{"id":371722,"date":"2026-01-15T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371722\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:16:08","slug":"finley-munroe-middlesbrough-sign-aston-villa-full-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371722\/","title":{"rendered":"Finley Munroe: Middlesbrough sign Aston Villa full-back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middlesbrough have signed full-back Finley Munroe from Aston Villa for \u00a3300,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old moves to the Riverside Stadium on a four-and-half-year contract, although Villa have a 30% sell-on clause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had been on a season-long loan with Swindon Town, where he played 27 games for the League Two side before being recalled by his parent club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Munroe joined Villa from Chelsea in 2021 and made two substitute appearances for Unai Emery&#8217;s side in 2024, while he had a season on loan in the Spanish third tier last year with Real Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The size of the club speaks for itself,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/january\/15\/fin-munroe-joins-from-aston-villa\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boro&#8217;s website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a huge club with aspirations of getting back into the Premier League and that attracted me, as did the fanbase and everything about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Munroe is Boro&#8217;s second signing this month following the arrival of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c3wz1x41e1zo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Castledine<\/a> from Chelsea after the midfielder had impressed on loan at Huddersfield Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough have signed full-back Finley Munroe from Aston Villa for \u00a3300,000. The 20-year-old moves to the Riverside Stadium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-371722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}