Chelsea owners BlueCo agree £8m transfer to sign Brighton star

Brighton defender Valentin Barco is acceptable to articulation French broadside Strasbourg, according to reports.

The Seagulls completed a $10 cardinal (£7.8m) woody to motion Barco from Boca Juniors a twelvemonth ago.

During his clip successful Argentina, Barco had been tracked by respective Premier League clubs including Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea.

However, the 20-year-old has struggled to marque an interaction successful his archetypal fewer months astatine Brighton and was allowed to articulation Sevilla connected indebtedness past August.

Since moving to Spain, Barco has again struggled for playing time, starting conscionable 3 games successful La Liga truthful acold this season.

Sevilla person been looking to instrumentality Barco to Brighton but Fabrizio Romano reports that the Argentine has present agreed to articulation Strasbourg, which is portion of the BlueCo ownership alongside Chelsea.

It’s claimed that an archetypal indebtedness woody for Barco has been agreed, with Strasbourg paying €10 cardinal to marque the transportation from Brighton imperishable successful the summertime transportation window.

Brighton person besides secured a 10 per cent sell-on clause if Barco were to determination on. The left-back is owed to acquisition a aesculapian successful London connected Saturday earlier travelling to France connected Sunday to nexus up with his caller club.

Speaking connected Friday, Brighton caput coach, Fabian Hurzeler, made it wide that Barco would not beryllium returning to his side.

‘I deliberation astatine the infinitesimal present it’s not the close situation for him,’ Hurzeler said.

Asked if helium had monitored his advancement astatine Sevilla, Hurzeler said: ‘We travel each indebtedness player, we travel his development, we person indebtedness managers who are taking attraction of the indebtedness players and of people besides from my broadside I’m ever funny successful however the indebtedness players are doing.

‘I worked with them, it was not that agelong successful the pre-season but I worked with them truthful you physique a narration to them truthful of people I travel the improvement and I deliberation it’s besides portion of my occupation to bash this.’

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