Brighton simply can’t preserve getting away with it! After a number of swoops in South America have landed them superstars-in-the-making like Moises Caicedo, Facundo Buonanotte, and plenty of extra, they’re about to do it once more.

The Seagulls are reportedly near signing Valentin Barco from Boca Juniors for a price of simply €10 million.

That’s a ridiculously low cost price for one of many premier skills within the South American continent who has positional versatility. Most significantly, he suits Roberto de Zerbi’s techniques of ball possession and motion completely.

Who’s Valentin Barco?

The 19-year-old performs for Boca Juniors and has been deployed all through the left facet in his profession. He has performed as a left winger, left midfielder, and left-back.

Evidently, his left-footedness and diminutive determine for an expert footballer (he’s 5’8″) make him a handful to cope with at his tempo and agility.

His rejigging right into a left-back has occurred pretty just lately and he took to that position effectively too. That place offers him more room to run into from deeper areas and he frequently supplies attacking thrust from his place.

Furthermore, it has allowed him to develop the defensive elements of his recreation which have been a bit missing.

To do all this at simply 19 for a South American large speaks volumes about his expertise and persona.

Match at Brighton

His positional versatility helps, however one ought to presume that firstly, he could be too slight to play left-back full-time within the Premier League.

Nevertheless, in the long run, it’s arduous to look past that place for Barco. Pervis Estupinan has began turning heads for his performances at LB just lately.

He seems set to comply with the Cucurella route by becoming a member of a extra “elite” membership, though with Brighton performing the way in which they’ve been, “extra elite” is used loosely right here.

Estupinan changed Cucurella and now Barco seems set to proceed the chain of undervalued gamers available in the market being snapped up by the Seagulls earlier than their worth explodes.

Switch curiosity

It’s a true coup for the Brighton mission that Manchester Metropolis have been concerned about Barco however they’re those in the end sealing the deal.

The mission on the south coast has reached some extent the place South American gamers are shortly making Brighton because the membership of their alternative in the event that they need to go on to larger and higher issues of their careers.

Moreover Metropolis, Leicester Metropolis, Chelsea, and PSG have additionally been credited with an curiosity at varied factors just lately.

Nevertheless, Brighton is one of the best place for his improvement as he’ll discover a wholesome South American contingent and a historical past of success for that contingent to rely on.

Barco has lengthy been touted as one of many “certain issues” at any time when he leaves South America.

It’s poetic then, that when he seems prone to depart now, it’s to go to a membership that’s as near a “certain factor” as attainable in soccer for a South American.