{"id":1161523,"date":"2020-09-18T17:51:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1161523"},"modified":"2020-09-18T17:51:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:51:34","slug":"biggest-transfer-stories-you-may-have-missed-this-week","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/biggest-transfer-stories-you-may-have-missed-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"“For Depay to arrive, Barcelona must sell” – Biggest transfer stories this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s so many actual<\/em> football games going on right now. Who\u2019s got time to stay<\/b> across all the major transfer news?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So just in case they passed you by while you were reading about Gareth Bale\u2019s next club, here are five of the past week\u2019s biggest transfer stories condensed into one 10-minute read.<\/p>\n

1. Everything’s coming up Villa!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Aston Villa just about survived their first season back in the Premier League. But now they get another shot at the big time, they’ll want to make a better go of it this time and begin to climb the table.<\/p>\n

To this end, they’ve gone about spending some money. First they’ve found a new goalkeeper in Emiliano Martinez, the Argentine who shone for Arsenal at the end of last season as they claimed the FA Cup (and then won the Community Shield last month). The move was prematurely confirmed by Martinez’s wife on social media before being announced by the club with a farewell interview on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Emiliano Martinez wife just confirmed that Emiliano is a new Aston Villa player! Best of luck Emi, we still love you! ?\u26aa\u2764\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/yMagCLpmCB<\/a><\/p>\n

— MichaelAFC (@GunnerMichael_) September 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n