{"id":552,"date":"2025-01-27T22:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2025-01-27T22:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:46:23","slug":"aston-villa-manager-emery-interested-in-reunion-with-villarreals-foyth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/aston-villa-manager-emery-interested-in-reunion-with-villarreals-foyth\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa manager Emery interested in reunion with Villarreal&#8217;s Foyth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-60.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-60.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-60-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-60-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aston Villa boss Unai Emery is ready to make a move for Villarreal defender Juan Foyth as he searches for a new centre-back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emery wants to bolster his defensive options before the end of the January transfer window after Diego Carlos&#8217; move to Fenerbahce and Pau Torres&#8217; injury. Villa suffered another injury blow during Sunday&#8217;s 1-1 draw against West Ham when Tyrone Mings limped off with a knee problem in just his 10th game back after a 445-day absence with an ACL. Villa have been linked with former Tottenham defender Foyth, who played under Emery at Villarreal, and the Spaniard wouldn&#8217;t rule out a potential swoop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Monchi (Villa&#8217;s sporting director) and the club are looking at different players, the profile,&#8221; Emery said. &#8220;Of course, I know Juan Foyth because I worked with him. He is one player, with his quality, he can unite and play with the qualities and the performance we want to add in the squad.&#8221; Mings left the pitch in tears after suffering the injury to his left knee just after the half-hour mark. But he returned to watch the second half in a happier mood, smiling and giving fans the thumbs up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emery said initial tests showed it was not a serious injury. &#8220;The first tests we did, I think it is not a really bad injury or thinking it will be a long time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Tomorrow we will test again and we will know how important the injury is. Hopefully not a lot.&#8221; Villa&#8217;s draw was a dent to their Premier League top-four hopes in another example of their Champions League hangover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the sixth time Villa have failed to win in the league after a midweek European game this season. But they have little time to dwell on that setback before Wednesday&#8217;s Champions League showdown with Celtic, where a win could earn Emery&#8217;s men automatic qualification for the last 16. Villa sit ninth and if they finish outside the top eight in the Champions League, they will have to enter a play-off round to reach the last 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.besoccer.com\/match\/aston-villa-fc\/west-ham-united\/20256104\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa boss Unai Emery is ready to make a move for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}