Aston Villa announce permanent signing of Taylor Harwood-Bellis from Southampton

[p]The deal is worth a reported £30 million, [a href="https://www.skysports.com/football/live-blog/11661/12476234/transfer-centre-live-football-transfer-news-updates-and-rumours?postid=12352642#liveblog-body"]as per Sky Sports. [/a][/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/aston-villa/W00wmLO0/"]Villa[/a] will pay £25 million plus £5 million in add-ons for the [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/southampton/WdKOwxDM/"]Saints[/a] defender. [/p][p]The 24-year-old has made 121 appearances for Southampton across four seasons, and netted seven times in the English Championship last season. [/p][embed guid="26cb2586-299a-4ba2-b4a3-8c12c7141965" url="https://x.com/AstonVilla/status/2094749612129366316" social-type="twitter" /][p]Villa have been keen to bring in defensive reinforcements following Ezri Konsa's summer move to Arsenal, as they look to improve on a disastrous start to the league season which has left them bottom of the Premier League table. [/p]