Aston Villa add Jose Angel Crespo capture to Jordan Ayew signing

Jordan joins his older brother Andre, also a former Marseille attacker, in the Premier League, after the elder Ayew sibling signed for Swansea City on a free transfer following his release from Marcelo Bielsa’s L’OM.

The two could come up against each other when the Villans and Swans meet in the Premier League at Villa Park on October 24th.

In Ayew, Sherwood’s side have bought a proven scorer at both club and international level. He represents Ghana, the nation of his famous father Abedi Pele, and helped them to the final of the 2015 Africa Cup of nations in Equatorial Guinea.

Villa have done well to win the race to sign Ayew, as the likes of German giants Borussia Dortmund and Everton were reportedly linked with him.

The West Midlands club will be happy to have signed talent following the departures of high-profile players such as Benteke, Fabian Delph and Shay Given this summer. Darren Bent, Andreas Weimann, Antonio Luna, Yacouba Sylla and Matthew Lowton have also all left in the past couple of months.

Ayew joins Scott Sinclair, Micah Richards, Mark Bunn, Idrissa Gueye and Jordan Amavi as new recruits in Villa’s ranks, the latter two of which were brought in from France too.

The Villans have also officially announced capture of Spanish full back Jose Angel Crespo, in a further attempt to shore up their backline, and have reportedly agreed a deal with the defender’s current club Cordoba, who were relegated from La Liga last campaign.

Crespo, aged 28, can be deployed on either defensive flank and came through the ranks at Sevilla, later enjoying stints in Italy, before returning to his home nation with Cordoba, for who he made 29 appearances.