Defender ‘admired’ by Liverpool agrees £35 million deal with Premier League rivals
Aston Villa have reportedly agreed to sign centre-back Pau Torres.
The summer transfer window is starting to hot up.
Deals are starting to happen more frequently – with significant fees being splashed by Premier League clubs.
The race for the top four could as be as competitive as ever in the 2023-24 season. And one side who may be hoping to crash the party and qualify for the Champions League is Aston Villa.
After Unai Emery was appointment head coach last October, Villa went on an incredible run that saw them go from 14th to finishing seventh and qualifying for the Europa Conference League.
And Villa are showing ambition in the transfer market having agreed a £35 million deal for Pau Torres.
The centre-back will reunite with Unai Emery, having worked together at Villarreal – reaching the Champions League semi-final in 2021-22 when beaten by Liverpool.
Torres had been linked with a switch to Bayern Munich. What’s more, the Daily Mail reports that Jurgen Klopp’s side and Tottenham Hotspur have been admirers of the Spain international in the past.
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West Ham and Brighton want the futures of Declan Rice and Moises Caicedo sorted soon so they can reinvest the money as well – or as poorly – as Liverpool.
With Arsenal agreeing a £105m fee for Rice and Caicedo possibly going for a similar figure when Chelsea and Man Utd come calling, West Ham and Brighton will have considerable money to put back into their respective squads this summer.
That can be as much a negative as a positive, as these eclectic examples show. The biggest Premier League sales ever, and what those fees were subsequently spent on, are below.
An awkwardly-timed transfer ban prevented Chelsea from properly investing their Hazard money back into the squad, although by the time Frank Lampard was given access to those funds a year later the hit-rate was sub-optimal at best.
An awkwardly-timed transfer ban prevented Chelsea from properly investing their Hazard money back into the squad, although by the time Frank Lampard was given access to those funds a year later the hit-rate was sub-optimal at best.
“It was never our intention to replace Jack with one footballer; our strategy was to analyse and break down Jack’s key attributes – his creativity, his assists and goals – and find those qualities and others in three forward players,” said chief executive Christian Purslow. But even the combined efforts of Buendia, Bailey and Ings – the latter being one of the great transfers that came out of absolutely nowhere – summarily failed to replicate the impact and importance of the departed Villa captain.
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