If we are only talking about purchasing power, the Premier League is alone at the summit, and no other league in the world comes close! The middle-of-the-table clubs spend more than some top-sitting clubs in other countries. Brighton are closing in on the 200,000,000 euros transfer amount as they splash another 50,000,000 for the striker while not too far away Bournemouth agreed on another attacker for 3 million euros less!If anyone can be said to have made top deals on the transfer market in recent years, it is without a doubt Brighton! If we count only the previous three seasons, the Seagulls collected over 400,000,000 euros from the sale of their best players alone, and half of that money came directly from Chelsea with the transfers of Moises Caicedo for 116,000,000, Marc Cucurella for 65,000,000 and Robert Sanchez for 23,000,000 euros.After huge sales, of which Caicedo’s was the most valuable not only in the history of the club, but also of the Premier League, it was the turn of the club from the south of the island to shake up the market with purchases! After massive transactions in the flank attacking positions, Brighton have decided to activate the buy-out clause for Leeds striker Georginio Rutter!🚨🔵🆕 Understand that Georginio #Rutter has now agreed to join Brighton with immediate effect ✔️22 y/o versatile striker from Leeds, strongly wanted by @OfficialBHAFC bosses and Fabian Hürzeler. Verbal agreement is done now. Details to be clarified today. Medical could… pic.twitter.com/9Q2mYwAKwt— Florian Plettenberg (@Plettigoal) August 15, 2024 As reported by Sky Sport, Brighton activated the buyout clause worth 50,000,000 euros at the last minute, because it expired at midnight. This further means that there are two options for Rutter – a move to Brighton or staying at Leeds.Brighton have done part of the job by activating the clause so that they don’t have to pay more money in compensation, now they can talk about personal details, although there is reportedly already a verbal agreement. With that, Leeds are also wondering because the club wants to keep him and is working to offer him better conditions than Brighton.However, Sky Sport claim that it could all be over quickly and a medical is expected to be scheduled in the next 48 hours. Rutter arrived in Leeds last January from Hoffenheim, when he signed a contract for five and a half years. The Eland Road club then paid around 40,000,000 euros for his compensation.He played 28 minutes in the defeat to Middlesbrough at the start of the League Cup. Since joining Leeds, he has scored eight goals and assisted 16 times in 51 appearances. If he were to leave, Leeds would face another serious loss this summer, with Archie Gray and Crysencio Summerville leaving for Tottenham and West Ham respectively.##NAJAVA_MECA_8269511##As for Brighton, this deal would increase the cost of reinforcements to over €170,000,000! Rutter would become the sixth reinforcement before the start of the new season, after Yankuba Minteh, Mats Wieffer, Ibrahim Osman, Malick Yalcouyé and Brajan Gruda, who signed the last one from Mainz for 30,000,000 euros. In the previous months, Brighton sold only two first-team players, Deniz Undav to Stuttgart for 27,000,000 euros, plus Pascal Gross to Dortmund for 7,000,000 euros.Not too far down the south coast of England, Bournemouth are doing their fair share of transfer business. After Brighton’s shopping spree, which is well on its way to spending 200,000,000 euros for new players, the transfer bomb was also activated by the Cherries. According to the information of transfer insider Fabrizio Romano, the Vitality Stadium club has arranged the arrival of Evanilson from Porto!The reaction of the Bournemouth leaders was expected after the record sale of Dominic Solanke to Tottenham for almost 65,000,000 euros, so the Porto striker will be the most expensive purchase in the club’s history. The entire deal will be worth 47,000,000 euros, with the compensation amounting to 36,000,000 euros, while the rest will come through bonuses.BREAKING: Bournemouth agree club-record £40.25m deal for striker Evanilson from Porto 🍒 pic.twitter.com/gGt3qol0pP— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) August 15, 2024 Evanilson had a great season in Portugal with 25 goals and seven assists, which he and the club have charged pretty well. He will travel to England in the next 24 hours to undergo medical examinations and then sign the documents to make the transfer official.It can be said that Porto got the most out of it, as they ‘wrestled’ with Bournemouth over financial details in the previous days. The English club stepped up the offer, which Porto eventually accepted.With this deal, Bournemouth have broken the 100,000,000 euro mark! Before Evanilson, left-wing striker Luis Sinisterra from Leeds for 23,000,000 euros, striker Enes Unal from Getafe for 16,500,000 euros, and stopper Dean Huysen from Juventus for 15,000,000, Barcelona’s right-back Julian Araujo for 10,000,000, plus Wellington goalkeeper Alex Paulsen for two million euros.The Cherries replaced two strikers in the same transfer window, as Kiefer Moore left for Sheffield United before Solanke and was replaced by Unal.##NAJAVA_MECA_8269430##
