{"id":37623,"date":"2026-01-10T02:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/unai-emery-presses-aston-villa-for-e25m-move-for-attacker\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:27:13","slug":"unai-emery-presses-aston-villa-for-e25m-move-for-attacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/unai-emery-presses-aston-villa-for-e25m-move-for-attacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Unai Emery presses Aston Villa for \u20ac25m move for attacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aston Villa manager Unai Emery is reportedly keen for the club to invest \u20ac25 million in a potential transfer for Atletico Madrid attacking midfielder Thiago Almada.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Argentina international has long been seen as a promising future, but now, at 24 years old, his career at Atl\u00e9tico appears to have stalled a bit.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in Spain&#8217;s Fichajes, Villa manager Emery currently believes it is worth trying a move to invite him to Villa Park in January.<\/p>\n<p>Almada is seen as someone who can add sparkle and creativity to Emery&#8217;s side as they continue their surprise bid for the Premier League title.<\/p>\n<h2>Could a successful January transfer window help Aston Villa&#8217;s title challenge?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thiago Almada plays for Atl\u00e9tico Madrid (Photo by Lars Baron\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Villa currently sit third on goal difference, with Emery&#8217;s side level with Manchester City and six points behind league leaders Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>AVFC will not be favorites to win the league in most people&#8217;s eyes, but six points difference is not that big of a difference and they have performed well for the majority of the season.<\/p>\n<p>If Villa can have a successful transfer window and land a talent like Almada, who can play as an attacking midfielder or winger, it could bring new dimension and fresh inspiration for the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Fichajes has indicated that Emery is keen on the move, which he also appears to have the support of Villa&#8217;s sporting director, and is likely to be one to watch in the coming days and weeks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa manager Unai Emery is reportedly keen for the club to invest \u20ac25 million in a potential transfer for Atletico Madrid attacking midfielder Thiago Almada. The Argentina international has long been seen as a promising future, but now, at 24 years old, his career at Atl\u00e9tico appears to have stalled a bit. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-37623","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\/37623","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=37623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}