{"id":386419,"date":"2025-08-31T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386419\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:54:12","slug":"aston-villa-could-sign-56-times-france-international-for-just-13-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386419\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa could sign 56-times France international for just \u00a313 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>It has been something of a frustrating transfer window for Aston Villa fans, who have watched on as their club has struggled to strengthen this summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/aston-villa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Villa<\/a> have been hamstrung by financial fair play rulings in recent months, with limited new faces to refresh Unai Emery\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/evann-guessand-makes-promise-that-aston-villa-fans-will-love-after-sealing-30m-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aston Villa signed Evann Guessand<\/a> as their only piece of major business earlier in the window, but the supporters will hope to welcome more new faces before Monday evening\u2019s deadline.<\/p>\n<p>And looking across Europe, a star midfielder is available for the <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/english-premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> side to buy for a very reasonable fee.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2211017287-1024x699.jpg\" alt=\"Aston Villa FC v Newcastle United FC - Premier League\" class=\"wp-image-940092\" \/>Photo by Neville Williams\/Aston Villa FC via Getty ImagesAdrien Rabiot would be an eye-catching signing<\/p>\n<p>Marseille midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/adrien-rabiot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrien Rabiot<\/a> is clearly available for transfer after being ostracised at the French club.<\/p>\n<p>The 56-times capped France international is available for a fee of \u20ac15 million (\u00a313 million), according to Fabrizio Romano on X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Olympique Marseille request \u20ac15m fee as only way to let Adrien Rabiot leave in the final days of the transfer window. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BOD1H1FBej\">pic.twitter.com\/BOD1H1FBej<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1961602515704652175?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p>Given Rabiot\u2019s experience, quality and the modest fee being asked, Villa should do everything they can to land the mercurial midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Villa need midfield reinforcements<\/p>\n<p>Villa\u2019s financial situation forced them to sell homegrown star Jacob Ramsey to Newcastle earlier in the summer, while the loan of Marco Asensio has not been renewed.<\/p>\n<p>This has left Emery short of options in midfield and a lack of creativity has been evident in the side\u2019s opening Premier League games.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2164692839-2-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"Spain v France: Semi-Final - UEFA EURO 2024\" class=\"wp-image-866536\" \/>Photo by Visionhaus\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>While convincing Rabiot to move to Villa Park could be difficult, the Frenchman\u2019s future is surely away from Marseille and a deal is there to be done.<\/p>\n<p>If Villa could land Rabiot, they would be getting a game-changing player \u2013 and someone to breathe enthusiasm back into the fans ahead of a long 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been something of a frustrating transfer window for Aston Villa fans, who have watched on as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[37027,102,162,2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-386419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-adrien-rabiot","9":"tag-aston-villa","10":"tag-english-premier-league","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115121360982968633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386419","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=386419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}