{"id":490894,"date":"2019-07-25T09:50:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=490894"},"modified":"2019-07-25T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T13:50:34","slug":"aston-villas-spending-douglas-luiz-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/07\/25\/aston-villas-spending-douglas-luiz-manchester-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa&#8217;s Spending Spree Continues With Addition of Douglas Luiz From Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/aston-villa-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aston Villa<\/a> have continued their astonishing <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/football-transfer-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spending spree<\/a> with the addition of Douglas Luiz from <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/manchestercityfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City<\/a>. The midfielder arrives for an undisclosed fee and the deal is subject to a work permit being granted.<\/p>\n<h2>Aston Villa&#8217;s Spending Continues With Douglas Luiz Signing<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are delighted to confirm the signing of Douglas Luiz from Manchester City, subject to a work permit. \u270d<\/p>\n<p>? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UvIoseTarS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/UvIoseTarS<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeLuiz?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeLuiz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThursdayMotivation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ThursdayMotivation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AVFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AVFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mLDTUoJeWo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/mLDTUoJeWo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVFCOfficial\/status\/1154383344198717441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Career So Far<\/h3>\n<p>Luiz was named as the Player of the Tournament at the recent Toulon Tournament, playing in the Brazil U21 side that won the competition.<\/p>\n<p>He came through the ranks at hometown side Vasco da Gama before being snapped up by City in 2017. However, he never made an appearance for the current Premier League champions.<\/p>\n<p>Luiz spent the last two seasons on loan at Italian side Girona, where he made over 50 appearances across the two campaigns.<\/p>\n<h3>What They Said<\/h3>\n<p>Villa manager Dean Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avfc.co.uk\/News\/2019\/07\/25\/douglas-luiz-arrives\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the club website<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cDouglas is an extremely talented young player with an outstanding pedigree who I am sure will fit nicely into our style and system of play.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>More to Come?<\/h3>\n<p>Douglas becomes Villa&#8217;s tenth signing of the summer but there are more signings to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/transfer-centre\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky Sports<\/a> have reported that the Villains have agreed a deal to sign Club Brugge midfielder Marvelous Nakamba, with the Zimbabwe international refusing to train with the club since a first bid from Villa was rejected last month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2019\/07\/25\/aston-villa-sign-marvelous-nakamba-summer-spending-pass-100m\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph&#8217;s<\/a> John Percy reports that the fee for Nakamba is \u00a311 million which, with the signing of Luiz too, takes the club&#8217;s spending well over the \u00a3100 million mark so far in this window.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has been one of Villa&#8217;s top priorities this summer as they return to the Premier League for the first time since 2015, and a medical for Nakamba has been scheduled for today.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"qmSQl1dnTrZOTHlObxGo-g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1158422105\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'qmSQl1dnTrZOTHlObxGo-g',sig:'cBhBN1Ui73172fEGWtX7xL1azWrgFNX1t3rpqeMjhJU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1158422105',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa have continued their astonishing spending spree with the addition of Douglas Luiz from Manchester City. The midfielder arrives for an undisclosed fee and the deal is subject to a work permit being granted. Aston Villa&#8217;s Spending Continues With Douglas Luiz Signing &nbsp; We are delighted to confirm the signing of Douglas Luiz from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":490932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3838,17,3,28],"tags":[177,3978,100,40,136],"class_list":["post-490894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-aston-villa","category-manchester-city","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-aston-villa","tag-douglas-luiz","tag-manchester-city","tag-premier-league","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}