{"id":283805,"date":"2025-07-23T00:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/283805\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:10:20","slug":"louie-barry-sheffield-united-sign-aston-villa-forward-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/283805\/","title":{"rendered":"Louie Barry: Sheffield United sign Aston Villa forward on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sheffield United have signed Aston Villa forward Louie Barry on a season-long loan deal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old played under Blades boss Ruben Selles in an injury-curtailed loan spell with Hull City last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He started the 2024-25 campaign on loan in League One with Stockport and scored 15 goals in 23 league games for the Hatters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The first time I had conversations about it, I just couldn&#8217;t wait to come here,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sufc.co.uk\/news\/2025\/july\/22\/louie-barry-signs\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The season is three weeks away, and I know we have a couple of friendlies before, but I am just buzzing to get started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barry is the Championship side&#8217;s second signing of the day after teenage Septemvri Sofia defender Anton Polendakov joined for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old has represented Bulgaria up to Under-21 level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Blades have not revealed the length of contract Polendakov has signed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield United have signed Aston Villa forward Louie Barry on a season-long loan deal. The 22-year-old played under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-283805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114899650345183545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283805","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=283805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}