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From days to weeks, from weeks to months, the most popular teams in Europe are making waves, tilling the grounds and making preparation for a new season. Here are the Top 5 transfers in the top 5 leagues of Europe

Popular clubs in Europe been on it, signing players, really good players that can help in building a stronger and formidable team for the challenges that awaits next season.

Below are the top five transfers Across Europe that may interest you.

Jude Bellingham to Madrid

Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid. The club competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football.

Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally worn a white home kit since its inception. The honorific title real is Spanish for “royal” and was bestowed to the club by King Alfonso XIII in 1920 together with the royal crown in the emblem.

Real Madrid have played their home matches in the 81,044-capacity Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in downtown Madrid since 1947.

Unlike most European sporting entities, Real Madrid’s members have owned and operated the club throughout its history. The official Madrid anthem is the “Hala Madrid y nada más”, written by RedOne and Manuel Jabois.

The club is one of the most widely supported in the world, and is the most followed football club on social media and was estimated to be worth $5.1 billion in 2022, making it the world’s most valuable football club. In 2023, it was the second highest-earning football club in the world, with an annual revenue of €713.8 million.

Being one of the three founding members of La Liga that have never been relegated from the top division since its inception in 1929 (along with Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona), Real Madrid holds many long-standing rivalries, most notably El Clásico with Barcelona and El Derbi Madrileño with Atlético Madrid.

The club established itself as a major force in both Spanish and European football during the 1950s and 60s, winning five consecutive and six overall European Cups and reaching a further two finals.

This success was replicated on the domestic front, with Madrid winning twelve league titles in the span of 16 years. This team, which included Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ferenc Puskás, Francisco Gento, and Raymond Kopa, is considered by some in the sport to be the greatest of all time.

] Real Madrid is known for its Galácticos policy, which involves signing the world’s best players, such as Ronaldo, Zidane, and David Beckham, to create a superstar team.

The term ‘Galácticos policy’ generally refers to the two eras of Florentino Pérez’s presidency of the club (2000-2006 and 2009-2018), however, players brought in just before his tenure are sometimes considered to be part of the Galácticos legacy.

A notable example is Steve McManaman, who like many other players also suffered under the policy. On 26 June 2009, Madrid signed Cristiano Ronaldo for a record breaking £80 million (€94 million); he became both the club and history’s all-time top goalscorer.

Madrid have recently relaxed the Galácticos policy, instead focusing on signing young talents such as Vinícius Júnior and Jude Bellingham.

In domestic football, the club has won 69 trophies; a record 35 La Liga titles, 20 Copa del Rey, 12 Supercopa de España, a Copa Eva Duarte, and a Copa de la Liga.

In European football, Real Madrid have won a record 21 trophies; a record 14 European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles, two UEFA Cups, and a record of five UEFA Super Cups.

In worldwide competitions, they have achieved a record eight club world championships. Madrid was ranked second in the International Federation of Football History & Statistics Club World Ranking for 2000, 2002, 2014, 2017. In UEFA, Madrid ranks 1st in the all-time club ranking.

Real Madrid was recognised as the best football club of the 20th century by FIFA and as the best European club during the same timeframe by the IFFHS, whilst also receiving the FIFA Centennial Order of Merit in 2004.

Real Madrid has the highest participations in the European Cup/Champions League (42),[32] tournament in which they hold the overall record for the most wins, most draws and most goals scored.

Real Madrid is the only club to have won three consecutive titles (three-peat) in the European Cup/Champions League twice, first in 1955–56, 1956–57, and 1957–58, and second in 2015–16, 2016–17, and 2017–18.

In May 2022, they won a record-extending fourteenth Champions League title (the fifth in nine seasons), recognized by the Guinness World Records.

Real Madrid is the first club across all of Europe’s top five leagues to win 100 trophies in all competitions. As of March 2023, Real Madrid are ranked fifth in the UEFA club rankings.

Jude Victor William Bellingham is an English professional footballer who will play as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and plays for the England national team.

Bellingham joined Birmingham City as an under-8, became the club’s youngest ever first-team player when he made his senior debut in August 2019, at the age of 16 years, 38 days, and played regularly during the 2019–20 season.

