{"id":566493,"date":"2020-09-19T05:29:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=566493"},"modified":"2020-09-19T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T09:30:53","slug":"aston-villa-complete-signing-of-bertrand-traore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/19\/aston-villa-complete-signing-of-bertrand-traore\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa Complete Signing of Bertrand Traore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Following the completion of deals for <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/aed3a70f\/Ollie-Watkins\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ollie Watkins<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/7956236f\/Emiliano-Martinez\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emiliano Martinez,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/aston-villa-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_self\">Aston Villa<\/a> have made their third signing of the summer with the arrival of Bertrand Traore. The 25-year-old arrives on a reported figure of \u00a317 million, plus add ons, signing a four-year deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">His arrival signifies clear Aston Villa plans to do more than survive this season. They have shown ambition through the transfer market to become a mid-table club and a constant feature in the Premier League for years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Aston Villa Complete Traore Signing<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Traor%C3%A9Announced?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Traor\u00e9Announced<\/a> \u2705<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVFCOfficial\/status\/1307244036147884032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The End of Any Goalscoring Woes<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last season was a nightmare for Aston Villa in front of goal. Summer signing <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/7f7ad37a\/Wesley\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wesley<\/a> netted just the five <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_self\">Premier League<\/a> goals before picking up a season-ending injury<a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/dae8623e\/Mbwana-Samatta\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">. Mbwana Samatta<\/a> then arrived in January before scoring once in 14 Premier League appearances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">An attacking revamp was needed, and it has been delivered. Ollie Watkins could bring 15 goals a season, while Traore could be the man to supply him. Aston Villa have got themselves an attack worthy of Premier League survival and much much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What Was Said?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After securing the new signing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/september\/Villa-announce-Traore-signing\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dean Smith said<\/a>: &#8220;We\u2019re delighted that Bertrand has chosen to come to Villa. He\u2019s a player with immense talent who will really enhance our attacking options.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bertrand Traore then told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/september\/Traore-I-m-very-happy-to-join-Aston-Villa\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club website<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m very happy to join Aston Villa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI\u2019m happy to be here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI played with JT at Chelsea, I spoke to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI spoke to the Manager, spoke with the Sporting Director as well and some players I used to play with \u2013 Nakamba and El Ghazi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI spoke to Nakamba, I talked to him a little bit about the club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cMany things made me take the decision to come here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The new arrival will want to make himself at home as soon as possible as he prepares to make his Aston Villa debut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"t7VZSS28RGtGJwLasMQhbw\" 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\/1263111683\" 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:'t7VZSS28RGtGJwLasMQhbw',sig:'wtPkxHxz986DYlbdu5faiZZkU-qg4hop8YN6p0wM6PA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1263111683',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the completion of deals for Ollie Watkins and Emiliano Martinez, Aston Villa have made their third signing of the summer with the arrival of Bertrand Traore. The 25-year-old arrives on a reported figure of \u00a317 million, plus add ons, signing a four-year deal. His arrival signifies clear Aston Villa plans to do more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":566498,"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":[1,3838,3,28],"tags":[177,1131,2589,4687,4249,3861,136],"class_list":["post-566493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-aston-villa","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-aston-villa","tag-bertrand-traore","tag-grealish","tag-mbwana-samatta","tag-ollie-watkins","tag-wesley-moraes","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566493","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\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}