Aston Villa have confirmed the signing of French midfielder Yacouba Sylla from Ligue 2 outfit Clermont Foot on a three-and-a-half year contract. Arriving on transfer deadline day, Sylla becomes the ...

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Aston Villa midfielder Yacouba Sylla is unhappy at the club and wants a loan move back to France. The Frenchman, who signed for the Villa Park club from Clermont Foot in January 2013, has made just 13 ...

Yacouba Sylla has been recruited to “add a bit of steel into the midfield”, according to Paul Lambert, after agreeing a three-year contract with Aston Villa. Sylla, who will wear the number 18 shirt, ...

Against the odds, facing the encroaching Sahara, he built a forest in Burkina Faso, becoming “a national hero” and winning acclaim abroad for his innovations. By Adam Nossiter Yacouba Sawadogo, a ...

French midfielder Yacouba Sylla has admitted he jumped at the chance to join Aston Villa in January from Clermont.

Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer known as “the man who beat the desert” in Burkina Faso for revolutionising agricultural methods and creating a 75-acre forest on barren land, died on Dec. 3 in Ouahigouya, a ...