He joined Borussia Dortmund in July 2020, and in his first competitive match became their youngest ever goalscorer. Over three seasons with the club he made 132 appearances, was a member of their 2020–21 DFB-Pokal-winning team, and helped them finish as runners-up in the 2022–23 Bundesliga. He signed for Real Madrid in June 2023.

He represented England at under-15, under-16, under-17 and under-21 levels. He made his first appearance for the senior team in November 2020, and represented the country at UEFA Euro 2020 and the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

On 14 June 2023, Real Madrid announced the signing of Bellingham on a six-year contract. The agreement included a base transfer fee of €103 million, payable to Borussia Dortmund. This fee could potentially increase to approximately €133.9 million due to add-ons, which can amount to 30% of the fixed transfer amount.

Upon his official unveiling, Bellingham was given the number 5, for which he thanked Jesús Vallejo, calling him “a brilliant, brilliant guy”. Bellingham admitted that his choice of the number was partially in “homage” to Zinedine Zidane and that being awarded it was an “honour”.

Speaking of why he joined Real Madrid, Bellingham mentioned that the “respect that England has for Real Madrid is so high” and that he wanted to be one of the players that would add to its “great history”.

He also admitted that his “heart was close to stopping” when he was told that the Spanish club wished to sign him. The transfer was lauded as one that made “perfect sense” by BBC Sport with former Real Madrid legend Steve McManaman commenting that it was “another really good signing” for Madrid. Birmingham City received around £6 million from the transfer due to their sell-on clause.

Real Madrid will switch from the usual 4-3-3 to 4-3-1-2 with Bellingham playing in an advanced position behind the front two. A new-look Real Madrid heads into the new season – one that is partly recognizable to last season’s, but with an entirely new system.

James Maddison to Tottenham

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is a football club based in Tottenham, north London, England. Formed in 1882 as “Hotspur Football Club” by a group of schoolboys, it was renamed to “Tottenham Hotspur Football Club” in 1884, and is commonly referred to as “Tottenham” or “Spurs”.

Initially amateur, the club turned professional in 1895. Spurs won the FA Cup in 1901, becoming the first, and so far only non-League club to do so since the formation of the Football League.

The club has won the FA Cup a further seven times, the Football League twice, the League Cup four times, the UEFA Cup twice and the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup in 1963, the first UEFA competition won by an English team. In 1960–61, Tottenham became the first team to complete The Double in the 20th century.

Tottenham played in the Southern League from 1896 until 1908, when they were elected to the Football League Second Division.

They won promotion to the First Division the following year, and stayed there until the late 1920s. The club played mostly in the Second Division until the 1950s, when it enjoyed a revival, reaching a peak in the 1960s.

Fortunes dipped after the early 1970s, but resurged in the 1980s. Tottenham was a founding member of the Premier League in 1992; they finished in mid-table most seasons, but now rank as one of the top six clubs.

Of the club’s thirty-two managers, John Cameron was the first to win a major trophy, the 1901 FA Cup. Peter McWilliam added a second FA Cup win for the club in 1921. Arthur Rowe developed the “push and run” style of play in the 1950s and led the club to its first league title.

Bill Nicholson oversaw the Double winning side as well as the most successful period of the club’s history, in the 1960s and early 1970s. Later managers include Keith Burkinshaw, the second most successful in terms of major trophies won, with two FA Cups and a UEFA Cup, and Terry Venables, under whom the club won the FA Cup in 1991.

Spurs played their early games on public land at Tottenham Marshes, but by 1888 they were playing on rented ground at Northumberland Park. In 1899, the club moved to White Hart Lane, where a stadium was gradually developed. Spurs remained there until 2017. Its replacement, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, was completed in 2019 on the same site; during its construction, home matches were played at Wembley Stadium.

James Daniel Maddison is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team.

Maddison began his career with Coventry City before joining Norwich City in 2016. He spent the 2016–17 season on loan at Scottish Premiership club Aberdeen.

In his first season back at Norwich, Maddison was named in the Championship PFA Team of the Year and EFL Team of the Season. He joined Leicester City in 2018.

Maddison was capped by England at under-21 level from 2017 to 2019, and made his debut for the senior team in 2019. He was part of the 2022 FIFA World Cup squad.

