{"id":23678,"date":"2026-06-24T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/23678\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:03:10","slug":"villa-linked-with-belgium-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/23678\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa linked with Belgium prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:BBC;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"BBC\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"195\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2023-07\/9188fa80-1cd1-11ee-adeb-4290b12541e6.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick Mashiter &#8211; Football reporter<\/p>\n<p>Wed, June 24, 2026 at 8:25 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the ultimate shop window: a World Cup with 48 teams &#8211; all packed with players eager to show what they can do on the biggest stage.<\/p>\n<p>With the transfer window now open, <a data-ylk=\"slk:BBC Sport journalists have been taking a look at some of the key names being discussed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/clyrn4gwdy4o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Baol.com%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Sport journalists have been taking a look at some of the key names being discussed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Matias Fernandez-Pardo\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_bbc_articles_618\/d8b05128062e1d57f042372e3b66d8ad.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa want a pacy winger, a striker, a midfielder and a right-back capable of providing cover for Ezri Konsa at centre-back. A goalkeeper is also on the agenda should Argentina&#8217;s Emi Martinez leave.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium&#8217;s young World Cup player Matias Fernandez-Pardo has been linked, with the 21-year-old able to play wide or through the middle up front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Mashiter &#8211; Football reporter Wed, June 24, 2026 at 8:25 AM UTC It&#8217;s the ultimate shop window:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2065,7,14123,1849],"class_list":["post-23678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-aston-villa","tag-belgium","tag-ezri-konsa","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116804282363264344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}