Brighton transfer news: ‘£30m bid submitted’ for 18-year-old after three defender exits

Brighton & Hove Albion person reportedly made a determination for Atalanta BC defender Honest Ahanor.

Defensive reinforcements volition beryllium precocious connected the docket for the Seagulls this summer, pursuing the £52m merchantability of Jan Paul van Hecke to Tottenham Hotspur and the departure of chap centre-back Adam Webster upon the expiration of his contract.

Joel Veltman is besides expected to permission erstwhile his woody officially runs retired adjacent Tuesday, arsenic the right-back is understood to person turned down the connection of a declaration extension.

In addition, determination is uncertainty implicit the semipermanent aboriginal of Diego Coppola who spent past play retired connected loan, portion long-serving skipper Lewis Dunk volition crook 35 aboriginal this year.

Head manager Fabian Hurzeler is hoping to bolster his squad up of the caller run erstwhile Brighton volition beryllium juggling home duties with Conference League football, aft finishing eighth successful the Premier League past season.

One subordinate who has emerged arsenic a people is 18-year-old Ahanor, with Ben Jacobs, via chap writer Alex Crook, claiming that Brighton person submitted a £30m (€34m) connection for the Atalanta starlet.

As things stand, it is understood that Atalanta bash not mean to portion ways with Ahanor, who was signed from Genoa past summertime for €20m, becoming the second-most costly Italian 17-year-old of each time.

Ahanor inactive has 2 years remaining connected his declaration with the Serie A nine and it would apt instrumentality a importantly higher connection to entertain Atalanta into selling the youngster.

Brighton measurement up Ahanor pursuit amid involvement from Europe’s elite

Earlier this year, it was reported that Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea were each intimately monitoring Ahanor’s concern and were weighing up a determination for the defender.

However, Brighton are seemingly the archetypal squad to initiate their pursuit for Ahanor, who enjoyed an awesome breakout play with Atalanta and featured regularly arsenic a elder player.

Primarily a centre-back who is besides comfy operating astatine left-back, Ahanor made 35 appearances for Atlanta crossed each competitions, including 22 successful Serie A and 9 successful the Champions League.

A son of Nigerian parents, Ahanor was handed his archetypal elder planetary headdress for the state of his birth, Italy, past period nether interim brag of Silvio Baldini, who selected a squad including mostly Under-21 players for friendlies against Luxembourg and Greece.

Brighton’s determination for Ahanor follows reports that the Seagulls are successful negotiations with Spurs implicit a woody for 19-year-old Luka Vuskovic, with a £45m bid said to beryllium connected the table.