{"id":393310,"date":"2026-01-27T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393310\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:59:08","slug":"aston-villa-transfer-news-douglas-luiz-agrees-loan-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393310\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa transfer news: Douglas Luiz agrees loan return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aston Villa<\/a> have agreed a deal to re-sign former midfielder Douglas Luiz on loan.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old is currently on loan at Nottingham Forest<\/a> from Juventus, but is set to leave the City Ground before Monday’s transfer deadline and join Villa. <\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a> were also interested in the Brazil international but sources told BBC Sport his preference was Villa, where he made 204 appearances between 2019 and 2024.<\/p>\n

The deal includes an option to buy.<\/p>\n

Villa sold Luiz to Juventus for \u00a342.5m in June 2024 to help solve their profit and sustainability problems, but he made just three Serie A starts before joining Forest in August 2025.<\/p>\n

Villa boss Unai Emery is looking to bolster his midfield options, with captain John McGinn out for up to two months with a knee issue and Boubacar Kamara expected to miss the rest of the season with a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Emery’s side lost out on Conor Gallagher earlier this month after the England international opted to join Tottenham from Atletico Madrid for \u00a335m.<\/a><\/p>\n

Villa are third in the Premier League – four points behind leaders Arsenal<\/a> – and have qualified for the Europa League last 16 with one league-phase game to spare.<\/p>\n

Villa are also expected to complete the \u00a318m signing of striker Tammy Abraham from Besiktas imminently after the striker had a medical in the UK.<\/p>\n

The Turkish side activated an \u00a311.2m option to buy loanee Abraham from Roma<\/a> on Monday and are now set to sell the 28-year-old to Villa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa have agreed a deal to re-sign former midfielder Douglas Luiz on loan. The 27-year-old is currently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-393310","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\/393310","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=393310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}