Villa have signed Victor Lindelöf 🇸🇪 as an unattached player.

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Sil Swinkels 🇳🇱 makes it four successive starts for Exeter but suffers a serious injury on 42 minutes and looks likely to be on the sidelines for an extended period. 🕒 4 | ✅ 4 | 🔁 0 | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 1 |

Villa u21 attacking midfielder Ewan Simpson has joined Scottish League One side Hamilton Academical on loan for the 2025-26 season.

Aston Villa Women have signed Maya Hijikata

Lewis Dobbin August 2025: Aged 22, Loaned to Championship side Preston North End 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 for the 2025-26 season.

Álex Moreno has left Villa after spending the 2024-25 season on loan at Nottingham Forest.

A curious player, a curious fellow, more out of form than in across his four seasons with Villa, Bailey always had the capacity but rarely the application to be a game-changer.

Dendoncker leaves for an undisclosed fee to Real Oviedo 🇪🇸

Morgan Rogers has been crowned 2024/25 PFA Young Player of the Year.

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Jacob Ramsey, JJ, affectionately known as 'Baby' leaves Villa and a huge hole in the dressing room.

Kerr Smith has made his second loan move away from the club following his injury-curtailed spell at St Johnstone 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in 2024.

Villa have raided the Albion youth coffers once again, this time to bring goalkeeper Ronnie Hollingshead to the club.

Joe Gauci makes his second loan move away from Villa by joining Port Vale for the 2025-26 season. Gauci, who has made two Cup appearances for the first team, spent time on loan at Barnsley in 2024-25 making seven appearances, conceding nine and keeping two clean sheets.

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Ivory Coast international Evann Guessand 🇨🇮 has signed for Villa in a €30.00m deal from OGC Nice 🇫🇷. Evann, a forward who can play across the frontline, helped Nice to 4th position in Ligue 1 in 2024-25 contributing 12 goals.

Villa u21 midfielder I-Lani Edwards has joined National League North side Hereford on loan for the first half of the 2025-26 season. I-Lani made 6 PL2 appearances last season as well as representing Villa in the EFL Trophy and Birmingham Senior Cup.

Lucas Digne has agreed terms on a new deal to keep him at the club until 2028. Lucas, 32, has reportedly agreed to reduced terms such was his passion and desire to remain at Villa.

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