Brighton & Hove Albion have agreed a fee worth €17million plus €3m in add-ons with Fiorentina for defender Igor Julio.

The Athletic reported earlier this week Brighton’s interest in Julio. Re-signing Levi Colwill from Chelsea is their priority, but

they have not ruled out adding two left-sided defenders to the squad.

The club have now agreed a fee with the Italian club for the 25-year Brazilian defender who wants to leave Fiorentina had

attracted interest from Fulham, Nottingham Forest, and Villareal.

When asked about Igor, Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi said: ” Igor is a good player. He has the right quality, the right

characteristics to play in the Premier League.

“He can be the right player for us, to complete the squad and to be important for us.”

Igor joined Fiorentina from Italian third-division club SPAL in the summer of 2021.

The defender has made 110 appearances for the club, 42 of those coming last season where he helped the club achieve an

eighth-placed finish in the Serie A.

The centre-back also played a key role in his side’s UEFA Conference League run last campaign, where he made a substitute

appearance during the defeat to West Ham United in the final.

Brighton are next in action against Chelsea at the Lincoln Field Stadium on Sunday.

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Reports of €10m offer from Brighton for youngster dismissed – Seagulls ‘closely following’ him, but no bid

Brighton and Hove Albion are yet to make a firm offer for Universitario de Deportes youngster Piero Quispe, despite reports

to the contrary.

According to Martin’s information, Bright are ‘closely following’ Quispe as they continue to scour the world market for the

young stars of the future.

Several reports had indicated that they had made a €10m bid for the player but that is not the case, and he is only on

Brighton’s list of options for now.

They have a list of young Latin American players who they are following ahead of potentially signing the future and was

picked up thanks to the fact they have a ‘significant number of scouts’ in his homeland Peru.

That is why he has entered the club’s orbit and they are continuing to monitor him, although he also has potential suitors in

Germany as well.

Whether that pushes Brighton to move sooner rather than later and add him to their ever-expanding list of young talents

from Latin America remains to be seen.