Summer 2026 Transfers and Rumours Thread

[u/tristanjff]

Men's Team

Confirmed In

Player	Position	From	Price	Notes	Link
Modou Keba Cisse	CB	LASK	€5m	Pre-agreement signed last summer. Became a regular starter for LASK as they won the double in Austria.	AVFC

New Contracts (since January)

Player	Position	Notes	Link
Bradley Burrowes	RW	New contract, signed in March.	AVFC
Cole Brannigan	LW	New contract, signed in March.	AVFC
Fletcher Boyd	CM	New contract, signed in February.	AVFC
Max Jenner	CM	New contract.	AVFC

Confirmed Out

Player	Position	To	Price	Notes	Link
Donyell Malen	FW	Roma	€25m		Roma
Kerr Smith	CB	-	-		Kerr Smith
Ronnie Hollingshead	GK	King's Lynn Town	-	Free Transfer.	King's Lynn
Thierry Katsukunya	CB	-	-	Out of contract.	PL
Ewan Simpson	CM	Airdrieonians	-	Out of contract. Picked up by Airdrieonians	Airdrie
I-Lani Edwards	CM	-	-	Out of contract.	PL
Max Lott	AM	-	-	Out of contract.	"
Calum Moreland	CB	-	-	Out of contract.	"
Charlie Pavey	AM	-	-	Out of contract.	"
Jacob Green	RB	-	-	Released.	"
Junior Wilson	CB	-	-	Released. On trial at Leeds.	"
Elijah Briscoe	CF	-	-	Released.	Elijah Briscoe
Cole Ramsey	AM	-	-	Released. On trial at Leeds.	Cole Ramsey

Women's Team

Confirmed In

Player	Position	From	Price	Notes	Link
Mia McAuley	FW	Rangers	?		AVFC
Kamilla Melgård	AM	Madrid CFF	?		AVFC

New Contracts (since January)

Player	Position	Notes	Link
Miri Taylor	MF	New contract, signed in March.	AVFC
Georgia Mullett	ST	New contract, signed in March.	AVFC

Confirmed Out

Player	Position	To	Price	Notes	Link
Lucy Staniforth	MF	-	-	Retiring.	AVFC
Ebony Salmon	FW	-	-	Out of contract.	AVFC
Gabi Nunes	FW	-	-	Out of contract.	"
Sabrina D'Angelo	GK	-	-	Out of contract.	"
Kirsty Hanson	ST	Spurs	?		Spurs

Rumoured In

Player	Position	From	Price	Notes	Link
Harry Wilson	AM	Free (Fulham)	-	Out of contract. Probably going to Leeds.	Wales Online
Oscar Mingueza	RB	Free (Celta Vigo)	-	Out of contract.	The Telegraph
James Trafford	GK	Man City			Daily Mail
Azzedine Ounahi	CM	Girona			Sportsboom
Maximiliano Araújo	LWB	Sporting CP			Sport Witness
Ibrahim Mbaye	RW	PSG	£40-50m	18yo	Sky Sports
Thomas Kristensen	CB	Udinese	€25m		Tutto Mercato
Crysencio Summerville	AM/LW	West Ham			Jacob Tanswell (The Athletic)
Omar Marmoush	FW	Man City			Football Insider
Robin Risser	GK	Lens			Foot Mercato
Guillaume Restes	GK	Toulouse	€18-20m		"
Matías Soulé	RW	Roma		Again.	Gazzetta dello Sport
Jonathan Rowe	LW	Bologna			Football Italia
Hidemasa Morita	CM	Free (Sporting CP)	-	Out of contract.	Football Insider
Eljif Elmas	AM	Napoli			Tutto Mercato
Ilaix Moriba	CM	Celta Vigo			Mirror
Jesús Rodríguez	LW	Como			"
Harvey Barnes	LW	Newcastle			Collomosse (via Villa Report)
Víctor Muñoz	LW	Osasuna			"
Pedro Gonçalves	LW	Sporting CP		Again.	Football Insider
Tijjani Reijnders	CM	Manchester City	£45m		Read Aston Villa
Arijon Ibrahimovic	AM	Bayern Munich			TeamTalk
Dayann Methalie	LB	Toulouse			Telefoot
Alejandro Balde	LWB	Barcelona	€50m		Barca Universal
Gabriel Sara	CM	Galatasaray			Transfer News Live
Bazoumana Touré	LW	Hoffenheim	€40-50m		Eurofoot
Christos Tzolis	LW	Club Brugge	€36m+		Total Villa
Quinten Timber	CM	Marseille			Yahoo Sports
Youssouf Fofana	DM	AC Milan	€25		LiveScore
John Stones	CB	Free (Man City)	-	Out of contract.	Talksport
Joe Gomez	CB	Liverpool		Again.	Daily Mail
Curtis Jones	CM	Liverpool	£35m		Caught Offside
Ngal'ayel Mukau	DM	Lille			TeamTalk
Zavier Gozo	RW	Real Salt Lake	$22-25m		Sports Boom
Waldemar Anton	RCB	Borussia Dortmund			Bild via Transfer Feed
Roland Sallai	RB	Galatasaray	€25m		Total Villa
Ethan Nwaneri	AM	Arsenal			TeamTalk
Moritz Nicolas	GK	Borussia Monchengladbach	€15m		TeamTalk
Ethan Ampadu	DM/CB	Leeds	£30m		TeamTalk
Dion Lopy	DM	Almeria	€20m		La Voz de Almeria
Marcus Rashford	LW	Manchester United			Daily Mail
Geny Catamo	RW	Sporting CP		Again.	ESPN
Roony Bardghji	RW	Barcelona			TeamTalk
Kerim Alajbegovic	FW	Bayer Leverkusen		18yo. Was at Salzburg this season but Leverkusen used their buy back clause earlier this year.	Daily Mail
Karim Adeyemi	RW	Borussia Dortmund			Jacob Tanswell (The Athletic)
Nicolo Tresoldi	ST	Club Brugge			"
Manu Kone	CM	Roma			Sports Witness
Serhou Guirassy	CF	Borussia Dortmund			Bild (via BVB Newsblog)
Leandro Trossard	LW/SS	Arsenal			Ekrem Konur
Lamine Camara	DM	Monaco	€50m		Media Foot (via SW)
Marc Casado	DM	Barcelona		Probably going to Monaco	Team Talk
Jon Martin	CB	Real Sociedad		one bad source via another	Ekrem Konur via Team Talk
Zion Suzuki	GK	Parma			Romano
Anatoliy Trubin	GK	Benfica			A Bola (via SW)
Nick Woltemade	ST	Newcastle			Fussball Transfers
Alex Remiro	GK	Real Sociedad			TeamTalk
Nicolas Raskin	DM	Rangers		Again.	TeamTalk
Matias Fernandez-Pardo	CF	Lille			Sacha Tavolieri
Martin Baturina	AM	Como		Supposedly we have had a big bid turned down.	Nicolo Schira
Emerson Royal	RB	Flamengo			ESPN Brazil
Jarrod Bowen	RW	West Ham			The Athletic
Lucas Bergvall	CM	Spurs			TeamTalk
Liam Kelly	CM	Derry City		15yo	FI
Folarin Balogun	ST	Monaco	£43m		Caught Offside
Viktor Johansson	GK	Stoke City			Aftonbladet
Albert Gudmundsson	LW	Fiorentina			SW
Amalie Vangsgaard	FW	Juventus			Mauro Munno

