{"id":256622,"date":"2026-01-21T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256622\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:25:07","slug":"aston-villas-injury-woes-worsen-as-captain-john-mcginn-ruled-out-for-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256622\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa’s injury woes worsen as captain John McGinn ruled out for ‘weeks’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Injury-hit Aston Villa<\/a> have suffered another blow, with captain John McGinn facing a number of weeks on the sidelines.<\/p>\n

The midfielder has not travelled to Turkey for Thursday’s Europa League game at Fenerbahce, while goalkeeper Emi Martinez and Boubacar Kamara are also out.<\/p>\n

Reports suggest key midfielder Kamara is out for the season after coming off with a knee injury against Tottenham<\/a> last week, with the club yet to provide an update.<\/p>\n

Scotland’s McGinn, 31, was forced off early in Sunday’s defeat by Everton<\/a> with a knee injury and boss Unai Emery is yet to discover the extent of the problem. <\/p>\n

“We are still waiting because he is still visiting some doctors to have a decision [on] what to do,” Emery told a news conference in Turkey.<\/p>\n

“It could be for some weeks or it could be [less], it depends on the doctor and how he’s feeling.”<\/p>\n

Martinez has a calf problem while new winger Alysson (knee) has also not travelled with Ross Barkley remaining in Birmingham, although Amadou Onana is available after missing the past four games with a hamstring issue. <\/p>\n

Villa arrived in Turkey on Wednesday afternoon but president of football operations Roberto Olabe flew out on Monday to watch target Tammy Abraham play for Besiktas. <\/p>\n

The striker, who was previously on loan at Villa in 2018-19 and helped them secure promotion to the Premier League with 25 goals in the Championship, featured as Besiktas beat Kayserispor 1-0.<\/p>\n

He is currently on loan from Roma but Besiktas, fifth in the Turkish Super Lig, have already activated their option to buy the 28-year-old for about \u00a312m which is making negotiations difficult.<\/p>\n

Besiktas – who are also in talks for Wolves<\/a> defender Emmanuel Agbadou – do not want to sell Abraham and have to find a replacement late in the window, but have been told he is eager to return to England with Villa – despite other Premier League interest. <\/p>\n

Sources in Turkey have suggested they are waiting for Villa to meet their demands for the striker who has scored 12 goals in 24 appearances since arriving in the summer.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Leon Bailey has returned to Villa after the club agreed to cancel his loan at Roma.<\/p>\n

There was no recall clause in the deal which took the winger to Serie A in the summer as Roma had the option to buy.<\/p>\n

However, both clubs have agreed it is in the best interest of all parties if Bailey returns, having made just one league start in an injury-hit spell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injury-hit Aston Villa have suffered another blow, with captain John McGinn facing a number of weeks on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-256622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}