Maddison signed for Premier League club Leicester City on 20 June 2018, on a five-year contract for an undisclosed fee thought to be around £20 million. He scored his first goal in the Premier League on 18 August in a 2–0 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

He later followed up his impressive start for the club with back-to-back Premier League goals, from set-pieces, against AFC Bournemouth and Huddersfield Town, respectively.] On 29 July 2020, he agreed a new four-year contract with Leicester.

On 27 September 2020, Maddison scored a curler outside the box in a 5–2 win against Manchester City in the league which was later voted as Premier League Goal of the Month.

On 11 April 2021, Maddison was one of three players dropped from Leicester’s squad for the game against West Ham United after breaching COVID-19 protocols.

On 28 June 2023, Maddison joined Tottenham Hotspur for undisclosed fee, signing a five-year contract. The transfer fee was reported to be £40m.

Spurs have announced the signing of the attacking midfielder after striking a £40 million ($50.5m) deal following Leicester’s fall into the Championship.

Maddison was also targeted by Newcastle, but Spurs have beaten their Premier League rivals to the punch, and he has signed a contract until 2028.

David Pleat, the former Spurs manager who has remained close to Daniel Levy, recommended Maddison to the chairman way back when he was a teenager at Coventry and then again when the playmaker was preparing to leave Norwich for Leicester in the summer of 2018.

Maddison remained on Spurs’s radar and Levy considered a move for the England international last summer, before finally completing a deal worth £40m yesterday.

Maddison’s signing is a welcome tonic for everyone associated with Spurs, energising supporters (and providing a much-needed distraction from Harry Kane’s uncertain future), adding spark to new head coach Ange Postecoglou’s squad and allowing under-pressure Levy to get one over Saudi-backed Newcastle, who were also pursuing the 26-year-old.

For at least three seasons, Tottenham have been overly-reliant on Kane for creativity while lacking flair outside of the front three, and under both Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte it became clear that if the England captain and Heung-min Son could be stopped, so too could Spurs.

Maddison, though, promises to provide a consistent stream of goals and assists from deeper areas (and dead-ball situations), which should help Postecoglou’s new-look side to break down mean defences and ease the burden on Kane, Son and Dejan Kulusevski for creativity.

Over the past three seasons, only six players in the Premier League — including Kane and Son — can better Maddison’s 52 combined goals and assists, and over the previous two campaigns, Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne is the only midfielder to have directly contributed to more top-flight goals.

Christopher Nkunku to Chelsea

Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.

The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955.

The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.

Chelsea are one of five clubs to have won all three pre-1999 main European club competitions, and the only club to have won all three major European competitions twice.

They are also the only London club to have won the Champions League and the Club World Cup. Domestically, the club has won six league titles, eight FA Cups, five League Cups, and four FA Community Shields.

Internationally, they have won the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League, the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup and the UEFA Super Cup twice each, and the FIFA Club World Cup once since their inception. In terms of overall trophies won, Chelsea are the fourth-most successful club in English football.

The club has rivalries with neighbouring teams Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, and a historic rivalry with Leeds United. In terms of club value, Chelsea is the seventh most valuable football club in the world (as of 2021), worth £2.39 billion ($3.2 billion), and is the eighth highest-earning football club in the world, with earnings of over €493.1 million (as of May 2022).

Christopher Alan Nkunku is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the France national team. He will join Premier League club Chelsea on 1 July 2023.

Nkunku is a graduate of the Paris Saint-Germain Academy and made his professional debut for the club in December 2015. He made 78 appearances for them and won three Ligue 1 titles, the Coupe de France twice and the Coupe de la Ligue twice.

Nkunku joined German side RB Leipzig in July 2019, with whom he won the Bundesliga Player of the Season award and the DFB-Pokal in the 2021–22 season.

Nkunku represented France at multiple youth international levels, before making his debut for the senior national team in March 2022.

On 18 July 2019, RB Leipzig announced Nkunku’s signing on a five-year deal for an approximate €13 million transfer fee plus bonuses. He made his debut for the club on 11 August in a DFB-Pokal match against VfL Osnabrück, which ended in a 3–2 victory.

