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76 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Jan 2028

Amadou Onana breaks a bone — 96 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 96 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

Door shut on Alexander Isak

Aston Villa asked and Liverpool said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Jonathan Phillips damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

The paperwork begins on Ross Stewart

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Aston Villa have done the hard part with Southampton, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market10 Jan 2028

The Luton Town deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Amadou Onana reports back to Aston Villa with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Market10 Jan 2028

Johan Manzambi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Aston Villa can pretend not to have heard.

Market10 Jan 2028

Everton join the queue for Tammy Abraham

Add another name to the list: Everton have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Tammy Abraham. The answer from Aston Villa has not changed — yet.

Market10 Jan 2028

Aston Villa turn down Shrewsbury Town for Ibrahim Mbaye

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

The dugout10 Jan 2028

Matt Grimes: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Aston Villa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

In brief

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75 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom3 Jan 2028

Aston Villa part company with Jonathan Martin

The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.

Transfer targets3 Jan 2028

Aston Villa rebuffed over Vinícius Júnior

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Arsenal have kept their man, and Aston Villa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad3 Jan 2028

Amadou Onana breaks a bone — 104 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 104 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad3 Jan 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jonathan Phillips

33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aston Villa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market3 Jan 2028

Evann Guessand asks to leave Aston Villa

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market3 Jan 2028

Brighton come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Aston Villa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets3 Jan 2028

An offer of $10.1M for Ross Stewart

Aston Villa have gone to Southampton with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Boardroom3 Jan 2028

Crisis meeting at Aston Villa

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Boardroom3 Jan 2028

Harry Butler takes charge at Aston Villa

“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.

In brief