{"id":624813,"date":"2023-06-29T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=624813"},"modified":"2023-06-29T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T18:05:43","slug":"pau-torres-villa-liverpool-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/29\/pau-torres-villa-liverpool-tottenham\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Here We Go&#8217;: Club Now Set to Sign Bargain \u00a335m Star After Agreement Reached &#8211; Medicals Already Being Scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After leading his team to an outstanding 2022\/23 Premier League campaign that resulted in a 7th-place finish, Unai Emery is looking to improve his squad in the hope of repeating &#8211; and even furthering &#8211; this success. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1674400529194135552\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>, the former La Liga manager has found a player to do just that at his former stomping ground in Villareal CF. Aston Villa and the Yellow Submarine have agreed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2023\/jun\/29\/aston-villa-agree-35m-deal-to-sign-pau-torres-from-villarreal\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a335 million<\/a> move for a player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12234173\/Man-United-turn-Holland-midfield-fix-Aston-Villa-chase-Rolls-Royce-centre-back.html?ico=topics_pagination_desktop\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">admired by both Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool<\/a>: Pau Torres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/21\/liverpool-gamble-future-khephren-thuram\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool Plan Dangerous Bid for \u00a334 Million Star After Reports of Barella Interest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Romano has now given his &#8220;here we go&#8221; on this deal, claiming that a contract has been agreed upon between the defender and the midlands club while medicals are already being scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>[metabet_core_side_odds_tile query=&#8221;soe\/tottenham_hotspur&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;metabet-website&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Aston Villa Set to Sign Tottenham and Liverpool-Admired Pau Torres<\/h2>\n<h3>How Aston Villa Will Utilize Pau Torres<\/h3>\n<p>Having conquered the Europa League together in the 20\/21 season, Emery will likely start Torres in the left centre-back role. Despite this spot being occupied by Tyrone Mings, the left-footed Spaniard is four years younger and has more experience in European tournaments: an undoubtedly valuable quality considering Villa&#8217;s upcoming campaign in the UEFA Conference League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/29\/declan-rice-arsenal-fabrizio-romano\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal Secure Signing of Champions League Winner Kai Havertz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the centre-back can live up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedinfocus.com\/news\/looking-back-at-owen-hargreaves-praise-of-pau-torres-as-manchester-united-ponder-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Madrid potential<\/a> that he is said to have, the Villans could not only compete but excel in their first campaign abroad since the 2010\/11 season.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Torres&#8217; reliable defending, Emery will likely take advantage of his passing attributes as well. The 26-year-old was 4th in Spain&#8217;s top-flight last season when it comes to completed passes.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside new teammate Youri Tielemans, the pair could very well improve the quality of ball distribution at Villa Park: allowing for more goals to be scored in the process.<\/p>\n<h3>Unpredictable 2023\/24 Season From Tottenham to Liverpool to Villa<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Where are the BEST VALUE Season Tickets in Football? #shorts\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8LutC6KtvG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although this transfer will certainly upgrade the defence of the Birmingham-based club, it&#8217;s very uncertain where they will finish this season.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/28\/tottenham-beat-newcastle-james-maddison-signing\/\" target=\"_self\">James Maddison<\/a> among those signing for Tottenham Hotspur, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/05\/liverpool-manchester-united-alexis-mac-allister-hwg\/\" target=\"_self\">Alexis Mac Allister<\/a> going to Liverpool, and Chelsea already acquiring a host of players, it appears that the competition at the top of the table is substantially improving: posing a threat to Villa&#8217;s spot.<\/p>\n<p>However, their newest recruit should certainly offer a solution when it comes to consistency, a much-need characteristic for teams in the top half of the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Main image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2ooqrPL\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phil Base<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-NC 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After leading his team to an outstanding 2022\/23 Premier League campaign that resulted in a 7th-place finish, Unai Emery is looking to improve his squad in the hope of repeating &#8211; and even furthering &#8211; this success. According to Fabrizio Romano, the former La Liga manager has found a player to do just that at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4552,"featured_media":624821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3838,6,16,3,7188,24],"tags":[9848,7298,5876,7466],"class_list":["post-624813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aston-villa","category-la-liga","category-liverpool","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-tottenham","tag-aston-villa-transfer-rumours","tag-liverpool-transfer-rumours","tag-pau-torres","tag-tottenham-hotspur-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624813","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\/4552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}