Burnley have today completed the signing of Danish international winger Jacob Bruun Larsen from Bundesliga club 1899 Hoffenheim on a season long loan deal.
Larsen was a young player with his home town club Lyngby but left Denmark for Germany in 2015 to sign for Borussia Dortmund. He was just past his 19th birthday in 2017 when he was given his Bundesliga debut in a 3-0 win at Hamburg, coming on as a substitute for Dan-Axel Zagadou. It was his only appearance that season for Dortmund but he added four more Bundesliga appearances in the second half of the season during a loan at VfB Stuttgart. The third of those games was against his parent club which is permitted in Germany.
He stepped up in the next season back at Dortmund, playing 24 of their league games but played just four times for them in the first half of the 2019/20 season. Just days before Christmas 2019, he came on as a half time substitute for Thorgan Hazard against Hoffenheim. It proved to be his final game for the club and when the transfer window opened in the following month, he signed for Hoffenheim.
Larsen has remained at Hoffenheim since and has made fifty Bundesliga appearance and to add to that he played fifteen league games in the Belgian Jupiler League when he spent the second half of the 2020/21 season at Anderlecht, then managed by Vincent Kompany.
Last season, he was regularly in the first team squad but suffered a groin injury in November which ruled him out of the side until May. He came back to make one final appearance for Hoffenheim as a substitute in a 1-1 draw at Stuttgart.
Internationally, he’s featured for Denmark at all levels from under-16 upwards. He was in their Olympic squad in 2016 and made a full international debut in March 2019 in a friendly against Kosovo. He’s now played on six occasions for his country at full international level.
Larsen said on completing the loan move: “I’m really happy and excited to be here. I wanted to come to Burnley, the whole project really inspired me and as soon as I heard of the possibility, I knew it was what I wanted to do. It’s a dream for me to be here and get the opportunity to play in the Premier League. I hope we can do great things this season and I’m really looking forward to it now.”
He will now join fellow countryman Hjalmar Ekdal at Turf Moor and we wish him well.
