Aston Villa to lose key figure amid difficult summer and poor start to Premier League season

Monchi will leave his role as president of football operations at Aston Villa, talkSPORT understands. The Spaniard will depart just two years after he joined from Sevilla as Villa begin to feel the effects of a difficult summer transfer window. Monchi is leaving in a big blow to Villa at the start of the seasonGetty His exit also comes amid a dreadful start to the 2025/26 season. Unai Emery’s side are 18th and winless in the Premier League following their 1-1 draw away at ten-man Sunderland on Sunday. Sources close to Monchi suggest that he felt he took Villa as far as he could due to the financial constraints at the club. Monchi is also understood to have wanted more financial support to sign Marcus Rashford and Marco Asensio on permanent deals. Rashford shone on loan last season although was an unlikely target this summer due to his desire to play for Barcelona. Asensio, however, signed for Fenerbahce for €7million after he also impressed during a temporary spell at Villa. Several members of the club were left surprised with the small fee and how Villa did not act quicker in the market. However, it’s not clear if Monchi agrees with this view. European qualification to the bottom three Villa were very much a club on the rise last season as they reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League. They fell to eventual winners Paris Saint-Germain, before finishing sixth in the Premier League to qualify for the Europa League. Villa have slumped into the relegation zone after five gamesGetty But their 2025/26 campaign began with a 0-0 draw at home against Newcastle and then a 1-0 defeat away to Brentford. A 3-0 loss to Crystal Palace followed before another stalemate, this time at Everton. Brentford beat them once again in the third round of the Carabao Cup, this time on penalties in west London. Matty Cash then scored their only league goal of the season so far away at Sunderland but the hosts fought back to leave them winless. The late loan signings of Jadon Sancho and Harvey Elliott signalled an increase in attacking talent in the Vila squad. However, even last season’s top scorer Ollie Watkins is yet to find the back of the net. Emery and Monchi worked together at Sevilla before VillaGetty Evann Guessand was their biggest signing in a reported £30.5million move from Nice, but he has made only two league starts. Villa and Emery will seek their first win of the campaign when they host Bologna in the Europa League on Thursday, live on talkSPORT.

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Monchi will leave his role as president of football operations at Aston Villa, talkSPORT understands.

The Spaniard will depart just two years after he joined from Sevilla as Villa begin to feel the effects of a difficult summer transfer window.

His exit also comes amid a dreadful start to the 2025/26 season.

Unai Emery’s side are 18th and winless in the Premier League following their 1-1 draw away at ten-man Sunderland on Sunday.

Sources close to Monchi suggest that he felt he took Villa as far as he could due to the financial constraints at the club.

Monchi is also understood to have wanted more financial support to sign Marcus Rashford and Marco Asensio on permanent deals.

Rashford shone on loan last season although was an unlikely target this summer due to his desire to play for Barcelona.

Asensio, however, signed for Fenerbahce for €7million after he also impressed during a temporary spell at Villa.

Several members of the club were left surprised with the small fee and how Villa did not act quicker in the market.

However, it’s not clear if Monchi agrees with this view.

Villa were very much a club on the rise last season as they reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

They fell to eventual winners Paris Saint-Germain, before finishing sixth in the Premier League to qualify for the Europa League.

But their 2025/26 campaign began with a 0-0 draw at home against Newcastle and then a 1-0 defeat away to Brentford.

A 3-0 loss to Crystal Palace followed before another stalemate, this time at Everton.

Brentford beat them once again in the third round of the Carabao Cup, this time on penalties in west London.

Matty Cash then scored their only league goal of the season so far away at Sunderland but the hosts fought back to leave them winless.

The late loan signings of Jadon Sancho and Harvey Elliott signalled an increase in attacking talent in the Vila squad.

However, even last season’s top scorer Ollie Watkins is yet to find the back of the net.

Evann Guessand was their biggest signing in a reported £30.5million move from Nice, but he has made only two league starts.

Villa and Emery will seek their first win of the campaign when they host Bologna in the Europa League on Thursday, live on talkSPORT.