{"id":23196,"date":"2025-09-11T04:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/the-goal-machine-is-not-interested-in-participating-in-leeds-but-is-seduced-by-the-aston-villa-transfer\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:02:58","slug":"the-goal-machine-is-not-interested-in-participating-in-leeds-but-is-seduced-by-the-aston-villa-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/11\/the-goal-machine-is-not-interested-in-participating-in-leeds-but-is-seduced-by-the-aston-villa-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"The goal machine is not interested in participating in Leeds, but is seduced by the Aston Villa Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Gian Philippe Mateta celebrates with his Crystal Palace teammates (Photo: Ryan Pierce\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crystal Palace striker Gian Philippe Mateta reportedly could be tempted by a move to Aston Villa, but he has no interest in joining Leeds United.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman shines during the course at Selhurst Park, which appears to have brought him more transfer interest than in January.<\/p>\n<p>It is still unclear whether the palace will realistically sell such a key player after already losing Ebeki Eze to Arsenal over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to a report from TeamTalk, Mateta himself appears to be seduced by the opportunity to move to the villa, even if he is not interested in the potential move to Leeds.<\/p>\n<h2>Jean-Philippe Mateta seduced by Aston Villa Transfer<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Philippe Mateta celebrates Crystal Palace after victory over Aston Villa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mateta looked like a player who could play at a higher level, and he could see the Villa as an ideal option for him.<\/p>\n<p>The prolific 28-year-old may have won the FA Cup at the palace, but if he moves to the villa, he may have a realistic opportunity to play every season, and perhaps even the Champions League, in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Mateta might be ideal to help villas replace Ollie Watkins.<\/p>\n<p>The AVFC may not be able to hold Watkins for too long, but Mateta is an equally proven prolific Premier League that can close that gap if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Mateta also has interest from Newcastle <em>Catch off side<\/em> It was recently reported.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gian Philippe Mateta celebrates with his Crystal Palace teammates (Photo: Ryan Pierce\/Getty Images) Crystal Palace striker Gian Philippe Mateta reportedly could be tempted by a move to Aston Villa, but he has no interest in joining Leeds United. The Frenchman shines during the course at Selhurst Park, which appears to have brought him more transfer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-23196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}