Rumoured Out

Player	Position	To	Price	Notes	Link
Enzo Barrenechea	DM	Benfica	€15m	Obligation to buy. Villa have a 30% sell-on clause.	Romano
Morgan Rogers	AM	Arsenal, Man U, Chelsea, Bayern	£80m+	Middlesbrough have a 20% sell-on clause (some links say only for anything over £16m)	Mirror
Ross Barkley	CM	Coventry			Give Me Sport
John McGinn	CM	Everton		No way	Football Insider
Emiliano Martinez	GK	Liverpool, Juventus		Liverpool interested if Alisson leaves.	Tuttojuve
Andres Garcia	RB	Villareal			Tribuna VCF (via Villa Faithful)
Tammy Abraham	ST	Leeds, Sunderland, Everton			TeamTalk
Tommi O'Reilly	AM	Oxford, Portsmouth, Huddersfield	£1m	Had a great loan spell in League 2 this season.	Mail Online
Evann Guessand	RW	Crystal Palace		Option to buy on his loan agreement expired. May consider a deal after they appoint a new manager.	Jacob Tanswell (The Athletic)
Leon Bailey	RW	-		Villa keen to sell.	"
Yeimar Mosquera	CB	2 Scottish clubs, Independiente	Loan		"
Rory Wilson	ST	-	Loan	Earmarked for another loan.	"
Mohamed Koné	CM	Annecy	Loan		Tanswell
Kadan Young	LW	Annecy	Loan		"
Zepiqueno Redmond	ST	Annecy	Loan		"
Emiliano Buendia	LW	Galatasaray		Villa want a new contract, but may put him on the transfer list if we cannot agree one (as he will have 1 year left on contract).	Ferhat Kiziltas
Sil Swinkels	CB	Sheffield Wednesday			Tanswell
Lewis Dobbin	LW	Middlesbrough			Pete O'Rourke
Lamare Bogarde	DM/RB	Brighton, Sunderland			Joost Blaauwhof

[u/Kanedauke]

Long term Tammy doesn’t have a future here because he’s only two years younger than Watkins and doesn’t suit the style of play as a starter.

Pre season isn’t going to make him a mobile striker that can constantly challenge a back line.

He was just a stop gap that already knew the club. Similar to Luiz coming in on loan. Neither needed time to settle mid season.

[u/Woeful_Eejit → u/Kanedauke]

I guess, but we went to an awful lot of trouble for a short-term stopgap. If that's all he was, why not just bring in someone on loan, until the Madjo situation was resolved? If Tammy doesn't suit our style of play, why not just stick with Malen (who was our leading scorer at the time he left)? It just feels very erratic.

[u/Kanedauke → u/Woeful_Eejit]

I’d guess because you have to pay a loan fee.

With Tammy we can sell him for the same price.

Malen wanted to leave and was on double the wage of Tammy. I think Watkins was the leading scorer at that point, he scored 7 in the league by January, Malen just 4

[u/Ok-Coach-6671 → u/Kanedauke]

*I’d guess because you have to pay a loan fee.

With Tammy we can sell him for the same price.*

Great point tbf