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David Akintola is joining Hull City on a permanent deal (Image: Hakan Burak Altunoz\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\nThe Tigers are set to confirm their third arrival from the Turkish Super Lig in the space of a weekDavid Akintola is joining Hull City on a permanent deal (Image: Hakan Burak Altunoz\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Hull City’s move to sign Nigerian winger David Akintola has moved a step closer after the Home Office granted him a visa over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Akintola is expected to sign a two-year deal at the MKM Stadium<\/a> with the option of a third. He will become the eighth signing of a busy summer so far, despite the club working under strict transfer restrictions.<\/p>\n A three-window fee restriction was slapped on the Tigers at the beginning of July, though the club will hope that is reduced when their appeal is heard on Wednesday afternoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 29-year-old has been a free agent since leaving Turkish side Rizespor<\/a> at the end of last season, and though he’s had other offers, a move to City<\/a> appealed, joining John Lundstram and Enis Destan in arriving from Turkey in the past few days.<\/p>\n City’s latest acquisition has notched up 273 appearances throughout his career, with the majority of those coming in the Super Lig in recent seasons.<\/p>\n He’s clocked up 147 of those in Turkey, including 32 last season, with three goals and six assists for Rizespor who finished ninth, five points off the European places.<\/p>\n A versatile operator, Akintola is naturally a right winger but can operate on the left and his arrival will boost Sergej Jakirovic’s options on each flank.<\/p>\n City have already signed Joel Ndala from Manchester City on loan for the season while Liam Millar and Mohamed Belloumi are edging closer to a return. Abu Kamara remains at the club and will again be the Tigers’ frontline winger when they kick off their season at Coventry City on Saturday.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, talks with Oliver McBurnie over a possible move to the MKM Stadium remain ongoing and City hope they can strike a deal for the 29-year-old former Sheffield United striker. Going the other way, Steven Alzate’s move to MLS side Atlanta United has been completed.<\/p>\n Here at <\/strong>Hull Live<\/a> <\/strong>, we are dedicated to bringing you the best <\/strong>Hull City<\/a> <\/strong>coverage and analysis. Make sure you don’t miss out on the latest City news by joining our free WhatsApp group. <\/strong>You can get all the breaking news and best analysis sent straight to your phone by <\/strong>clicking here<\/a> <\/strong>to subscribe. You can also subscribe to our free newsletter service. <\/strong>Click here<\/a> <\/strong>to be sent all the day’s biggest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers are set to confirm their third arrival from the Turkish Super Lig in the space of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[115334,94,14590,35553,112642,112640,112641,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-317037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-david-akintola","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-football-league-championship","11":"tag-hull-city","12":"tag-hull-city-transfer-news","13":"tag-mkm-stadium","14":"tag-sergej-jakirovic","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114970315064954507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}