The January transfer window is here and it’s expected to be a busy one across the Premier League as clubs begin buying and selling players once again.
Unai Emery will take charge of his first transfer window at Villa Park and it remains to be seen which positions he will look to strengthen or add depth to. In the past, January transfer windows at the Midlands clubs have seen big money arrivals come through the doors while others have been quiet or even gone by without any new arrivals.
Here we take a look back at the last nine January transfer windows for Aston Villa. This is how much cash they splashed in each and who the biggest arrival of each window was:
1. 2021 - £27 million
Lucas Digne was the big money signing last January, arriving from Everton for £25m while young defender Kerr Smith arrived form Dundee United for £2m and Calum Chambers was a free transfer
2. 2020 - £14m
Morgan Sanson’s arrival from Marseillie for £14m was the only bit of incoming business done in January 2020 with the club having spent big on other players earlier in the Covid-19 disrupted campaign
3. 2019 - £9.4m
Striker Mbwana Samatta arrived from Genk for £8.5m while young forward Louie Barry was an £880k signing for the youth team and Borja Bastón came in on a free transfer
4. 2018 - £11.4m
The fees for the two signings in this window were undisclosed but Lovre Kalinić arrived for a reported £7m from Gent while Frédéric Guilbert is said to have cost £4.4m from Caen