His Bundesliga debut followed a week later, scoring his first competitive goal on the first matchday of the 2019–20 season in a 4–0 win over regional rivals Union Berlin.

On 22 February 2020, Nkunku provided four assists in a 5–0 victory over Schalke 04. In doing so, he became just the second player in recent Bundesliga history to register four assists in a single match, after Szabolcs Huszti in 2012.

On 15 September 2021, Nkunku scored a hat-trick for Leipzig in their 6–3 defeat to Manchester City in a 2021–22 UEFA Champions League group stage match.

He was the first player in the club’s history to score a hat-trick in the Champions League. On 25 September 2021, Nkunku scored a brace in a 6–0 win against Hertha BSC.

week later, he scored another brace in a win against VfL Bochum, making this the first time he scored back-to-back braces in his career. In May 2022, he won the 2021–22 Bundesliga Player of the Season award after scoring 20 times and assisting 13 goals in 34 league games.In the 2022–23 season, he scored 16 goals in the league to finish as joint top scorer along with Niclas Füllkrug.

On 20 June 2023, Nkunku signed for Premier League club Chelsea on a six-year deal starting on 1 July 2023. The fee was reported to be in the region of £52m.

Nkunku signed a pre-contract agreement with Chelsea in December and the deal has now been made official.

“I am incredibly happy to be joining Chelsea,” he said. “A big effort was made to bring me to the club and I am looking forward to meeting my new coach and teammates and showing the Chelsea supporters what I can do on the pitch.

“Having played in Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, I now want to play in the Premier League, one of the strongest leagues in the world. I am very excited for this challenge and will be proud to wear the Chelsea shirt.”

Mateo kovaciç to Manchester city

Manchester City Football Club are an English professional football club based in Manchester that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

Founded in 1880 as St. Mark’s (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The club’s home ground is the Etihad Stadium in east Manchester, to which they moved in 2003, having played at Maine Road since 1923. Manchester City adopted their sky blue home shirts in 1894, in the first season with the current name.

The club joined the Football League in 1892, and won their first major honour, the FA Cup, in 1904. Manchester City had its first major period of success in the late 1960s and early 1970s, winning the league title, FA Cup, League Cup, and European Cup Winners Cup under the management of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison.

After losing the 1981 FA Cup final, Manchester City went through a period of decline, culminating in relegation to the third tier of English football for the only time in their history in 1998. They since regained promotion to the top tier in 2001–02 and have remained a fixture in the Premier League since 2002–03.

Manchester City received considerable financial investment both in playing staff and facilities in east Manchester following its takeover by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan through the Abu Dhabi United Group in August 2008.

This started a new era of unprecedented success, with the club winning the FA Cup in 2011 and the Premier League in 2012.

Under the management of Pep Guardiola, the club became the first in Premier League history to attain 100 points in a single season, before completing an unprecedented sweep of all domestic titles in England in 2019 and becoming the first English men’s team to win the domestic treble.

In 2023, the club won their first UEFA Champions League, while also winning the Premier League and FA Cup in the same season, completing a continental treble.

Manchester City topped the Deloitte Football Money League at the end of the 2021–22 season, making it the football club with the highest revenue in the world, approximated at €731 million.

In 2022, Forbes estimated the club was the sixth-most valuable in the world, worth $4.250 billion. Manchester City are owned by City Football Group Limited, which is majority owned by the Abu Dhabi United Group, valued at £3.73 ($4.8) billion in November 2019.

Mateo Kovačić is a professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the Croatia national team.

Kovačić began his professional career with Dinamo Zagreb at the age of 16, with whom he won two consecutive Prva HNL titles, before joining Inter Milan in 2013.

After the 2014–15 season, he moved to Real Madrid, where he won the 2015–16, 2016–17 and 2017–18 UEFA Champions Leagues. He joined Chelsea in 2018 on loan, signing permanently at the end of the 2018–19 season.

With Chelsea, Kovačić won the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League and the 2020–21 Champions League, as well as the Chelsea Player of the Year for the 2019–20 season.

Born in Austria, Kovačić played for Croatia at multiple youth levels before making his debut for the senior national team in 2013. He has represented the nation at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 2016 and 2020 UEFA European Championships, reaching the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2023 UEFA Nations League finals.

