{"id":799713,"date":"2026-07-14T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799713\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:53:09","slug":"luka-vuskovic-brighton-sign-croatia-defender-from-tottenham-for-club-record-46m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/799713\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Vuskovic: Brighton sign Croatia defender from Tottenham for club record \u00a346m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s been a lot of external noise about Luka joining us, but he is still a young guy who will need time to adjust to the demands of playing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton<\/a> and the Premier League,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are confident that he will take this in his stride though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vuskovic will replace Netherlands centre-back Jan Paul van Hecke in Hurzeler&#8217;s squad, who has moved in the opposite direction and joined Spurs on a long-term deal for \u00a352m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in Split, Vuskovic came through the academy at local club Hajduk, becoming the youngest player to feature in Croatia&#8217;s top flight when he was just 16 &#8211; and going on to become his club&#8217;s youngest goalscorer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was named Rookie of the Season for his impressive campaign in the Bundesliga last season, and also claimed a spot in the league&#8217;s Team of the Year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vuskovic has six senior caps and one goal for Croatia and made his World Cup debut against England in the group stages last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton<\/a> start the new Premier League season against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/aston-villa\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a> at home on Sunday, 23 August at 14:00 BST. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;There&#8217;s been a lot of external noise about Luka joining us, but he is still a young guy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-799713","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\/799713","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=799713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}