{"id":809592,"date":"2026-07-18T07:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809592\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:15:16","slug":"bayern-munichs-joao-palhinha-on-verge-of-joining-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809592\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich\u2019s Jo\u00e3o Palhinha on \u2018verge\u2019 of joining Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to a report from A Bola (as captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iMiaSanMia\/status\/2078209852376219704?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">@iMiaSanMia<\/a>), Aston Villa\u2019s pursuit of Bayern Munich midfielder Jo\u00e3o Palhinha might be moving quickly \u2014 very quickly. Palhinha is reportedly on his way to England for a physical with a potential deal being very close:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Jo\u00e3o Palhinha is on the verge of joining Aston Villa. He\u2019s expected in England tomorrow to finalize the agreement. Despite Benfica\u2019s interest, Palhinha is now set to stay in the Premier League. Villa opened negotiations with Bayern a few days ago after Amadou Onana\u2019s ACL injury at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With regular playing time difficult to come by at Bayern Munich, a transfer (or another loan) could offer Palhinha the opportunity to play a more prominent role while returning to the Premier League. For Aston Villa, Palhinha experience, defensive presence, and ball-winning ability could strengthen the midfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The big question is really whether or not this would be a loan or a a full transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a report from A Bola (as captured by @iMiaSanMia), Aston Villa\u2019s pursuit of Bayern Munich midfielder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[43989,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-809592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bayern-munich-transfer-news-and-rumors","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}