{"id":803753,"date":"2026-07-16T10:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/803753\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T10:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:38:21","slug":"aston-villa-villa-close-to-bringing-in-joao-gomes-for-38m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/803753\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa: Villa close to bringing in Joao Gomes for \u00a338m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves midfielder Joao Gomes is poised to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/aston-villa\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a> in a deal worth \u00a338m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Brazil international has left Wolves&#8217; training camp in Portugal and will have a medical on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The deal is worth an initial \u00a334m with another \u00a34m in add ons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Villa need midfield reinforcements after selling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9929gzdl2go\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Youri Tielemans to Manchester United for \u00a335m <\/a>and seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c862nw2xj0jo#:~:text=Aston%20Villa%20midfielder%20Amadou%20Onana,States%20in%20the%20last%2016.\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amadou Onana ruled out until next year with a serious knee injury<\/a> he suffered with Belgium at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are also close to completing the signing of Switzerland international Johan Manzambi for a club record fee of over \u00a350m from Freiburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Atletico Madrid had been keen on Gomes but did not finalise a deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gomes made 41 appearances for Wolves last season as they finished bottom of the Premier League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played 130 times for the club, scoring seven goals, after joining from Flamengo in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wolves midfielder Joao Gomes is poised to join Aston Villa in a deal worth \u00a338m. The Brazil international&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-803753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803753","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=803753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}