OFFICIAL: Sporting Lisbon loan out former Liverpool centre-back Ilori

By way of their official web site, Liga Portugal Bwin facet F.C. Paços de Ferreira have introduced the signing of former Liverpool centre-back Tiago Ilori.

The ex-Portugal U23 worldwide will symbolize Paços de Ferreira for everything of the 2022-2023 season on mortgage from Sporting Lisbon.

A product of the Sporting CP Academy, Ilori returned for a second spell on the Inexperienced and Whites in 2019 however has discovered it troublesome establishing himself as a primary crew common, resulting in mortgage spells at Lorient and Boavista

The Anglo-Portuguese-Nigerian defender made his senior debut for Sporting CP within the 2011-2012 season and three seasons later transferred to Liverpool, the place he spent 4 years.

Recreation time was onerous to come back by on the Premier League giants and he was shipped off on mortgage to Granada, Bordeaux and Aston Villa, earlier than incomes a everlasting switch to Studying.

Ilori has a number of caps for Portugal’s youth groups and was a part of the squad that participated within the 2016 Olympic Video games.