USMNT-eligible teenager Koleosho signs with Burnley
American-born forward Luca Koleosho has completed a move to Burnley from Espanyol.
The 18-year-old made four La Liga appearances off the bench last season as Espanyol was relegated. He now moves to the
Premier League after Burnley won the Championship last term.
According to the BBC, Burnley paid £2.6 million plus £860,000 in add-ons for Koleosho.
“It feels amazing to be here. As soon as I got the call from the coach (Vincent Kompany), I knew I wanted to come
here,” Koleosho told the club’s official website.
“We spoke about the way they would help me improve and get better as a player and I was just excited by it, I can’t wait to
get started now.”
Koleosho’s international future has been the subject of plenty of speculation since he became the youngest American-born
player to feature in the Spanish top flight at the end of the 2021-22 season.
The teenager was born in Connecticut to a Nigerian father and an Italian-Canadian mother. He has played for the U.S. and Italy at youth level, and has been called into Canada’s senior side, though he has yet to make his debut.
Most recently, Koleosho was part of the Italy squad that won the UEFA European Under-19 Championship this summer.
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Delays confirmed in Yorkshire Street as Burnley’s Town 2 Turf regeneration scheme set to last until end of August
The work is part of the £6m. Town 2 Turf regeneration plan, designed to improve links between Burnley town centre
and Turf Moor.
blasting the cost of the scheme. Work was due to be completed in time for the start of the new Premier League season.
Burnley host treble winners Manchester City on Friday, August 11th in the Clarets’ hotly anticipated first game back in the
Premier League since relegation.
However, critics of the scheme, will be unhappy that a sign has appeared this week stating that work will continue until the
end of August.
The scheme will see the roundabout at the junction of Yorkshire Street and Church Street being replaced by a traffic light
junction with pedestrian crossings, the subway under Centenary Way being closed and the area landscaped, changes to the road system around the bus station, new pedestrian crossings, and improved paving, seating, and lighting.
Weavers’ Triangle through to Turf Moor.
It is being funded through Levelling Up grant money and other funding and undertaken in partnership between Burnley
Council, Lancashire County Council and Burnley Football Club.
Recently, the main road outside Turf Moor, Harry Potts Way, was shut in one direction as part of the works.
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