{"id":516500,"date":"2026-08-19T05:22:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=516500"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:22:02","slug":"aston-villa-ink-goalkeeper-suzuki-and-left-back-ruggeri","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/aston-villa-ink-goalkeeper-suzuki-and-left-back-ruggeri\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa ink goalkeeper Suzuki and left-back Ruggeri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa have officially signed goalkeeper Zion Suzuki and left-back Matteo Ruggeri.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese goalkeeper Zion makes the move to the Premier League from Serie A club Parma for almost 30 million pounds, while Matteo comes from Atletico Madrid for 17 million pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki joins the club despite Emiliano Martinez\u2019s transfer to Juventus collapsing over the past weekend, with the 2 teams unable to agree a fee.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentinian goalkeeper, who helped the club win the Europa League a few months ago and was also crucial for Argentina\u2019s triumph in the World Cup in Qatar, faces an uncertain future after his failed transfer to the Old Lady.<\/p>\n<p>Unai Emery views the Japanese goalkeeper as their long-term number 1, potentially for at least a decade. Zion had been part of Parma for 2 seasons, playing 59 matches for the Italian club and helping them finish 13<sup>th<\/sup> in the past campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Ruggeri will need to replace Lucas Digne, who surprisingly will continue his career at the French champions PSG earlier this month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Unai Emery has been planning for the exit of No 1 Emiliano Martinez for the last two summers, and much detailed work has duly gone into sourcing his replacement.<\/p>\n<p>The Midlanders have been in contact with Parma all summer about Zion Suzuki\u2019s situation, keeping abreast of his\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KITtB0Mnj0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KITtB0Mnj0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/2089994631136035291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">August 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa have officially signed goalkeeper Zion Suzuki and left-back Matteo Ruggeri. The Japanese goalkeeper Zion makes the move to the Premier League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":516501,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18818,27159],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18819,27160],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Villains with two new players ahead of the new season.","video":[]},"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\/516500"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516502,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516500\/revisions\/516502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516500"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=516500"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=516500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}