{"id":14663,"date":"2023-07-04T13:11:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasfootball.com\/?p=14663"},"modified":"2023-07-06T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T17:19:12","slug":"ben-brereton-diaz-signs-for-villarreal-on-a-free-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasfootball.com\/ben-brereton-diaz-signs-for-villarreal-on-a-free-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Brereton Diaz Signs for Villarreal on a Free Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Villarreal<\/strong>\u00a0have completed the signing of\u00a0<strong>Ben Brereton Diaz<\/strong>\u00a0from Blackburn Rovers on a free transfer after the expiry of his contract. The 24-year-old Chilean international has agreed to a four-year contract with the La Liga club, keeping him at Villarreal until the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1655677111032504322\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">end of the 2026\/27 season.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brereton Diaz has been a key player for Blackburn Rovers, scoring 47 goals during his time at the Championship side. In September 2021, he was awarded the Player of the Month for scoring six goals in five consecutive matches, including a hat-trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udc01\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc20 \ud835\udc01\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc27. \ud835\udc03\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc28: \ud835\udc15\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc25\ud835\udc25\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc25 \ud835\udc02\ud835\udc05. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dqmQMGtHIM\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dqmQMGtHIM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Villarreal CF (@VillarrealCF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VillarrealCF\/status\/1676174131690188800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>The striker is expected to undergo medical testing along with the rest of the Villarreal squad before completing his first training session under coach\u00a0<strong>Quique Seti\u00e9n<\/strong>\u00a0on July 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Villarreal secured Brereton Diaz&#8217;s signature despite interest from several Premier League clubs, including West Ham, Everton, and Leeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Villarreal\u00a0have completed the signing of\u00a0Ben Brereton Diaz\u00a0from Blackburn Rovers on a free transfer after the expiry of his contract. The 24-year-old Chilean international has agreed to a four-year contract with the La Liga club, keeping him at Villarreal until the end of the 2026\/27 season. Brereton Diaz has been a key player for Blackburn Rovers,&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,26],"tags":[634,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}