{"id":165359,"date":"2025-06-07T16:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165359\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T16:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T16:06:14","slug":"aston-villa-are-now-keen-to-sign-absolutely-sensational-player-who-once-left-chelsea-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165359\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa are now keen to sign ‘absolutely sensational’ player who once left Chelsea for free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TBR Football can exclusively reveal that Aston Villa are interested in signing Marcin Bulka, who was previously at Chelsea.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unai Emery\u2019s<\/a> side narrowly missed out on qualifying for the Champions League<\/a>, but they have a Europa League campaign to look forward to.<\/p>\n

The Villans are expected to strengthen their squad this summer, and they are looking at several positions. One of them is a new goalkeeper.<\/p>\n

Aston Villa are interested in Nice star Marcin Bulka<\/p>\n

TBR Football\u2019s chief correspondent, Graeme Bailey<\/a><\/strong>, understands that Aston Villa have turned their attention to Polish goalkeeper Marcin Bulka.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old, who is currently with OGC Nice, has just 12 months left on his current deal, and a number of clubs are following him closely.<\/p>\n

Marseille are understood to be keen, whilst Barcelona also showed an interest in Bulka before opting for Joan Garcia \u2013 who was also a target for Villa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, the Birmingham giants are very much in the race for Bulka, who has previously spent time with Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea. He has emerged as a top-class goalkeeper since leaving the Blues on a free transfer in 2019.<\/p>\n

TBR Football understands that Emiliano Martinez\u2019s<\/a> long-term future remains unclear, and as such, Villa are doing their work on potential replacements. <\/p>\n

We are told that Bulka, who has been hailed as \u2018absolutely sensational\u2019 by Football Talent Scout\u2019s Jacek Kulig<\/a>, is now emerging as their top choice.<\/p>\n

Nice could sign a Chelsea goalkeeper to replace Marcin Bulka<\/p>\n

Nice had hoped that Bulka would sign a new long-term deal, but talks have not progressed. If that doesn\u2019t change, the French side will sell him this summer.<\/p>\n

TBR understands that Nice are looking at their options, and one of them is Chelsea\u2019s 25-year-old goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic.<\/p>\n

The Serbian spent the 2025\/26 season on loan at Strasbourg in France and impressed there. People at Chelsea even saw him as their future first-choice goalkeeper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, it remains to be seen what the Blues will do if they get an offer for Petrovic this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TBR Football can exclusively reveal that Aston Villa are interested in signing Marcin Bulka, who was previously at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[102,885,162,94,69278,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-165359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-aston-villa","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-english-premier-league","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-marcin-bulka","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114642943605986972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}