{"id":199944,"date":"2024-07-15T14:50:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/15\/willy-kambwala-completes-permanent-man-utd-exit\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T14:50:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:50:45","slug":"willy-kambwala-completes-permanent-man-utd-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/15\/willy-kambwala-completes-permanent-man-utd-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Willy Kambwala completes permanent Man Utd exit \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Manchester United defender Willy Kambwala has completed a permanent transfer to Villarreal following last season\u2019s first-team breakthrough.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old has signed a long-term contract with the Spanish side until 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Kambwala made ten senior appearances for United in 2023\/24, largely the result of a defensive injury crisis that saw Raphael Varane, Lisandro Martinez, Harry Maguire, Victor Lindelof and Jonny Evans all miss games at various points of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Varane has since left the club as a free agent,\u00a0tipped to join Como in Serie A. But Evans has agreed a\u00a0contract extension\u00a0and United are expected to recruit at least one, possibly two, new centre-backs this summer, with Matthijs de Ligt, Jarrad Branthwaite and Leny Yoro all serious targets.<\/p>\n<p>A United statement on Kambwala read: \u201cWilly leaves with the sincere thanks of everyone at Manchester United, and our very best wishes for the next chapter of his career.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/01j2tx99n00f60c7xx63.jpg\" alt=\"Willy Kambwala\" title=\"Willy Kambwala\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Kambwala won the FA Cup with Man Utd in May \/ Marc Atkins\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>The Frenchman will hope the move to Villarreal, where he will link up with former United centre-back Eric Bailly, gives him greater opportunity for consistent game time.<\/p>\n<p>Kambwala was born in DR Congo but relocated to France with his family at the age of five. His career began at a local Paris club, before spending time at Sochaux and then moving to Manchester to join United\u2019s academy ranks in October 2020 shortly after turning 16.<\/p>\n<p>He played regularly in Premier League 2 and the UEFA Youth League in the first half of last season, but was promoted to the first-team squad in December and played 84 minutes of a Premier League defeat to West Ham United two days before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Further starts came against Liverpool and Bournemouth in April, while Kambwala also appeared as a substitute in clashes with Manchester City, Arsenal and others. In the FA Cup, he was an unused substitute for the final against City at Wembley in late May.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-1093-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-892335\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United defender Willy Kambwala has completed a permanent transfer to Villarreal following last season\u2019s first-team breakthrough. The 19-year-old has signed a long-term contract with the Spanish side until 2029. Kambwala made ten senior appearances for United in 2023\/24, largely the result of a defensive injury crisis that saw Raphael Varane, Lisandro Martinez, Harry Maguire, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Willy Kambwala completes permanent Man Utd exit \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/15\/willy-kambwala-completes-permanent-man-utd-exit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Willy Kambwala completes permanent Man Utd exit \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Manchester United defender Willy Kambwala has completed a permanent transfer to Villarreal following last season\u2019s first-team breakthrough. 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