\n It’s believed that a verbal agreement is in place to secure the move, with the Blues now looking to agree personal terms and finalise the agreement to bring the 26-year-old to Portman Road.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fellow Premier League outfit Hull City felt that they were close to signing Florentino on loan this summer, but their move collapsed when Town came in with a permanent offer.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 12-cap Portugal Under-21 international, who was born in Angola, came through the ranks at Benfica, spending time on loan at AS Monaco and Getafe before his switch to Turf Moor last summer.\n<\/p>\n
\n We’re LIVE! Subscribe to KOA for \u00a32 for two months, or \u00a329 for the whole year!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \n While his time at Burnley was also a loan at first, it became permanent for a reported fee of \u20ac24m (around \u00a320.6m) due to an obligation at the end of last season.\n<\/p>\n \n Should Florentino join Town, he will become the club’s seventh new summer signing. It would take their total spend, including add-ons, to just under \u00a3100m.\n<\/p>\n \n Ipswich boss Gary O’Neil is keen to bolster his midfield options, with Azor Matusiwa (muscle) and Jack Taylor (knee) in a race to be fit to face Sunderland after undergoing post-season surgery.\n<\/p>\n \n Fulham’s Sasa Lukic remains a target<\/a>, while Bayer Leverkusen’s Exequiel Palacios has also been linked<\/a>. The Blues are also confident that they can agree a deal to re-sign Julio Enciso, who is keen on making the move from Ligue 1 side Strasbourg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s believed that a verbal agreement is in place to secure the move, with the Blues now looking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-725785","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\/725785","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=725785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}