Santander League 2021 – 2022
Transfers
Aston Villa has confirmed this Thursday that it has reached an agreement in principle with the Seville club for the transfer of the Brazilian central defender
Aston Villa confirmed this Thursday that they have reached an agreement in principle with Sevilla for the transfer of the central defender diego charles, for an amount of money that has not been disclosed. As indicated by the club in a statement, the player will travel to Birmingham in the next few hours to complete the medical examination and finalize the signing of documents for his incorporation into the English team.
Sevilla wishes the Brazilian central defender “the best of luck in your new professional stage” and want “thank the player for all these years” in the Seville team, which he arrived in the summer of 2019 from French Nantes.
Diego Carlos, who turned 29 last March and who had a valid contract with Sevilla until June 2024, has completed three seasons at the Andalusian club, in whose team he has played 136 games, scored seven goals and has been champion of the Europa League in the 2019-20 campaign. In addition, he qualified in the three courses for the Champions League under the orders of coach Julen Lopetegui.
“Principle Agreement”
Sevilla, in a statement, points out that “have reached an agreement in principle“for the transfer of the center-back to the Birmingham team, “at the expense of passing the medical examination to which he will be subjected in England and formalizing the details of his contract“.
The Seville entity recalls that Diego Carlos achieved in that final of the Europa League played in Cologne (Germany) against the Italian Inter Milan (3-2) the “decisive goal” for his team to lift the sixth champion trophy of this tournament with “a spectacular Chilean that ended up in the net after playing in the Belgian Lukaku“.
“Diego Carlos stood out from his first games as a red and white and it didn’t take long for him to become a fundamental piece in Julen Lopetegui’s scheme. In fact, he completed 35 league games in 2019/20, 33 in 2020/21 and 34 in 2021/22, missing only 12 league games during his stay in Seville“recalls the club.
In addition, it completes its statistics with 14 Champions League games, 10 Europa League games, 9 Copa del Rey games and one European Super Cup game.
As a Sevilla player, Diego Carlos received his first call-up to the Brazilian national team and was called up to play the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games last summer, where he won the gold medal.
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