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[Albion] Valentín Barco **Season Loan To Sevilla 23/08/24**



Zeberdi

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I think the Twitter account is a fake. I believe he's got an official Instagram account with millions of followers though, but not sure how he refers to himself on that profile.
I’m not sure it is - it links to other content - however it is quite possible the account was/is maintained by his agent or another representative which wouldn’t be that unusual. I don’t have an X account so don’t know if there are many recent tweets.

https://twitter.com/intent/follow?r...-brighton-de-inglaterra&screen_name=colobarco

Seems to be ‘Colo’ on his Insta too ;

 




Brian Fantana

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I’m not sure it is - it links to other content - however it is quite possible the account was/is maintained by his agent or another representative which wouldn’t be that unusual. I don’t have an X account so don’t know if there are many recent tweets.

https://twitter.com/intent/follow?r...-brighton-de-inglaterra&screen_name=colobarco

Seems to be ‘Colo’ on his Insta too ;


A prominent Argentine journalist posting a warning message the other day to say the Twitter account was fake. That was prompted by a goodbye message being sent from said Twitter account. The numbers don't add up too. c10k followers on this Twitter account versus millions on Instagram.

Either way, Colo does indeed seem to be the adopted nickname.

Let's hope we get the shirt-holding picture soon!
 


chaileyjem

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I’m not sure it is - it links to other content - however it is quite possible the account was/is maintained by his agent or another representative which wouldn’t be that unusual. I don’t have an X account so don’t know if there are many recent tweets.

This South American ESPN journalist (and others) have called it out as a fake.
 












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He did add that we won’t see him for a bit because he’ll be off to some tournament until mid Feb
He's in a pre tournament camp with the Argentina squad (he's posted several pix of him training on his Insta). This is the u23 pre Olympics tournament - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CONMEBOL_Pre-Olympic_Tournament
Its held in Venezuela from 20 January to 11 February 2024.
The top two teams - Argentina are the holders - so you'd guess there's a strong chance Argentina will make the final - will qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics men's football tournament in France as the CONMEBOL representatives.
So a good chance he won't be flying to the UK until Feb 12th at the earliest.
 






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Tony Bloom stated on his recent tv appearance (sky i think) that EVERYONE except Solly should be fit by then as things stand.
Lamptey and Veltman were in the Dubai vid shared by the club yesterday.

Webster, Welbeck, and Estupinan were pretty much back to match fitness before Dubai

Mitoma is in the Japan Asia Cup squad - so they're hoping he'll be fit for the quarter finals onwards if they make them ?

and that just leaves
Ansu Fati, Adingra , Enciso, and Igor all presumably on track to be fit within 4-5 weeks.
 






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He's in a pre tournament camp with the Argentina squad (he's posted several pix of him training on his Insta). This is the u23 pre Olympics tournament - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CONMEBOL_Pre-Olympic_Tournament
Its held in Venezuela from 20 January to 11 February 2024.
The top two teams - Argentina are the holders - so you'd guess there's a strong chance Argentina will make the final - will qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics men's football tournament in France as the CONMEBOL representatives.
So a good chance he won't be flying to the UK until Feb 12th at the earliest.
I really wouldn't count on Argentina making it that far tbh (as an argentine)

Mascherano as a coach has been genuinely horrific
 














Nobby Cybergoat

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Tony Bloom stated on his recent tv appearance (sky i think) that EVERYONE except Solly should be fit by then as things stand.
On my count that would leave us with 24 fit senior players. That excludes Solly and Dahoud. It also excludes Valentin and any other purchases.

Which means, that if, in the unlikely event they do all return to us fit on that schedule plus we don't have any more injuries, we're faced with leaving between 4-6 players out of the matchday squad who would expect to be in it. Players like Baleba, Moder, Lallana, Lamptey would face a huge battle just to be on the bench.

However, we've got to get through mid to late Feb with what we've got before we can rely on those sort of riches. That's 6 or 7 fixtures still, almost exclusively against bottom half sides.
 




Insel affe

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Brighton factually.....
However, we've got to get through mid to late Feb with what we've got before we can rely on those sort of riches. That's 6 or 7 fixtures still, almost exclusively against bottom half sides.
Whooooooooooopeeeeeeeeeee...

That's 4 points guaranteed then :banana:
 


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On my count that would leave us with 24 fit senior players. That excludes Solly and Dahoud. It also excludes Valentin and any other purchases.

Which means, that if, in the unlikely event they do all return to us fit on that schedule plus we don't have any more injuries, we're faced with leaving between 4-6 players out of the matchday squad who would expect to be in it.
Until we pick up half a dozen NEW injuries, of course.
 


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