The Aston Villa Courier
Market17 Aug 2026
Tyrone Mings moves on
Chelsea pay $5.6M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Boubacar Kamara in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aston Villa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Marco Bizot moves on
Manchester City pay $1.1M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market17 Aug 2026
Aston Villa sign Steven Grant, one for the future
Steven Grant is 16, and Aston Villa have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market17 Aug 2026
A long bet from Aston Villa on George Dixon
He is 16, and nobody at Aston Villa signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The spotlight tightens on Thierry Rendall Correia
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
In brief
- Squad Thierry Rendall Correia still has not settled
- Squad Somebody is after Ian Maatsen’s shirt
- Squad Mateus Mané has seen what the next man earns