Nathan Wright

Goalkeeper - Aston Villa
19 Mar 2035
Monday
Process

Marked for Nathan Wright

446 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

12 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Aston Villa

Boubacar Kamara was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

Stefano Greco has agreed to leave Aston Villa for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Words at Aston Villa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matty Cash is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

Stefano Greco has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aston Villa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings

Samuel Iling-Junior runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Nathan Wright stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nathan Wright and Aston Villa agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
380 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

7 Nov 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

15 seasons of John McGinn

674 appearances across 15 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Aston Villa know what they have.

Player ratings

Tammy Abraham, 36, rolls back the years — 7.80

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Boubacar Kamara signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Boubacar Kamara and Aston Villa agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Aston Villa

Boubacar Kamara was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

A move Mattia Sonzogni would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mattia Sonzogni is living that version at Aston Villa, and it tends to show in the first month.

Loan watch

Luke Pearson has seen enough of Stockport County

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Aston Villa, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Match

Aston Villa get the job done against Nottingham Forest

A 1‑0 win over Nottingham Forest, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

Mattia Sonzogni arrives at Aston Villa as the heir apparent

Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Mattia Sonzogni is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.

Market

The Matty Cash talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Aston Villa know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief