{"id":554859,"date":"2026-07-17T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554859\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:06:14","slug":"aston-villa-transfers-johan-manzambi-signs-in-club-record-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554859\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa transfers: Johan Manzambi signs in club record deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aston Villa<\/a> have completed the signing of midfielder Johan Manzambi from Freiburg for a club record fee of just over \u00a350m.<\/p>\n

The Switzerland international moves to Villa Park in a deal eclipsing the \u00a350m Villa paid Everton<\/a> for Amadou Onana two years ago. <\/p>\n

Villa are also close to completing the \u00a338m signing of Wolves midfielder Joao Gomes, who left the Championship club’s training camp in Portugal on Thursday to complete a medical. <\/p>\n

Manzambi was on the verge of joining Newcastle<\/a> last week after the Magpies agreed a deal with Freiburg, but Villa moved quickly and was his preferred destination. <\/p>\n

The 20-year-old scored three goals for Switzerland as they reached the quarter finals of the World Cup before losing to Argentina.<\/p>\n

He played against Villa for Freiburg in the Europa League final in Istanbul in May as Unai Emery’s side won 3-0 to end a 30-year trophy drought. <\/p>\n

Manzambi was named Europa League Young Player of the Season and scored seven goals in 47 appearances in all competitions last term, as Freiburg finished seventh in the German Bundesliga. <\/p>\n

He joins with Villa needing midfield reinforcements after selling Youri Tielemans to Manchester United for \u00a335m<\/a> as United triggered the Belgium international’s release clause. <\/p>\n

Villa are also without Onana until next year after he suffered a serious knee injury at the World Cup with Belgium.<\/a><\/p>\n

Villa’s finances are tight as they look to comply with Uefa financial regulations and left-back Lucas Digne is close to rejoining Paris St-Germain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa have completed the signing of midfielder Johan Manzambi from Freiburg for a club record fee of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-554859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554859","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=554859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}