{"id":686467,"date":"2026-07-11T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686467\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:24:08","slug":"loum-tchaouna-coventry-city-sign-french-winger-from-burnley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686467\/","title":{"rendered":"Loum Tchaouna: Coventry City sign French winger from Burnley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Premier League Coventry City have signed winger Loum Tchaouna from relegated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/burnley\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley<\/a> for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old Frenchman has signed a five-year contract, Coventry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reports say the deal is worth about \u00a320m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tchaouna joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/burnley\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley<\/a> from Lazio last summer and scored three goals in 32 appearances as the Clarets were unable to preserve their top-flight status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so excited to start this new season in the Premier League, I&#8217;m feeling good and ready for the challenge,&#8221; the former France youth international said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/burnley\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley<\/a> last season in the Premier League, which was incredible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to bring my energy, determination and leadership to the team. I&#8217;ve played in Ligue 1, Serie A and now I&#8217;m playing in the Premier League, the best league in the world, so I have a lot of experience for my young age. I can&#8217;t wait for the new season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After coming through the youth ranks at Rennes, he moved to Salernitana in Italy before earning a switch to Lazio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Championship title winners Coventry face champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> in their opening league game on 21 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier League Coventry City have signed winger Loum Tchaouna from relegated Burnley for an undisclosed fee. The 22-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-686467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}