{"id":17363,"date":"2025-07-21T23:07:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/brighton-transfer-news-pervis-estupinan-nearing-ac-milan-move\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:07:36","slug":"brighton-transfer-news-pervis-estupinan-nearing-ac-milan-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/brighton-transfer-news-pervis-estupinan-nearing-ac-milan-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton transfer news: Pervis Estupinan nearing AC Milan move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Brighton defender Pervis Estupinan is close to completing a move to Italian giants AC Milan.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Serie A side have been pushing to sign the Ecuador full-back for most of the summer and have already had one bid turned down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, an agreement is close to being concluded that would allow Estupinan to move to the former European champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brighton were hoping to get around \u00a317m for the 27-year-old, whose current contract expires in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Estupinan came to England in 2016 when he joined Watford but never played a senior game for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, he made his name in La Liga with Villarreal and was part of the squad that beat Manchester United in the 2021 Europa League final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has made more than 100 appearances across three seasons at Brighton but he suffered a significant ankle injury in 2024 that caused him to miss Copa America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c93kz7539w5o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton defender Pervis Estupinan is close to completing a move to Italian giants AC Milan. The Serie A side have been pushing to sign the Ecuador full-back for most of the summer and have already had one bid turned down. However, an agreement is close to being concluded that would allow Estupinan to move to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17365,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17363\/revisions\/17365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}