{"id":701471,"date":"2026-07-20T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701471\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:34:12","slug":"aston-villa-sign-joao-gomes-in-38m-deal-from-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701471\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa sign Joao Gomes in \u00a338m deal from Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aston Villa<\/a> have completed the \u00a338m signing of midfielder Joao Gomes from Wolves.<\/p>\n

The Brazil international joins for an initial \u00a334m with \u00a34m in add-ons.<\/p>\n

Villa completed a club record deal worth more than \u00a350m<\/a> for Freiburg midfielder Johan Manzambi on Friday, beating Newcastle<\/a> to the Switzerland international. <\/p>\n

Atletico Madrid had also been keen on Gomes, but the 25-year-old left Wolves’ training camp in Portugal on Thursday to have a medical and finalise his move to Villa Park.<\/p>\n

Villa midfielder Amadou Onana is out until next year after suffering a serious knee injury with Belgium at the World Cup.<\/p>\n

Villa have also sold Youri Tielemans to Manchester United<\/a> for \u00a335m, while fellow midfielder Morgan Rogers is set to leave after a \u00a3117m deal<\/a> was agreed with Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gomes made 41 appearances for Wolves last season and was named Player of the Year as they finished bottom of the Premier League.<\/p>\n

He played 130 times for the club, scoring seven goals, after joining from Flamengo in 2023.<\/p>\n

Wolves technical director Matt Jackson said: “Joao deserves everything he gets from the game. He’s a model professional, a lovely young man and a great family man.<\/p>\n

“He’s the type of professional coaches love and players love, so he will go on to be the outstanding player that we know he is.<\/p>\n

“We’re obviously sorry to see him go, but we have to take responsible decisions for the football club, and then we build to be stronger collectively. <\/p>\n

“It’s a very natural part of football – the best run football clubs who don’t have unlimited resources have to work this way.<\/p>\n

“The model is something that we have to adopt, and our fans have always been hugely understanding of that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa have completed the \u00a338m signing of midfielder Joao Gomes from Wolves. The Brazil international joins for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-701471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701471","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=701471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}