{"id":595548,"date":"2021-07-06T07:15:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T11:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=595548"},"modified":"2021-07-06T07:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T11:15:50","slug":"enock-mwepu-completes-brighton-hove-albion-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/06\/enock-mwepu-completes-brighton-hove-albion-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Enock Mwepu Completes Brighton &#038; Hove Albion Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/06\/brighton-hove-albion-ajax-kjell-scherpen\/\" target=\"_self\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a> have completed the signing of RB Salzburg midfielder Enock Mwepu. The 23-year-old Zambian international has joined the Seagulls on a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee from the Austrian champions.<\/p>\n<h2>Brighton Sign Enock Mwepu<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d Albion are pleased to confirm the signing of Enock Mwepu from reigning Austrian champions <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedBullSalzburg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RedBullSalzburg<\/a> on a four-year deal, on undisclosed terms.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc4b Welcome, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnockMwepu45?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@EnockMwepu45<\/a>!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BHAFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BHAFC<\/a> \ud83d\udd35\u26aa<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brighton &amp; Hove Albion (@OfficialBHAFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialBHAFC\/status\/1412365718570647553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Potter &#8216;Delighted&#8217; to Land Midfielder<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightonandhovealbion.com\/news\/2184726\/mwepu-joins-albion-from-red-bull-salzburg\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club website<\/a>, Brighton head coach Graham Potter said: &#8220;We&#8217;re delighted to be able to welcome Enock to the club and are looking forward to working with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has a great deal of experience for somebody of his age, including Champions League and international football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s primarily a central midfielder, although he is capable of playing in numerous positions, is open-minded, adaptable and very keen to learn and develop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will add competition to our existing options in that area of the squad going into the new season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/05\/brighton-transfer-news-enock-mwepu-mat-ryan\/\" target=\"_self\">Reports of Mwepu&#8217;s interest<\/a> to Brighton emerged earlier this week. It is not yet known whether he has been brought in as a replacement for Yves Bissouma, who has been linked with numerous clubs this summer ahead of a move away.<\/p>\n<p>If Brighton are able to keep him, though, they will have an excellent midfield base of Bissouma and Mwepu.<\/p>\n<h3>Career So Far<\/h3>\n<p>Mwepu started his career in his native Zambia with NAPSA Starts before moving to Kafue Celtic a year later and eventually to Austria with Salzburg.<\/p>\n<p>Over his four years at the Red Bull Arena, he made 81 league appearances, scoring 11 goals and assisting a further nine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In England for a new challenge\ud83d\ude03<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#EM<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/12MANagement?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#12MANagement<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J5zHf37Hpn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/J5zHf37Hpn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Enock Mwepu (@EnockMwepu45) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnockMwepu45\/status\/1412365944073207820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He also played in every one of Salzburg&#8217;s Champions League group games last season, having made his debut in that competition in a 4-3 defeat against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/01\/asking-price-manchester-united-liverpool-kingsley-coman\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a> the year before.<\/p>\n<p>Mwepu was on the scoresheet in this year&#8217;s OFB-Cup final, where his side won 3-0 against LASK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"BCWsj3P4QHlVQhbilPNswg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1233052223\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'BCWsj3P4QHlVQhbilPNswg',sig:'sX4bgiUXod78anl8KpmFWPbF9s3xRo-6sxA0mVCMrt4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1233052223',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton &amp; Hove Albion have completed the signing of RB Salzburg midfielder Enock Mwepu. The 23-year-old Zambian international has joined the Seagulls on a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee from the Austrian champions. Brighton Sign Enock Mwepu &nbsp; \u270d Albion are pleased to confirm the signing of Enock Mwepu from reigning Austrian champions @RedBullSalzburg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":595549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1265,3,28],"tags":[8725,4238],"class_list":["post-595548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-enock-mwepu","tag-rb-salzburg"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}