{"id":796609,"date":"2026-07-13T02:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796609\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T02:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:03:10","slug":"newcastle-united-johan-manzambi-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796609\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle United | Johan Manzambi | Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newcastle United have reportedly lost out on signing Freiburg sensation and FIFA World Cup breakout star Johan Manzambi, who is set to join Premier League rivals Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Athletic\u2019s David Ornstein reports Villa are in the process of finalising a move to sign Manzambi from Bundesliga outfit Freiburg, where the Swiss midfielder was integral to the German club\u2019s run to last season\u2019s UEFA Europa League final against Villa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newcastle, per the Athletic, had an agreement with Freiburg for around $96million AUD but the Magpies did not have an agreement with Manzambi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, the 20-year-old \u2013 who missed Switzerland\u2019s final two World Cup matches through injury \u2013 wants to join Unai Emery\u2019s Europa League champions Villa.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 EXCL: Aston Villa in process of finalising move to sign Johan Manzambi from Freiburg. Newcastle United had agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/SCF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#SCF<\/a> but <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/NUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#NUFC<\/a> lacked player approval. 20yo Swiss midfielder wants <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/AVFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#AVFC<\/a> &amp; deal now accelerating towards conclusion <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheAthleticFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@TheAthleticFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UTfbtXcSaH\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/UTfbtXcSaH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/2076380621492932886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 12, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It comes after Newcastle also saw a transfer for Spanish winger Victor Munoz hijacked by Premier League giants Liverpool recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to reports, Newcastle had spent weeks negotiating a deal for the Osasuna star and were reportedly finalising personal terms and medicals before Liverpool swooped by triggering his $66m release clause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newcastle have already lost star duo Anthony Gordon (Barcelona) and Sandro Tonali (Tottenham) in $133.6m and $192m deals respectively, while Bruno Guimaraes has been tipped to leave St James\u2019 Park amid interest from champions Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eddie Howe\u2019s Newcastle finished 12th in the Premier League in 2025-26 \u2013 four points outside of the European places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United have reportedly lost out on signing Freiburg sensation and FIFA World Cup breakout star Johan Manzambi,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[11184,64,63,596,152839,374363,1526,85],"class_list":["post-796609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-aston-villa","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-freiburg","tag-johan-manzambi","tag-newcastle-united","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}