking price £60 million, then we should let him go and go for Dean Huijsen or Joel Ordonez to replace him. Both strong defenders will further reduce both the age profile and wage bill.

18 Jul 2026 19:42:44
Well, they've got at least £117M going spare now. 😂😂😂

UTV.

19 Jul 2026 09:28:48
Like most Villa fans, I'm hopeful Olabe and Emery will be given the majority of the Rogers money. This is another opportunity to really make a significant upgrade to the squad.
🤞🏼

17 Jul 2026 18:47:15
Manzambi deal done, big fee... Exciting one though.

18 Jul 2026 00:01:21
I hope we did our due diligence and not base our decision purely on his WC performance, which, in fairness, was good, but countering that, he was virtually anonymous against us in the Europa League final. Most experts seem to think it's a good deal, so fair enough, but it's a sizeable fee for one so young and with no PL experience.

17 Jul 2026 10:55:57
Pervis Ecudarian agreed personal terms to replace Digne.

17 Jul 2026 13:42:15
Rogers agreed the same terms with Arsenal a month ago. I don't see any deal done. I wouldn't be surprised if we bought him, but these personal terms agreed rumours are all Bs.

16 Jul 2026 13:47:25
Rumours of two medicals happening, hope it’s correct UTV.

16 Jul 2026 15:58:35
Manzambi and Gomes, I presume. 🤞

15 Jul 2026 16:48:54
Heard that Manzambi will be having medical on Thursday and hopefully signing announced Thursday or Friday.
Bouba is taking the number 8 now. Youri has gone and Manzambi taking his preferred 44.

15 Jul 2026 19:54:40
Just checked out Gabriel Sara, who we've been linked with for a while. He's your similar to YT player, 27 & around £30M.

UTV.

15 Jul 2026 12:11:44
Whilst a number on here don’t mind the deal the club has struck with Visit Rwanda, it seems our potential new signing Johan Manzambi, or more particularly his father, does, and consequently our deal to sign him is now in doubt. Fair play to him.

15 Jul 2026 12:45:12
Just been reading about this Lord.
You really do have to question whether it's all really worth it?
UEFA and FA have driven clubs outside of the protected few to make financial decisions that I'm sure they would rather not have to.


For me, I won't buy a shirt with that as main sponsor on the front. That's my decision and I stand by it. I won't criticise anyone who decides differently, that's up to them.
UTV !!!

15 Jul 2026 13:05:30
Agree, Trinity. I won't buy one either. It's a personal choice at the end of the day, but I'm uncomfortable with the club promoting this type of regime.

15 Jul 2026 15:08:10
Why don't you hand your season tickets back if this bothers you that much, just saying. 🤷🏼‍♂️

UTV.

15 Jul 2026 19:42:58
Funnily enough I haven't renewed this year. Not because of the sponsorship deal, to be honest, but because the journey up from the SW was getting too much with the varying kick off times.
I support Aston Villa, but that doesn't mean I agree with everything they do off the pitch.


Bit like 'some' bitching about the price increases.
At the end of the day we all have our own decisions to make.

UTV!

15 Jul 2026 19:51:12
Fair play, Trinity. 👍🏻

UTV.

16 Jul 2026 11:39:11
You do all realise that article about his father was written by a Newcastle blogger desperately hoping Manzambi changes his mind and goes to Newcastle. Absolute nonsense is all it is.