Hibernians secured the services of Brazilian twenty-seven year old central defender Eriks de Souza Santos Pereira.

A product of Internacional, he moved to Ukraine to join the second team of FK Mariupol. Later, he had a spell with FC Dila in Georgia but then moved to HFX Wanderers in Canada

The Paolites, who have just appointed Branko Nisevic as their new coach, had earlier signed goalkeeper Jonathan Debono, Samuel Okoh, Claudio Bonanni, Armen Hovhannisyan and Giannis Bastianos.