Spain defender Torres joins Emery at Aston Villa
Sevilla FC - Villarreal CF. La Liga Santander Pau Torres of Villarreal during the La Liga match between Sevilla FC and Villarreal CF played at Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium on April 23, 2023 in Sevilla, Spain. (PHOTO/Reuters)
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Spanish
international defender Pau Torres has been reunited with Aston Villa manager
Unai Emery after joining the Premier League club from Villarreal on Wednesday.
Torres, 26,
will join Villa for a reported fee of £35 million ($45 million).
The
centre-back was a key part of the Villarreal side that won the Europa League
under Emery in 2021 and reached the Champions League semi-finals the following
year.
Torres, who
has been capped 23 times by Spain, was a product of the Villarreal youth
academy and made 123 appearances for his boyhood club.
He becomes
Villa's second signing of the transfer window after the arrival of Belgian
international midfielder Youri Tielemans from Leicester.
Villa are in
Europe next season for the first time since 2010 after Emery oversaw a
remarkable transformation in his first season in charge.
A
seventh-place finish in the Premier League was enough to secure a place in the
Europa Conference League.
Villa sat
just outside the relegation zone when Emery replaced the sacked Steve Gerrard
in October.
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