Jaden Philogene has completed his return to Aston Villa on a five-year contract.
The 22-year-old has re-joined Villa from Hull City, having joined the Championship club on a permanent deal in September 2023.
The Athletic reported earlier this month that Ipswich Town had agreed an £18million deal to sign Philogene with personal terms agreed, but Villa then moved to re-sign him by activating a matching rights clause they negotiated in the deal that saw him sold to Hull a year ago.
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Villa’s transfer outgoing was reduced by 30 per cent because of a sell-on clause that was also placed in the terms that took Philogene to Hull.
Last week, the Premier League club reached an agreement to re-sign the winger, who subsequently passed his medical this weekend ahead of completing his return to Villa Park.
Alongside Ipswich’s attempts to sign Philogene, Crystal Palace, Everton and West Ham United were also interested in signing the England Under-21 winger.
Philogene was part of Villa’s academy and broke into the first team in 2021. Loan moves to Stoke City and Cardiff City followed before he joined Hull in a £5m deal last summer.
He scored 12 goals in 32 games for Hull as they finished seventh in the Championship last season, three points adrift of the play-offs.
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