{"id":6028,"date":"2026-01-16T13:24:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6028"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:24:51","slug":"aston-villa-forward-donyell-malen-joins-roma-for-undisclosed-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6028","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa forward Donyell Malen joins Roma for undisclosed fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Netherlands forward Donyell Malen has joined Roma from <\/b><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Aston Villa<\/b><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> after just one year with the Premier League side.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Villa say the deal is for an undisclosed fee, a Roma statement says it is a loan with an option to buy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old scored 10 goals in 46 appearances for Villa after joining from Borussia Dortmund in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Malen has scored seven goals for Unai Emery&#8217;s side this season but has struggled for regular playing time, making only five league starts in 21 appearances this campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former Ajax and Arsenal youth player, Malen began his senior professional career at PSV Eindhoven before moving to Dortmund in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has scored 104 goals in 294 club appearances, as well as 13 goals in 49 games for the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will wear the number 14 shirt at Roma, who are currently fifth in Serie A.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netherlands forward Donyell Malen has joined Roma from Aston Villa after just one year with the Premier League side. While Villa say the deal is for an undisclosed fee, a Roma statement says it is a loan with an option to buy. The 26-year-old scored 10 goals in 46 appearances for Villa after joining from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}