[Albion] Facundo Buonanotte - SIGNED for 1.8 billion pesos

[tonyt]

Lads aged 18 and under usually have a host family to look after them. Club has a few apartments they put players up in too.

We had Ben White at ours for a few nights when he was trialling for the youth team. That’s my one claim to fame.

 

[Change at Barnham]

Confirmed by the club now

Albion reach agreement with Rosario for Buonanotte

Midfielder to join the club in January.

www.brightonandhovealbion.com

It’s possible they didn’t want to say anything yet but were forced to by the selling club releasing the information hence the couple of hours delay in saying anything. Most of the time both parties release the information together.

I would think that is almost certain.
The club don't want to be accused of failing to keep their fans engaged, even though they would have preferred to release the news on their terms.

 

[brighton_tom]

The kid must have shown some real potential, only made his professional debut in February

 

[Baldseagull]

We can probably get him a work permit because he's a promising youngster which means he doesn't need to meet the points criteria older players have to. He certainly won't get anywhere near the 15 points at the moment considering his lack of senior international football and being signed from a club that isn't playing in the Copa Libertadores/Copa Sudamericana.

Enciso is likely to have got a work permit through the same dispensation as although he's a full international the points he'd get for playing for Paraguay would not get him anywhere near the 15 points either.

Enciso had played group stage for Libertadores and his team went on to reach the Semi finals which then makes those appearances worth a chunk of points.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

How come this news has come out now? Not that I'm complaining, but it's normally done when a player actually SINGS - i.e. January...

 

[Machiavelli]

More recently Di Maria and Lo Celso are probably the most well known players to have come from Rosario Central.

The problem is nobody actually believes them lol In fact the most common theory is that the President really wanted to push the sale through before December because it'd mean he'd get to steal more money before leaving (Rosario Central has elections in December and it's very unlikely he'll win reelection).

It's kind of well known here in Argentina that club presidents are generally pretty corrupt and there's a trend of big lumps of transfer fees disappearing

Also Alexis' brother Francis plays for Rosario Central so they might be familiar with each other already. If he doesn't go on loan hopefully Alexis helps him settle in

Welcome, and I had a fine time in Buenos Aires when I visited (too briefly) a few years back. I hope the inflation situation isn't cutting as deep as feared.
Do you have any information of our scouts or scouting network in Argentina, or in the wider continent?

 

[GT49er]

Confirmed by the club - joining in January.

Albion reach agreement with Rosario for Buonanotte

Midfielder to join the club in January.

www.brightonandhovealbion.com

 

[brighton_tom]

Looks very confident on the ball for someone so young.

 

[Artie Fufkin]

We seem to have developed a preferred pathway for South American wonderkids into Premier League football.

It is the most extraordinary development I can remember as a fan of 60 odd years.

We should all be humble, proud and hugely excited that it is our club that is doing this.

Perhaps yet another emerging talent scouted by Sam Jewell?
This reminded me that the excellent BBC Senior Football Reporter / Commentator Ian Dennis earlier this year was heralding Sam as "a jewel in the recruitment system of Brighton & Hove Albion."
It seems Sam also played a major part in bringing us Enciso, Mac Allister and Caicedo.
I think he's Paul Jewell's son?

 

[Sheebo]

This is the one that fell through last minute in Aug right? The one that someone said is the next Messi or something.

Edit - found it - it was Carlos Tevez

 

[brighton_tom]

Cant remember who said it, but were we not told at one point that an upshot of brexit was that it would now be slightly easier for clubs to sign and get all the necessary permits/visas for players coming from south america. Seems we are really taking advantage of that and other Prem clubs are not.

 

[B-right-on]

This is the one that fell through last minute in Aug right? The one that someone said is the next Messi or something.

Edit - found it - it was Carlos Tevez

Yes to the point about signing but didn't quite happen then.

 

[B-right-on]

Cant remember who said it, but were we not told at one point that an upshot of brexit was that it would now be slightly easier for clubs to sign and get all the necessary permits/visas for players coming from south america. Seems we are really taking advantage of that and other Prem clubs are not.

My wife's Aunt is in South America and we tried 5-6x to get a visa for her to visit pre-Brexit and got turned down each time. Just got one approved with even less hoops to jump through. My personal experience.

 

[B-right-on]

Perhaps yet another emerging talent scouted by Sam Jewell?
This reminded me that the excellent BBC Senior Football Reporter / Commentator Ian Dennis earlier this year was heralding Sam as "a jewel in the recruitment system of Brighton & Hove Albion."
It seems Sam also played a major part in bringing us Enciso, Mac Allister and Caicedo.
I think he's Paul Jewell's son?

Shhhhhhhh. Otherwise you know who will be after him as well as the tea lady.

 

[canlison]

Welcome, and I had a fine time in Buenos Aires when I visited (too briefly) a few years back. I hope the inflation situation isn't cutting as deep as feared.
Do you have any information of our scouts or scouting network in Argentina, or in the wider continent?

Thank you! Unfortunately yeah, the inflation sucks as much as it seems. We're all very used to it though, we've been living with low grade inflation for decades pretty much and every once in a while it spikes into hyper inflation (like now)

Honestly, I have no idea what Brighton's scouting set up is like around here. It's very common to hear there are scouts during matches (when you're at the stadium and they usually mention it on TV as well) but they'll rarely say what teams they're from and when they do it's usually the more traditional European teams (although they rarely buy directly from here so who knows what they're doing)

 

[Blue3]

It’ll be harder than some of our recent South American signings.

No full international caps (he’s played for Argentina u-20s) and he hasn’t played in the Copa Libertadores.

Argument we could ask for special dispensation as he’s arguably ‘Argentinas greatest prospect’ and is getting regular game time already.

Interestingly he owns a Italian passport, so that opens doors to a EU loan move…

If only we had not left the EU and the free movement of people

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Perhaps yet another emerging talent scouted by Sam Jewell?
This reminded me that the excellent BBC Senior Football Reporter / Commentator Ian Dennis earlier this year was heralding Sam as "a jewel in the recruitment system of Brighton & Hove Albion."
It seems Sam also played a major part in bringing us Enciso, Mac Allister and Caicedo.
I think he's Paul Jewell's son?

Well he was learning Spanish back in 2018 to obviously help him work in that market without need of translators.

Sam is a top football scout and Recruitment Manager at Brighton and Hove Albion. He travels extensively throughout Spain and Latin America on his quest for the next Lionel Messi or Luis Suárez! “Sam needs to speak Spanish for his job” says Profesora Irvine, “and it will be such an advantage for him to be able to communicate with young footballers in their own language and negotiate terms and contracts in Spanish”.

Footballers learning Spanish in lockdown!

Profesora Irvine blog footballers learning Spanish in lockdown Josh Windass Sam Jewell

profesorairvine.co.uk

 

[Swansman]

The problem is nobody actually believes them lol In fact the most common theory is that the President really wanted to push the sale through before December because it'd mean he'd get to steal more money before leaving (Rosario Central has elections in December and it's very unlikely he'll win reelection).

It's kind of well known here in Argentina that club presidents are generally pretty corrupt and there's a trend of big lumps of transfer fees disappearing

Irony of the year if Brighton are abusing the presidents desire to asset strip the club...

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Irony of the year if Brighton are abusing the presidents desire to asset strip the club...

Well given we tried to sign him a while back I'd say that's not really on our radar is it now?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Tevez’s quoted comparisons to Messi about the lad make me very, very excited!

Maybe Facundo could persuade his mate to sign for us too