The transfer of the Brazilian Diego Carlos Santos from Seville to Aston Villa English has been closed once the defender has passed the medical tests and has signed the contract with his new team, the Sevilla club reported this Wednesday in a statement.
Both entities reached an agreement in principle on May 26 for the incorporation of the Brazilian center-back to the Birmingham team, as Sevilla recalls, at the expense of those two requirements now fulfilled, with which “the operation has been completely closed”, he specifies. the note.
Sevilla reiterates its “thanks” to Diego Carlos “for his work in these last three seasons” in the team from the Nervión neighborhood, with which he was proclaimed champion of the Europa League in 2020, and wishes him “the best of luck in the future”.
The figures of the transfer to Aston Villa of the Brazilian, 29 years old and who arrived at Sevilla in the summer of 2019 from the French Nantes, have not been officially disclosed, although some British media indicated that it reaches 31 million euros without including variables for objectives.
diego charles He had a contract with the Sevilla club until June 2024 and in his three seasons at the Andalusian club he has played 136 games and scored seven goals, and has been champion of the Europa League in the 2019-20 campaign, in addition to qualifying in the three courses for the Champions League under the command of coach Julen Lopetegui.
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In that final of the Europa League played in Cologne (Germany) against Inter Milan (3-2), the Brazilian defender scored the decisive goal for his team to lift its sixth champion trophy of this tournament with a spectacular bicycle kick that ended into the net after touching Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku.
Olympic champion with Brazil at the Tokyo 2020 Games, he played 35 LaLiga games in his first year as a Sevilla player, 33 in the second and 34 in the recently completed season, meaning that since his arrival he has only lost twelve league games in total, Sevilla highlighted.
In addition, in these three seasons Diego Carlos played 14 Champions League games, 10 Europa League games, 9 Copa del Rey games and one European Super Cup game.