{"id":701540,"date":"2026-07-20T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701540\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:33:16","slug":"spain-homecoming-watch-as-world-cup-winners-return-to-madrid-plus-transfer-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701540\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain homecoming: Watch as World Cup winners return to Madrid plus transfer latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Villa sign Wolves midfielder Gomes in \u00a338m dealpublished at 13:18 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:18 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9e5c089b-2e9b-4602-b743-ff14a7b27fe0.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Nick Mashiter<br \/>BBC Sport football news reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joao Gomes\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d1eda685-a250-4b8c-b17c-ca6d61e5c023.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aston Villa have completed the \u00a338m signing of midfielder Joao Gomes from Wolves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Brazil international joins for an initial \u00a334m with \u00a34m in add-ons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Villa completed a club record deal worth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5yzyg028gxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1kfwcbf-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than \u00a350m<\/a> for Freiburg midfielder Johan Manzambi on Friday, beating Newcastle to the Switzerland international.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Atletico Madrid had also been keen on Gomes, but the 25-year-old left Wolves&#8217; training camp in Portugal on Thursday to have a medical and finalise his move to Villa Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Villa have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9929gzdl2go\" class=\"ssrcss-1kfwcbf-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sold Youri Tielemans to Manchester United<\/a> for \u00a335m, while fellow midfielder Morgan Rogers is set to leave after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0ej1jyy8yyo\" class=\"ssrcss-1kfwcbf-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a3117m deal<\/a> was agreed with Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Villa sign Wolves midfielder Gomes in \u00a338m dealpublished at 13:18 BST 13:18 BST Nick MashiterBBC Sport football news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-701540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701540","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=701540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}