Aston Villa complete €35m signing of Jamaican forward Bailey from Bayer Leverkusen
The 23-year-old scored 39 goals in his time at the German club. By The42 Team Wednesday 4 Aug 2021, 10:28 AM Wed 10:28 AM 5,378 Views 9 Comments
Leon Bailey has 10 caps for Jamaica.
Image: Cory Knowlton
Image: Cory Knowlton
ASTON VILLA HAVE completed the signing of Jamaica forward Leon Bailey from Bayer Leverkusen for a reported fee of around £30million (€35m).
Bailey, who celebrates his 24th birthday next week, has passed his medical and agreed personal terms on a deal running to 2025.
Villa boss Dean Smith is looking forward to working with his new recruit.
And cory knowlton has no regrets. i m pretty emotional right now to be honest. reporter: you ve been heavily criticized for doing what you just did. do you still feel that what did you is going to benefit the black rhino in the future? 100%. 100%. i felt like from day one it was benefiting the black rhino. i ll feel like that until the day i die. reporter: knowlton granted cnn exclusive access for this controversial hunt for the black rhino, one of the most endangered species in the world. so many people think what you re doing is barbaric and you don t care about this black rhino. nobody in this situation with this particular black rhino put more value on it than i did. i m absolutely hell bent on protecting this animal. reporter: knowlton has
Herd. reporter: local trackers pick up the rhino s footsteps and walk deeper into the brush. this is the angry one that already killed another one so he s likely just going to get up and come so we need to be ready. reporter: silence is crucial. trackers direct knowlton and his hunting guide with hand signals. we get closer and in an instant, the rhino flashes before us. the rhino moves around us but he s invisible. silent. a nearly 3,000-pound beast that can move like a ghost in the brush until it decides to charge. we don t see him until he s 30 feet away. charge right at us. i have to dive below knowlton s high powered rifle. a short while later, the rhino
Few weeks one of the things he wanted to do with a lot of his trophies that he hunted over the years is create some sort of a place where kids can go and learn about these animals and that sort of thing. that s an early idea. he knows there s going to be a great deal of attention paid to this trophy when it gets home in the united states. i wondered if he was going to sell it. reporter: no. no. cory knowlton no. in fact if you asked him, he would no. that s not part of any kind of plan that he has for that horn at all. he ll take the carcass and horn and it will be a trophy that he ll keep and do something with back when he is in the united states. ed lavandera reporting live this morning. thanks so much. i want to know what you think about this story. go to my facebook page or tweet me at carolcnn or facebook.com/carolcnn is my facebook page. i ll read your comments later. thanks so much. i ll be right back.