Ibrahim Mbaye

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Aston Villa
2 Feb 2027
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17 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Alejandro Garnacho was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 45. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad23 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Aston Villa

Amadou Onana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces23 Nov 2026

The crowd has taken to Alejandro Garnacho

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match21 Nov 2026

Aston Villa see off Leeds United

Three points for Aston Villa, 1‑0 the final word against Leeds United in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

A masterclass from Amadou Onana

Marked 8.35 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Timothy Jones: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Nothing got past Boubacar Kamara

14 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Market23 Nov 2026

The Amadou Onana story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Amadou Onana signs something — a contract at Aston Villa or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

When it matters, Ibrahim Mbaye plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match28 Oct 2026

Aston Villa bow out of the cup

Lincoln City go through and Aston Villa go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Tammy Abraham says Aston Villa went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Ibrahim Mbaye

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Alysson Edward, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.70

A mark of 7.70 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market2 Nov 2026

Boubacar Kamara wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Aston Villa hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market2 Nov 2026

Matteo Ruggeri has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Aston Villa can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Match31 Oct 2026

Aston Villa find a way past Sunderland

Sunderland made Aston Villa work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Markie Meade

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Markie Meade, and the manager let it.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Leon Goretzka was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.06. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief