{"id":439653,"date":"2023-07-13T03:35:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T07:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439653"},"modified":"2023-07-13T03:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T07:35:40","slug":"pau-torres-joins-aston-villa-from-villareal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pau-torres-joins-aston-villa-from-villareal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pau Torres joins Aston Villa from Villareal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa have officially announced the signing of centre-back Pau Torres from Villareal for a disclosed fee of \u00a331.5m.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8OFFICIAL: Pau Torres joins Aston Villa from Villarreal on a permanent deal <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd18Transfer fee \u20ac33m + \u20ac5m in bonus.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AVFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AVFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CC9VlbzKhN\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CC9VlbzKhN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud835\udde3\ud835\udddb\ud835\udddc\ud835\udddf\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde3 \ud835\udde0\ud835\uddd8\ud835\udddf\ud835\udde2 (@Philipmelo126) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Philipmelo126\/status\/1679131532617760773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The deal mean that the 26-year-old will reunite with his former boss Unai Emery, who was the head-coach of Villareal from 2020 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Torres has been a part of Villareal ever since he joined their youth academy in 2003 and has made 179 appearances for the club, scoring 12 times.<\/p>\n<p>His impressive run of form lately has earned him a call from the national team, where he has gathered 23 caps.<\/p>\n<p>The defender made his professional debut for the Yellow Submarine in 2016 and was part of the team that won the 2021 Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>He has played for Spain since 2019, participating both in the 2020 Euros and 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Torres becomes Aston Villa&#8217;s second summer signing after Youri Tielemans joined the Birmingham team as a free agent from the relegated Leicester City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa have officially announced the signing of centre-back Pau Torres from Villareal for a disclosed fee of \u00a331.5m. \ud83d\udea8OFFICIAL: Pau Torres joins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439655,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18818,20209],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"video":[],"announce":"The defender will reunite with his former boss Unai Emery"},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439653"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439653"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}