Aston Villa transfer news LIVE: Tielemans agrees to join on free transfer, Oxlade-Chamberlain poised to follow

According to talkSPORT, former Liverpool attacking midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is also set to join Villa on a free transfer. More to follow.

Aston Villa supporters are praising the club for the signing of Leicester City midfielder Youri Tielemans.

The 26-year-old has arrived on a free transfer after his contract in the East Midlands expired, with a medical under way for the Belgium international. The deal has generated excitement among Villa fans, who have noticed a repeated transfer trick that has worked wonders once more. He will sign a four year deal according to transfer expert Fabrizio Romano.

After signing Boubacar Kamara on a free transfer from Marseille last summer, Villa look to have done the same again – securing an FA Cup winner with plenty of experience on the international stage. Below is a look at what supporters have been saying.

Chris C: Remember when Midfield was a weak point? And now we’ve got Kamara, Dougie and Tielemans. Not to mention JJ and JM who can drop in.

Jake: Hopefully the start of a busy AVFC window. Let the flood gates open!

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According to transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, Tielemans has agreed a four year deal at Villa Park.

Tielemans contested the sixth most tackles and won the 10th most tackles in the league that season as Leicester finished in fifth-place for the second year in a row. In 2021/22, the Foxes finished in eighth – four points behind West Ham who qualified for the Europa Conference League – with Tielemans once again proving crucial to their best moments of the campaign.

After opting to remain at the club last summer, he struggled in an under-performing Leicester side who were relegated on the final day of the season. Despite not living up to his own high standards, Tielemans still performed well against fellow Premier League midfielders.

Of all midfielders in the English top-flight, he completed the eighth most passes into the final third and 181 progressive passes, which is 33 more than Douglas Luiz, who led the way for Villa. His xA (expected assists) value was 3.3, which is the same as John McGinn’s, while he made exactly the same number of tackles as the Scot (66), but won a greater share of his ground duels.

Only Arsenal’s Thomas Partey recorded a better successful take-on rate than Tielemans last season, with the Belgium international completing 74 per cent of his take-ons. McGinn completed 64 per cent of his last term, while only Thiago has recorded a lower tackled during take-ons percentage than Tielemans of all midfielders.

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Aston Villa have reportedly agreed a deal to sign central midfielder Youri Tielemans on a free transfer.

The 26-year-old is said to be undergoing a medical ahead of officially joining Villa once his Leicester City contract expires on July 1. According to The Athletic, the deal is agreed with a medical now taking place, as Tielemans is “on the cusp” of being Unai Emery’s first signing of the summer transfer window.

Tielemans spent four-and-a-half years in the Premier League with Leicester, establishing himself as one of their best players as they won the FA Cup and Community Shield, as well as playing in Europe. Villa qualifying for European football will likely have been key to persuading the midfielder to sign.

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Former Aston Villa chief Bryan Jones has admitted that ex-Villans star Jack Grealish is the best player to come through the club’s academy during his time there.

The Manchester City superstar is set to feature during Saturday’s Champions League final against Inter Milan. Having already won the Premier League and FA Cup this season, victory for Pep Guardiola’s side in Istanbul will see them match the 1999 Treble of rivals Manchester United.

Grealish left Villa Park to join the Citizens in 2021 for a huge £100 million fee, the biggest in British football history. The 27-year-old came through the Villa academy under Jones who also helped to unearth the likes of Gary Cahill, Gareth Barry, Steven Davis and Barry Bannan.

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A certain former Aston Villa captain is in action in the Champions League final tonight. So will you be shouting on Man City and their £100m man or rooting for Inter Milan? Will Grealish forever be “our Jack” or just another Villa exile who left seeking the game’s bigggest prizes? Our former Villa writer Mat Kendrick has sparked off a lively debate on Twitter…

Our Villa experts have been mulling over just where Unail Emery needs to be investing his transfer cash this summer.

The Villa head coach will use the summer window to make several quality additions to his squad after holding back in January by only signing two players: Alex Moreno and Jhon Duran.

But where to splash the cash. And who on. Our latest he Claret & Blue podcast has taken a look.

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The 2022/23 season has been one to remember for Aston Villa Women. They started as they meant to go on with an opening day victory over Manchester City at Villa Park and showed no signs of slowing down as the campaign went on.

Carla Ward’s side secured their highest ever finish in the top flight, fifth place on 37 points, 10 behind Manchester City and Arsenal. Their progress has been undeniable and the success hasn’t just been limited to the WSL. They also reached an FA Cup semi-final for the first time in their history.

So how did the ladies rate? We have taken a look…

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Villa and their Premier League rivals are getting themselves ready for what promises to be a busy and exciting 2023 summer transfer window.

The transfer window officially opens on Wednesday (June 14) but new arrivals and departures have already started to be announced. Clubs have until Friday, September 1, to do get their business done.

We have listed all the deals done by every top-flight club so far…

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Every team who qualifies for the Europa Conference League must get through a play-off round to enter the group stage, Villa included. The play-off draw will take place on Monday, August 7, days before Villa open their new Premier League campaign.

There are two pots from which teams will be drawn from, seeded and unseeded. In theory, more seeded teams should qualify for the competition than unseeded teams. Villa would prefer to be a seeded team as they’d be more likely to face a team who do not have a high UEFA coefficient, or ranking, which takes into account historical performance.

Currently, Villa are unseeded due to their low UEFA coefficient. but this could change over the weekend…

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Borussia Dortmund are ‘interested’ in Aston Villa linked Crysencio Summerville, it is being claimed.

The winger scored four goals and also had two assists for a struggling Leeds United team who were relegated from the Premier League in the season just gone. He arrived at Elland Road from his native Netherlands in 2020.

Summerville has a contract with the Lily Whites that runs until the summer of 2026 so will require a hefty transfer fee to prise him away from the Yorkshire club in the upcoming transfer window, which opens on June 14.

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Villa old boy Alan Hutton has been talking about “scary” Jacob Ramsey and his future prospects for club and country.

Many Villa fans were disappointed to say the least when the youngster was ignored by England boss Gareth Southgate when he named his latest senior squad.

But Hutton has had a few words of wisdom for the 22-year-old, who scored six goals and chipped in with eight assists last term as he proved himself to be a key part of Unai Emery’s Villa team.

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Unai Emery wants to add depth to his squad ahead of a challenging 2023/23 season with several quality additions as Villa look to compete on several fronts, chief amongst them being the Premier League and the Europa Conference League. That will also mean existing players being shown the door to to make room for new arrivals.

To try to get a feel for what the Villa boss has in mind, we’ve taken a look at what he has had to say about his summer plans, ambitions for 2023/24 and the players he is targeting, in form if not in name…

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Sevilla have reportedly set Monchi a deadline of Monday to make a decision on his future amid speculation linking him to a role at Aston Villa.

Earlier this week, it was made public that Monchi had asked to leave the club following reports stating Villa were keen to appoint a sporting director to work alongside Johan Lange. Monchi has been one of the names under consideration by the Villa hierarchy after Mateu Alemany opted against joining the club last month.

Although Monchi has informed Sevilla of his desire to leave, he also reportedly asked for the release clause to be removed from his contract. But his final decision still remains unclear, claims Spanish newspaper Marca.

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