{"id":14511,"date":"2026-08-05T00:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/?p=14511"},"modified":"2026-08-05T00:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:38:27","slug":"ipswich-town-sign-burnley-midfielder-florentino-luis-for-16-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/05\/ipswich-town-sign-burnley-midfielder-florentino-luis-for-16-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town Sign Burnley Midfielder Florentino Luis for \u00a316 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ipswich Town have completed the \u00a316 million signing of midfielder Florentino Luis from Burnley on a five-year contract, bolstering their squad ahead of their <a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/04\/arsenal-and-chelsea-target-lille-forward-matias-fernandez-pardo-in-30-million-transfer-battle\/\" class=\"auto-internal-link\" title=\"Arsenal and Chelsea Target Lille Forward Matias Fernandez-Pardo in \u00a330 Million Transfer Battle\">Premier League<\/a> return.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old midfielder made 33 appearances for Burnley in an unsuccessful fight against Premier League relegation under former manager Scott Parker. Florentino had initially joined Burnley on loan from Benfica before completing a permanent transfer in June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels brilliant to be a part of this club,&#8221; Florentino said following the move. &#8220;I think I will be very happy here. I like how the club sees the future and there are a lot of good players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting Ipswich&#8217;s direction as a primary factor in his choice, he added: &#8220;How the club is thinking to the long-term is one of the main reasons I came here. I can bring experience and balance to the team, between defence and attack, and I like to bring the connection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3EEE0F0-1-1-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"Footballer Florentino Luis of Premier League team Ipswich Town Football Club shaping to hit a ball with both arms outretched while playing for Burnley at their Turf Moor stadium in their home colours of predominantly claret and looking at a white ball in the air\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>The arrival of Florentino comes during a summer of change for Ipswich Town, who secured automatic promotion to the top flight after finishing second in the Championship behind Coventry last season.<\/p>\n<p>Following promotion, manager Kieran McKenna stepped down from his position. Former Bournemouth boss Gary O\u2019Neil was subsequently appointed to take charge of the team ahead of the new campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Ipswich officially start their Premier League schedule on August 22 with a home match against Sunderland.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-news-box\">\n<h3 class=\"related-news-title\">Read also:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"related_news_list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/04\/arsenal-and-chelsea-target-lille-forward-matias-fernandez-pardo-in-30-million-transfer-battle\/\">Arsenal and Chelsea Target Lille Forward Matias Fernandez-Pardo in \u00a330 Million Transfer Battle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/04\/bernardo-silva-completes-real-madrid-move-citing-unmatched-trophy-record-and-mourinho-factor\/\">Bernardo Silva Completes Real Madrid Move, Citing Unmatched Trophy Record and Mourinho Factor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/04\/chelsea-target-300m-clearance-sale-to-meet-xabi-alonsos-squad-mandate-and-financial-rules\/\">Chelsea Target \u00a3300m Clearance Sale to Meet Xabi Alonso\u2019s Squad Mandate and Financial Rules<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ipswich Town have completed the \u00a316 million signing of midfielder Florentino Luis from Burnley on a five-year contract, bolstering their squad ahead of their Premier League return. The 26-year-old midfielder made 33 appearances for Burnley in an unsuccessful fight against Premier League relegation under former manager Scott Parker. Florentino had initially joined Burnley on loan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8471,560,17150,17146,17147,17145,17148,243,17149,4229],"class_list":["post-14511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-benfica","tag-burnley","tag-coventry","tag-florentino-luis","tag-gary-oneil","tag-ipswich-town","tag-kieran-mckenna","tag-premier-league","tag-scott-parker","tag-sunderland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14515,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions\/14515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}