Aston Villa have accomplished the signing of Donyell Malen from Borussia Dortmund in a deal price a complete of simply over £20m.
Villa have paid an preliminary £21m however the deal may very well be price £27.7m together with performance-related add-ons.
Malen has scored 5 targets throughout 20 video games in all competitions this season for Dortmund, netting of their final recreation, a 3-1 Bundesliga win at Wolfsburg.
The previous Arsenal academy participant has discovered the again of the web a complete of 39 instances in 131 appearances for Dortmund in three-and-a-half years with the German giants.
The Dutchman joined Dortmund from PSV Eindhoven in July 2021 for a reported £26m, changing Jadon Sancho who made a transfer to Manchester United earlier that summer time.
Malen spent two years at Arsenal’s academy earlier than being offered to PSV in the summertime of 2017.
Villa’s pursuit of Malen pays off
Sky Sports activities Information senior reporter Rob Dorsett:
“It has been one they have been pursuing for a long time.
“We all know that Villa have had slightly little bit of a downturn in latest weeks, however they needed Malen, they’ve been pursuing him for a while, and so they needed to get that to occur.”
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