{"id":255707,"date":"2026-08-01T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/bournemouth-sign-antonio-silva-from-benfica-for-reported-thescore\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:03:08","slug":"bournemouth-sign-antonio-silva-from-benfica-for-reported-thescore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/bournemouth-sign-antonio-silva-from-benfica-for-reported-thescore\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth sign Antonio Silva from Benfica for reported | theScore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"Article content\" id=\"article-content\">\n<p>Bournemouth signed Portugal defender Antonio Silva from Benfica in a deal worth a reported \u00a325 million ($33 million) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Silva is the second new arrival at Bournemouth this week after their swoop for Elche forward Alvaro Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>He will fill the gap left by Marcos Senesi after the defender&#8217;s move to Tottenham on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-segment--embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our 2026\/27 save just got interesting \ud83d\udc40\ud83c\udf52 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tt2AWUbnX6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tt2AWUbnX6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AFC Bournemouth \ud83c\udf52 (@afcbournemouth) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/afcbournemouth\/status\/2083538259687186647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">August 1, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Silva made 235 senior appearances for Benfica and won six major honours during his time in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old has won 20 caps for Portugal, featuring at the 2022 World Cup and Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He was left out of Portugal&#8217;s squad for the recent World Cup in North America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy to be here. It&#8217;s a pleasure to play for Bournemouth and in the Premier League,&#8221; Silva said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to start the season with my teammates. The mentality is always to win. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will try my best, and I will play for the fans. We have everything here that helps us perform on the pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/epl\/news\/3573469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bournemouth signed Portugal defender Antonio Silva from Benfica in a deal worth a reported \u00a325 million ($33 million) on Saturday. Silva is the second new arrival at Bournemouth this week after their swoop for Elche forward Alvaro Rodriguez. He will fill the gap left by Marcos Senesi after the defender&#8217;s move to Tottenham on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}