{"id":22901,"date":"2025-08-07T13:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/brighton-sets-a-price-of-e120m-for-baleba-are-manchester-united-and-city-lurking\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:59:04","slug":"brighton-sets-a-price-of-e120m-for-baleba-are-manchester-united-and-city-lurking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/brighton-sets-a-price-of-e120m-for-baleba-are-manchester-united-and-city-lurking\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton sets a price of \u20ac120M for Baleba: Are Manchester United and City lurking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Brighton Sets Price for Carlos Baleba: Transfer Rumors?<\/h2>\n\nBrighton has set a price of 120 million euros (approximately $139.4 million) for clubs interested in signing Carlos Baleba, according to sources close to the club.\n\nThe Cameroonian midfielder has sparked the interest of teams like Manchester United and Manchester City. Pep Guardiola, City&#8217;s coach, has long been an admirer of Baleba. In addition, R\u00faben Amorim has also shown interest in the 21-year-old player.\n\nAlthough Manchester United has not contacted Brighton, a possible signing of Benjamin Sesko could complicate any deal for Baleba.\n\nUnited are close to closing a deal for the RB Leipzig striker, for a figure close to 85 million euros, including variables.\n\nThe arrival of a midfielder at United could depend on the departure of players considered expendable by Amorim, such as Alejandro Garnacho.\n\nBaleba would be happy to stay at the Amex this summer, and a transfer would be more likely in a year.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0807%2Fr1528918_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Baleba podr\u00eda ser el pr\u00f3ximo jugador en dejar Brighton en un traspaso lucrativo.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nBaleba has become a key player under the direction of Fabian H\u00fcrzeler, after adapting to the Premier League.\n\nIn the past season, Baleba played 34 games in the Premier League with Brighton, scoring three goals and providing one assist.\n\nLille would receive 20% of any future transfer that exceeds the 30 million euros that Brighton paid for Baleba in 2023.\n\nIf Baleba is transferred, he would join the list of Brighton players who have been transferred to other Premier League clubs for large sums.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/45588250\/premier-league-2025-26-kits-ranking-every-jersey-released\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League 2025-26 kits analysis<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/45738348\/premier-league-preseason-club-fixtures-kick-s-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League preseason schedule: matches, times and results<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/45900396\/ian-darke-premier-league-preview-chelsea-dethrone-liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can Chelsea dethrone Liverpool in the Premier League?<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nMois\u00e9s Caicedo, Marc Cucurella and Jo\u00e3o Pedro currently play for Chelsea.\n\nBen White, Yves Bissouma, and Alexis Mac Allister were signed by Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, and Liverpool, respectively.\n\nBaleba played 34 games for Brighton in the Premier League last season, scoring three goals and providing one assist.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton Sets Price for Carlos Baleba: Transfer Rumors? Brighton has set a price of 120 million euros (approximately $139.4 million) for clubs interested in signing Carlos Baleba, according to sources close to the club. The Cameroonian midfielder has sparked the interest of teams like Manchester United and Manchester City. Pep Guardiola, City&#8217;s coach, has long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5205,6972,143,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-22901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-brighton","9":"tag-carlos-baleba","10":"tag-manchester-united","11":"tag-transfer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}