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Marco Bizot is due to sign for Aston Villa(Image: Photo by FRED TANNEAU\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\nAston Villa are set to sign a new goalkeeper after Robin Olsen left the club last month<\/p>\n
21:38, 10 Jul 2025Updated 23:30, 10 Jul 2025<\/p>\n
Marco Bizot is due to sign for Aston Villa(Image: Photo by FRED TANNEAU\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Aston Villa are expected to sign Stade Brest goalkeeper Marco Bizot.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old is set to replace Robin Olsen<\/a>, who left the club at the end of June following the expiry of his contract.<\/a><\/p>\n Bizot will arrive with a wealth of experience and proven quality, having kept the third-most clean sheets in Ligue 1 last season.<\/p>\n He also started nine of Brest’s 10 Champions League fixtures during the campaign.<\/p>\n His 13 clean sheets helped Brest secure a third-place finish in Ligue 1 in 2023\/24, before recording 10 clean sheets last term.<\/p>\n Bizot joined Brest in 2021 and has made 148 appearances for the club\u2014just 16 short of the 164 he made for AZ Alkmaar in all competitions.<\/p>\n The Dutch ‘keeper moved to Brest for a modest fee, having joined AZ on a free transfer from KRC Genk in 2017.<\/p>\n Bizot has made one international appearance for the Netherlands and was last called up to the national team in March 2024.<\/p>\n He would become Villa’s second summer arrival after free agent Zepiqueno Redmond.<\/p>\n Villa could still be in the market for another goalkeeper this summer, amid growing uncertainty over Emi Mart\u00ednez\u2019s future.<\/p>\n The Argentina number one is understood to be open to a new challenge, while Villa also need to reduce their wage bill.<\/p>\n After breaching UEFA\u2019s squad cost rules in 2024, the club has agreed with UEFA to cut wage expenses by nearly 20 percent by the end of the next summer transfer window.<\/p>\n What do you make of Villa’s move for Bizot? Have your say HERE<\/a> Join our Aston Villa WhatsApp group and get the latest breaking news, interviews and opinion sent straight to your phone, plus matchday team news and live updates of all the action. Just click on this link<\/a> and select \u2018Join Community\u2019 to get started. The only proviso is that you must have WhatsApp on your phone to participate. It’s a free service. No one will be able to see your personal information and you will only receive messages from our Villa writers.<\/p>\n We will not spam your WhatsApp feed with constant messages, but you will receive updates from us daily with the latest Villa news. If you later decide to opt out, just go to the name at the top of your screen and click ‘Exit Group’. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. Click here to read our Privacy Notice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa are set to sign a new goalkeeper after Robin Olsen left the club last month 21:38,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[422,9165,855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-255053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-aston-villa-fc","9":"tag-aston-villa-transfer-news","10":"tag-birmingham","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114832268599931443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255053","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=255053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Whatsapp-storysocial.jpg\")
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