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

[Gabbiano]

Lucky sod living in Seville city for a year. No option to buy but risk is they fall in love with each other and he doesn’t want to return. Not sure they’d pay (or even afford) TB’s valuation, mind.

If we thought the Undav saga was painful, imagine Barco has a wonderful season at Sevilla.

As a young Argentine with limited English, do we really think little old Brighton has more draw than multiple Europa League champions and Spanish giants Sevilla? He'll be pushing to stay on there, that's my worry about this.

 

[fisons]

Seagull line 8049?

That's the number for Albion information every day, 24 hours a day.

 

[jcdenton08]

Weird how opinions can be so different. All along I have thought he was being bought to primarily play right back.

Let’s get the deal over the line first and then the boasting about how I’m right can happen later

 

[Hamilton]

I'm really surprised at this news and I think we'll regret it. I think Barco is a brilliant player and we're fools to loan him out.

 

[Bakero]

If we thought the Undav saga was painful, imagine Barco has a wonderful season at Sevilla.

As a young Argentine with limited English, do we really think little old Brighton has more draw than multiple Europa League champions and Spanish giants Sevilla? He'll be pushing to stay on there, that's my worry about this.

If they're happy to stump up the 65 million quid, they can keep him as long as we get a sell-on clause.

 

[FCB]

Think Sevilla loan would be good for Barco. Should get enough minutes to develop. They've just let Marcos Acuna leave on a free to River Plate to get rid of his high wages and only have Adria Pedrosa who is good going forward but liability defensively. So from that perspective a bit surprising they're looking at Barco who is a similar profile and not trying to sign a more defensively sound LB. Although tbf I believe their defensive struggles are mostly down to CBs and Garcia Pimienta likes attacking FBs. And I've also read some comments from Sevilla fans few weeks ago that Pimi doesn't rate Pedrosa too much (obviously had no other option but to play him as they were looking to offload Acuna though). So if that's true then Barco should become a starter sooner or later.

They also have problems to register new players so will only look for loans and free agents. Also seen them linked to Marcos Alonso but at this point he's arguably semi-retired (has barely played for Barca last season) and would probably still have high wage demands.

As a young Argentine with limited English, do we really think little old Brighton has more draw than multiple Europa League champions and Spanish giants Sevilla? He'll be pushing to stay on there, that's my worry about this.

Wouldn't worry too much about this. Sevilla is not in a position to invest any serious money in players and also far from guaranteed to qualify to play in European competitions next year (they're out of Europe this season too).

Maybe things will improve a bit for them until next year but I have hard time seeing them pay even 10m which I'm sure wouldn't be nowhere close to Brighton's valuation of Barco. It's more likely other PL clubs would come knocking on your doors if he has a good loan spell but that would've probably happened anyway.

Just as an example Sevilla had Boubakary Soumare on loan from Leicester last season with a €15m buy option and couldn't buy him despite being their best midfielder. Now they've signed Sambi Lokonga from Arsenal on a similar loan deal and doubt they'll buy him permanently either. 10-15m means nothing for PL clubs but is a significant money for most La Liga clubs.

 

[aolstudios]

He's just retweeted the other bloke and said that we have said that it's a loan, with no chance to sell. One thing I'm fairly sure of is that Romano hasn't got a contact at Brighton who he can phone up for this kind of clarification. Barber obviously has no time for him, wouldn't take his calls and wouldn't be at all happy if he found anyone else doing so. The only contact he would have is the agent and you can't trust a thing that agents say about anything.

He pretty much guesses, or just nicks from twitter rumours on other accounts. He's no more a reliable source than any of us. On the Albion, probably less

 

[Napper]

This is a mistake

unless Ferdi comes in ( and is half decent )

 

[Springal]

He pretty much guesses, or just nicks from twitter rumours on other accounts. He's no more a reliable source than any of us. On the Albion, probably less

I’m not sure he nicked anything given he quoted the source

 

[Bakero]

This is a mistake

unless Ferdi comes in ( and is half decent )

Surely, he's not going unless Ferdi comes in.

 

[GT49er]

Surely, he's not going unless Ferdi comes in.

Kadioglu is coming in (if he eventually does) to play RB - he's right footed, even if he has played B more often. And RB is a position we've been looking to fill, surely?

 

[Bakero]

Kadioglu is coming in (if he eventually does) to play RB - he's right footed, even if he has played B more often. And RB is a position we've been looking to fill, surely?

Yeah, I've made that point a couple of times on this thread. I expect Pervis to be first choice LB but Ferdi offers cover, in which case Veltman/Hinsh/Lamptey fill in on the right.

 

[oldboyroy]

Don't want to see him go as I thought he was the 1 shining light in the poor run last season.

 

[London Irish]

I think it's a very sensible move. Of course the player has rich potential but from what I've seen of him is a bit lightweight and gives away possession a bit too much. EPL such an unforgiving place for such a player. When we saw Facundo have a good game the other night, this is the plan working. When he has good games in Spain, we should be similarly happy that he is making good progress. Undav? Again worked out very well for us

 

[A mex eyecan]

think we may live to regret this one, still, what do I know, leave me in charge of a football club fir a week or two and disaster would be inevitable

 

[London Irish]

Fully entitled to your opinion, but I think people are forgetting just how good Pervis was in the season we qualified for Europe. He was absolutely immense and made the loss of Cucurella to be forgotten pretty quickly. Expect him to have a huge comeback year this year.

Hope it's not the case that Pervis is just very good in a team on a crest of a wave who dominate possession and are spearing into 6th place, but less good in a team under pressure who are being targeted down the wings. Time will tell

 

[CurbishleyRange]

That's the number for Albion information every day, 24 hours a day.

'The pitch is currently being res-seeded at the Goldstone while Barry Lloyd is running the rule over veteran Dave Swindlehurst' etc

 

[Mancgull]

Hope it's not the case that Pervis is just very good in a team on a crest of a wave who dominate possession and are spearing into 6th place, but less good in a team under pressure who are being targeted down the wings. Time will tell

He was targeted last year but do feel that he was playing whilst injured. We’ll see this coming season.

 

[fleet]

I dont see loaning out fullbacks as a great idea, we are a few inuries/suspensions away from a crisis in defence. That said he wasnt picked for the Everton match so I guess isnt viewed that well by the new manager.

 

[Super Sub]

This has been a crazy window so wouldn’t be surprised if he was being loaned out so we could borrow Chilwell for the season.