{"id":399543,"date":"2026-01-10T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399543\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:39:09","slug":"oriane-jean-francois-aston-villa-set-to-sign-chelsea-midfielder-for-450000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399543\/","title":{"rendered":"Oriane Jean-Francois: Aston Villa set to sign Chelsea midfielder for \u00a3450,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aston Villa are set to sign Chelsea midfielder Oriane Jean-Francois on a permanent deal for \u00a3450,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old joined Chelsea from Paris St-Germain in 2024 and Villa&#8217;s fee is set to be a club record sale for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The France midfielder has struggled to get regular game time at Chelsea, while Villa have shown ambition this season, bringing in Arsenal&#8217;s Jenna Nighswonger on loan until the end of the season earlier on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Villa are eighth in the Women&#8217;s Super League with three wins and four draws from their opening 11 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have an option to make the move permanent for defender Nighswonger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old, who was was part of the USA squad that won Olympic gold at Paris 2024, has played only 16 minutes in the WSL this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have been tracking her for some time and are delighted that she has bought into our exciting project,&#8221; said Villa director of women&#8217;s football Marisa Ewers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This signing forms part of our growing ambitions as we continue to build an exciting and competitive squad, and we believe Jenna will add real quality to the group.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa are set to sign Chelsea midfielder Oriane Jean-Francois on a permanent deal for \u00a3450,000. The 24-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-399543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}