On 1 July 2019, Kovačić completed a permanent transfer to Chelsea, signing a five-year contract. After an underwhelming season under Maurizio Sarri, Kovačić turned into one of the most important Chelsea players under new manager Frank Lampard.

Kovačić scored his first goal for Chelsea on 27 November, in a 2–2 away draw against Valencia in the 2019–20 Champions League. On 7 December, he scored his first Premier League goal in a 3–1 away loss to Everton.

In the 2020 FA Cup final on 1 August 2020, he was sent off for a challenge on Granit Xhaka, as Chelsea lost 2–1 to Arsenal. On 25 August, he was named the Chelsea Player of the Year.

On 23 September 2020, Kovačić marked his 100th appearance for the club against Barnsley in the third round of the 2020–21 EFL Cup as Chelsea won 6–0 at home.

After a difficult start of the season, Kovačić regained form from the previous season following the appointment of new manager Thomas Tuchel.

Ahead of the second leg of the 2020–21 Champions League quarter-finals against Porto, Kovačić sustained a tendon injury and was forced to miss the semi-final tie against his former club Real Madrid, which Chelsea won 3–1 on aggregate.

Despite previously winning three Champions Leagues, on 29 May 2021, Kovačić played in a Champions League final for the first time in his career, coming on for Mason Mount in the 80th minute, as Chelsea beat Manchester City 1–0.

On 11 September 2021, Kovačić provided Romelu Lukaku with an assist and scored in a 3–0 victory over Aston Villa. In late October, Kovačić suffered an injury in training and then tested positive for COVID-19 in early December.

He returned to the team on 19 December, in a 0–0 draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers. On 2 January 2022, he initiated a comeback in a 2–2 home draw with Liverpool, in which he scored Chelsea’s first goal while they were two goals down.

He later won the Premier League Goal of the Month and the Chelsea Goal of the Year for this goal. Six days later, on 8 January, Kovačić captained Chelsea for the first time in a 5–1 victory over Chesterfield in the FA Cup.

On 7 March 2023, Kovačić captained Chelsea in the 2022–23 Champions League round of 16, leading them to a 2–0 victory over Borussia Dortmund and into the quarter-finals.

Four days later, on 11 March, Kovačić captained Chelsea again and scored the third goal in a 3–1 victory over Leicester City in the 2022–23 Premier League.

On 27 June 2023, fellow Premier League club Manchester City announced the signing of Kovačić on a four-year deal. He became the third Croatian to sign for the club, after Vedran Ćorluka and Ante Palaversa.

City boss Pep Guardiola has been keen to reinforce his midfield options after the club missed out on Jude Bellingham, who joined Real Madrid this month, and with captain Ilkay Gundogan completing a free transfer to Barcelona on Monday.

“Mateo is an excellent footballer,” City director of football Txiki Begiristain said. “He can play as a 6 or an 8, has plenty of experience at top level clubs and he understands the Premier League.

“It was a very simple decision to bring him to City because he has the tactical and technical qualities we are looking for in a midfielder.

“He is someone we have monitored for a very long time and always we were impressed whenever we watched him.”

Sources told ESPN earlier this month that Chelsea had hoped to agree to a deal closer to their initial £35m ($44m) asking price for Kovacic, but the west London club reduced their demands in order to complete the deal before June 30. The timing of the transfer was important to Chelsea as it allowed them to ratify the deal within the first full tax year, which helps the club to comply with UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules.

Kovacic is the latest high-profile player to leave Chelsea as the club look to reshape their large squad for new head coach Mauricio Pochettino — N’Golo Kante has already left to join Saudi Pro League side Al Ittihad.

Sources have also told ESPN that Arsenal have agreed a £65m ($83m) deal with Chelsea to sign forward Kai Havertz while Christian Pulisic, Edouard Mendy and Mason Mount are also likely to depart.

Man Utd’s possible signing for next season

Youri Tielemans to Aston villa

Aston Villa Football Club, commonly referred to as Villa, is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system.

Founded in 1874, they have played at their home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in England, having won the Football League First Division seven times, the FA Cup seven times, the League Cup five times, and the European Cup and European (UEFA) Super Cup once.

