{"id":18554,"date":"2025-07-24T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18554\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:58:11","slug":"pervis-estupinan-brighton-defender-joins-ac-milan-for-17m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18554\/","title":{"rendered":"Pervis Estupinan: Brighton defender joins AC Milan for \u00a317m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pervis Estupinan has joined Italian side AC Milan from Brighton &amp; Hove Albion in a deal worth \u00a317m including add-ons on a deal until 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ecuadorian international defender has been a regular for Brighton since joining the club from Villarreal in 2022, scoring five goals in 104 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Estupinan was part of the squad that qualified for European football for the first time in their history in 2023 before they were knocked out of the Europa League by Roma in the last-16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last season, the left-back made 34 appearances as the Seagulls finished eighth in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have enjoyed working with Pervis and he has made a significant contribution to the club during his time here,&#8221; said Brighton head coach Fabian Hurzeler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is at the stage of his career when he wants a fresh challenge and this opportunity to play in Serie A gives him that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pervis Estupinan has joined Italian side AC Milan from Brighton &amp; Hove Albion in a deal worth \u00a317m&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-18554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}