Aston Villa complete Pau Torres signing from Villarreal

Aston Villa person announced the signing of Spain centre-back Pau Torres from Villarreal for an undisclosed fee.

The defender, a merchandise of the club's younker system, played a pivotal relation arsenic Villarreal finished 5th successful La Liga past season.

He made 173 appearances for his boyhood team, scoring 12 times, and has played 23 times for Spain.

When helium made his archetypal Villarreal quality successful 2016, helium became the archetypal subordinate calved successful the tiny Valencian municipality to debut for the nine successful 13 years.

Torres rapidly established himself arsenic a cardinal subordinate successful the squad, winning the 2021 Europa League nether Emery erstwhile helium was among the scorers successful the punishment shootout triumph implicit Manchester United.

He made his debut for Spain successful 2019 and has played some astatine Euro 2020 and the 2022 World Cup.

More to follow.