Moussa Diaby before moving from Bayer Leverkusen to Aston Villa

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Moussa Diaby has chosen: for Aston Villa and Premier League football, against Al-Nassr FC and crosses for Cristiano Ronaldo (38). After “The Athletic” reported on Tuesday about a new offer from the club from Birmingham for 50 million euros, wrote on Thursday first “sky“that Bayer 04 Leverkusen accepted – Fabrizio Romano gave his famous “Here we go” in the evening. A confirmation from the clubs is still pending.

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According to this, the “Werkself” collects the market value amount excluding bonuses – this could increase the price for the 24-year-old winger again. For Bayer, the upcoming departure of Diaby is the second most financially lucrative in the club’s history, only Kai Havertz brought in Leverkusen even more when he switched to Chelsea in 2020 with 80 million euros. He overtakes ex-colleague Leon Bailey (25), who has been playing for the “Villans” since 2021. Aston Villa post record spending on the Frenchman’s transfer fee: Diaby overtakes his future team-mate and right-wing rival Emiliano Buendía, 26, who joined from Norwich in 2021 for £38.4m.

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Aston Villa and Al-Nassr had recently been in a head-to-head race for Diaby’s services, but Bayer is said to have been unhappy with the offers at first because they wanted €60m for the nine-time international.

Aston Villa in terms of squad value without Diaby already ahead of Bayer Leverkusen

After mediocre years and a detour to the 2nd division under coach Unai Emery, the “Villans” have higher ambitions again and want to underline these with a strong summer of transfers in order to attack the Champions League ranks in 2023/24. The squad value of the Conference League participant is already €552m after the well-known additions of Pau Torres (26; for €33m from Villarreal) and Youri Tielemans (26; free transfer from Leicester). The Bayer squad, which starts in the Europa League, is currently the second most valuable in the Bundesliga at €473m.

Diaby, who is under contract in Leverkusen until 2025, currently has a market value of €50m, his career high was €60m in 2022. Bayer has said goodbye to eight players so far this summer, only Mitchel Bakker (23; Atalanta) paid a noteworthy fee of 10 million euros. Diaby was brought in as a talent from Paris Saint-Germain in 2019 for €15m and has since collected 97 points in 172 games for Bayer.

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