Boubacar Kamara

Defensive Midfielder - Aston Villa
22 Aug 2026
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Marked for Boubacar Kamara

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The Aston Villa Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Aston Villa bid $49.8M for Giorgi Mamardashvili

The offer went to Liverpool this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Aston Villa agree $8.3M for Tomoki Hayakawa

The clubs have shaken hands with Kashima Antlers; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market17 Aug 2026

Not going: Lamare Bogarde stays at Aston Villa

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Lincoln City had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market17 Aug 2026

Aston Villa sign Sydie Peck for $4.5M

The paperwork is done: Sydie Peck joins from Sheffield United in a deal worth $4.5M. Now comes the harder part.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Aston Villa go back to the board over Giorgi Mamardashvili

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $53.4M — a club that wants Giorgi Mamardashvili enough to be asked twice.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Aston Villa

Boubacar Kamara and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Sydie Peck arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Sydie Peck has, at Aston Villa, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market17 Aug 2026

Marco Bizot moves on

Manchester City pay $490.0K, 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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

4 academy players handed senior numbers at Aston Villa

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Aston Villa Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

An offer of $66.9M for Christian Pulisic

Aston Villa have gone to AC Milan 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Chelsea 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A move Diego Costa 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. Diego Costa is living that version at Aston Villa, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Aston Villa make their move for Tobías Cervera

$1.6M on the table at Gimnasia y Esgrima. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market3 Aug 2026

Boubacar Kamara raises the bar for Aston Villa

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Aston Villa heard it as anything else.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Leon Goretzka stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Leon Goretzka and Aston Villa agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Aston Villa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leon Goretzka 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Pau FC watching Ibrahim Mbaye

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Aston Villa have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief