Player #897
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2018-19
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Albert Adomah
Seasons Quick-View
2016-19 🕒 125 | 97 (28) | 22 | 🔥 17 | 🇺 7 | ⚽ #897 |
Season :
2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
Age :
28 | 29 | 30 |
Division :
CH | CH | CH |
Squad # :
#37 | #37 | #37 |
Appearances :
39 | 44 | 42 |
Starts :
31 | 39 | 27 |
Substitute :
8 | 5 | 15 |
Unused :
1 | 2 | 4 |
Goals :
3 | 15 | 4 |
Assists :
10 | 5 | 2 |
Involvements :
13 | 20 | 6 |
Games / Goal :
13.00 | 2.93 | 10.50 |
Bookings :
1 | 1 | 3 |
Sendings Off :
0 | 0 | 0 |
FAC: FA Cup; FL: Football League; D1: Division 1; D2: Division 2; D3: Division 3; PL: Premier League; CH: Championship
Albert Danquah Adomah
Birth Date
13 December 1987
Birth Place
London
Birth Country
England
🏴
Citizenship
🇬🇭 🏴
England
Ghana
Villa Youth
n/a
Previous Teams (incl. Youth)
2006-08 Harrow Borough
Isthmian League
2008-10 Barnet, Free
League Two, 🕒 120 | 111 (9) | ⚽ 20 |
2010-13 Bristol City, £0.20m
Championship, 🕒 136 | 117 (19) | ⚽ 17 |
2013-16 Middlesbrough, Free
Championship, 🕒 143 | 125 (18) | ⚽ 28 |
Original Transfer
Aged
28
From
Middlesbrough
For
£3,150,000
On
31 August 2016
Under
Roberto Di Matteo 🇮🇹
Returning Transfer 1
Aged
n/a
From
n/a
For
n/a
On
n/a
Under
n/a
Returning Transfer 2
Aged
n/a
From
n/a
For
n/a
On
n/a
Under
n/a
Transfer Notes
Loans Out
None
Transfer Out 1
Aged
To
For
On
Under
31
Nottingham Forest
Free
10 July 2019
Dean Smith 🏴
Transfer Out 2
Aged
To
For
On
Under
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Transfer Out 3
Aged
To
For
On
Under
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Subsequent Clubs
2019-20 Nottingham Forest, Free
Championship, 🕒 27 | 8 (19) | ⚽ 2 |
2020 Cardiff City (L)
Championship, 🕒 9 | 9 (0) | ⚽ 0 |
2020-24 Queens Park Rangers, Free
Championship, 🕒 130 | 49 (81) | ⚽ 6 |
2024- Without Club
Albert Adomah
Villa Career
2016-19 | £3.15m |
Championship,
🕒 125 | 97 (28) | 22 | 🔥 17 | 🇺 7 | ⚽ #897 |
🕒 Games | Starts (Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |
Played Under
Roberto Di Matteo 🇮🇹 2016
Steve Bruce 🏴 2016-18
Dean Smith 🏴 2018-19
Promoted to First Team Squad
In
Transfer In
Under
Roberto Di Matteo 🇮🇹
First Squad
17 September 2016
Manager
Transfer In
Debut
Season
Date
Match
Age
Manager
2016-17
17 September 2016
Ipswich Town (a), Championship
28
Roberto Di Matteo 🇮🇹
Final Appearance
Season
Date
Match
Aged
Manager
2018-19
27 May 2019
Derby County (n), Play Off Final
31
Dean Smith 🏴
Final Squad
27 May 2019
Manager
Dean Smith 🏴
Honours
2017-18 Play Off Finalists |
2018-19 Play Off Final Winners |
Height
(6 ft 0 in) 1.85 m
Foot
Right
International Record
National Team
Ghana
Years | Caps | Starts (Sub) | Goals |
2011-18 🕒 19 | 11 (8) | ⚽ 2 |
Ghana
Caps with Villa
🕒 1 | 1 (0) | ⚽ 0 |
Albert Adomah
Player #896 for Aston Villa, Albert Danquah Adomah played as a winger for the club between 2016 and 2019.
Albert was born in London on 13 December 1987
Roberto Di Matteo had signed Adomah from Middlesbrough for a fee of £3,150,000 on 31 August 2016 and his arrival was one of a number of notable Villa signings that the maligned and brief Di Matteo management team oversaw including Tommy Elphick, James Chester, Mile Jedinak and Jonathan Kodjia as well as Albert.
Albert made his debut appearance for Villa at the age of 28 on Saturday, 17 September 2016 in the Championship draw away to Ipswich Town with Adomah coming on as an 82’ substitute for Leandro Bacuna. And therein lied a core part of Albert’s appeal, a committed, passionate team player with genuine goalscoring and goal creating ability replacing one with little of such attributes.
Although Di Matteo’s regime was short-lived, his transfer legacy was not. Adomah made his full debut on Saturday, 24 September 2016 as Villa once again drew, this time with Newcastle United. Indeed by the time Albert was on the winning side, Villa had a new boss in Steve Bruce.
From that inauspicious start however blossomed a special relationship.
Between October 2016 and March 2017 Albert contributed 10 assists in 25 games and scored 3 goals- the opening strike in Villa’s 3-1 home victory over Cardiff City on Saturday, 26 November 2016 and a a brace in the home draw with Preston North End on Saturday, 21 January 2017.
Albert’s second season was even more productive with 15 goals in 44 appearances starts as well as 5 assists with Albert ending the 2017-18 as Villa’s top scorer.
2018-19 was a quieter season for Albert as he hit four goals and created two assists in his 24 league starts and 15 substitute appearances but he was instrumental in having built the momentum that led Dean Smith’s Villa to promotion back to the Premier League after three seasons away.
Albert’s final appearance for the club came in the Play Off final victory over Derby County on Monday, 27 May 2019 that secured Villa’s return to the Premier League.
Adomah was released by Villa ahead of the 2019-20 Premier League season on 1 July 2019 aged 31 and he subsequently joined Nottingham Forest on a free transfer but he will always be remembered with great affection by those who saw him as a shining example of the sort of player, on and off the field, that Villa needed after such a torrid first half of the decade.