Confirmed: Burnley sign Super Eagles-eligible winger

Through their official website, Premier League newcomers Burnley announced the signing of Luca Koleosho from Espanyol for an undisclosed fee on Tuesday.

The Clarets confirmed that their latest signing is eligible to play international football for four countries, namely United States, where he was born, Nigeria through his father, and the Italian and Canadian national teams through his mother.

With the exception of Nigeria, Koleosho has received international call-ups at youth or senior level for all the countries he’s eligible to represent.

However, the Italian Football Federation are seemingly in the driving seat for the winger’s services, given that he is provisionally cap-tied to the European powerhouse.

Koleosho was a member of Gli Azzurrini squad to the 2023 European U19 Championship, where he featured in all the matches contested by the newly crowned European champions including the showpiece against Portugal.

The 18-year-old has put pen to paper on a four-year deal with Burnley that will keep him at Turf Moor until the end of the 2026-2027 season.

Signed as one for the future, Koleosho was on the books of Espanyal for seven years, rising through the youth teams ranks to play in five matches in La Liga while making an appearance in the Copa del Rey.

The Italian-Nigerian-American-Canadian teenager is Burnley’s sixth signing of the summer transfer window.

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Premier League club Fulham are closing in on the signing of Super Eagles central defender Calvin Bassey.

According to Algemeen Dagblad , Bassey is definitely leaving Ajax Amsterdam after agreeing a multi-year contract with the Cottagers and he’s now on his way to Orlando in the United States for his medical examination.

 

Subject to hin passing the medical, he will put pen to paper on a five-year deal with Fulham.

The Londoners were in the market for a left-footed central defender, with Bassey and Ghana international Mohammed Salisu the options being considered, but the Nigerian has been favoured over the Southampton star for the position.

Bassey was left out of Ajax’s traveling squad to Germany for a training camp and did not participate in the friendly against Anderlecht, which more or less confirmed that a transfer was on the cards.

Fulham had already agreed a fee of twenty one million euros with Ajax Amsterdam for the Leicester City academy product.

The 23-year-old is set to leave the 36-time Dutch champions after playing in 39 matches for them, scoring one goal and notching five assists.

Fulham are in the United States for the Premier League Summer Series and will take on Aston Villa and Chelsea in their next two games before returning to the English capital to continue their pre-season preparations.