Aston Villa has been a leading English club since the 1880s, renowned for their short, quick combination passing under Scotsman George Ramsay, who was appointed as the world’s first professional football manager in 1886.

The club was influential in the sport’s move to professionalism in 1885 and it was a Villa director, William McGregor who founded the world’s first Football League in 1888.

George Ramsay’s trophy haul of six League Championships and six FA Cups established Aston Villa as the most successful club in England, a position it held from the 1890s until the 1970s.

Villa scored 128 goals in season 1930–31, which remains the all-time top-flight record, however the club began its first decline in the mid-1930s; the 1940s and 50s was generally a period of mediocrity followed by a steep decline in the 1960s which culminated in a takeover of the club by Doug Ellis in 1968 and Villa’s first and only relegation to the third tier of English football in 1969–70.

Villa returned to the elite from the mid-1970s under manager Ron Saunders, who led the club to a seventh top-flight league title in 1980–81. They became only the fourth English club to win the European Cup, in 1981–82, followed by the European Super Cup in 1982.

Aston Villa was a founding member of the Premier League in 1992, one of just three clubs to have been founding members of both the Football League and the Premier League. The club regularly qualified for European football in the 1990s, but following a period in which the club struggled to compete with the high levels of spending of the leading clubs, Doug Ellis sold his stake in the club to American billionaire Randy Lerner, whose ownership of the club ended with Villa’s first and only relegation from the Premier League in season 2015–16. The club returned to the Premier League in 2019.

During its history Villa has spent 109 seasons in the top-flight, the second highest of any club, and provided 76 England internationals, also the second highest of any club. Aston Villa is currently ranked 5th in the all-time English top flight table, since its creation in 1888 and is the seventh most successful club in English football by competitive honours.

Villa have a fierce local rivalry with Birmingham City and the Second City derby between the teams has been played since 1879. There is also a local rivalry with West Bromwich Albion, with matches between the sides known as the West Midlands derby.

The club’s traditional kit colours are claret shirts with sky blue sleeves, white shorts and sky blue socks. Their traditional club badge is of a rampant lion.

The club is currently owned by the NSWE group, a company owned by the Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris and the American billionaire Wes Edens.

Youri Marion A. Tielemans is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL Championship club Leicester City and the Belgium national team. He will join Premier League club Aston Villa on 1 July 2023.

He began his career at Anderlecht, where he made 185 official appearances and scored 35 goals across four seasons. He won the league title twice and in 2017 was chosen as the Belgian Professional Footballer of the Year.

He is the youngest Belgian to play in the UEFA Champions League, making his debut in the competition at the age of 16 years and 148 days. After two years at Monaco in Ligue 1, he joined Leicester in 2019, initially on loan and then for an estimated fee of £32 million. He scored the only goal of the 2021 FA Cup Final.

Tielemans represented Belgium at several youth levels and before gaining his first cap for the national team in November 2016, aged 19. He was part of the squad that came third at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, also featuring at UEFA Euro 2020 and the 2022 World Cup.

On 8 July 2019, Tielemans completed a permanent move to Leicester City, on a four-year deal for an estimated fee of £32 million. He scored in a 3–1 home win over Bournemouth on 31 August, but courted controversy with a high challenge on Callum Wilson that escaped punishment even after consultation with the video assistant referee; referees’ chief Mike Riley ruled that this was an incorrect decision and Tielemans should have been sent off.

On 15 May 2021, Tielemans scored the only goal of the 2021 FA Cup Final with a long-range strike against Chelsea in the 63rd minute, sealing Leicester’s first ever FA Cup title. He was named the man of the match.

On 10 June 2023, Premier League club Aston Villa announced that they had reached an agreement to sign Tielemans on a free transfer, upon the expiry of his Leicester City contract on 1st July.

The Belgium international, 26, will join the club on 1 July, after his Leicester contract expires.

Following Leicester’s relegation from the Premier League, Arsenal, Manchester United and Roma were also rumoured to be interested in Tielemans. He was expected to be Villa’s first signing of the summer – joined Leicester in 2019 and helped the Foxes win the FA cup final in 2021.

Man Utd’s possible signing for next season