{"id":615182,"date":"2022-07-22T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T17:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=615182"},"modified":"2022-07-22T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T17:11:29","slug":"brighton-top-scorer-subject-to-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/22\/brighton-top-scorer-subject-to-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Serie A Club Submit Bid for Brighton and Hove Albion Top-Scorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Naylor of <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/news\/brighton-transfer-news-neal-maupay\/ipZl63zqbVbB\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Athletic<\/a> is reporting that Serie A club Salernitana have submitted a bid for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/09\/brighton-to-offer-marc-cucurella-new-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Brighton and Hove Albion<\/a>\u00a0top-scorer Neal Maupay. It is believed that the offer is worth around \u00a315 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old who signed from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/04\/04\/top-four-race-blown-wide-open-after-chelsea-lose-to-brentford\/\" target=\"_self\">Brentford<\/a> three years ago for \u00a314 million has just one year left on his current contract. Despite being the Seagulls top-scorer for the past three seasons, it is expected that January signing Deniz Undav will be first choice for the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<h2>Salernitana Make Offer for Brighton and Hove Albion Top-Scorer Neal Maupay<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive, Brighton receive \u00a315m offer from Italy for Neal Maupay. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BHAFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BHAFC<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v8ynp1PSTY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/v8ynp1PSTY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Naylor (@AndyNaylorBHAFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndyNaylorBHAFC\/status\/1550500523647942656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Salernitana Looking for Improved Serie A Performance<\/h3>\n<p>I Granata\u00a0(The Garnets) returned to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/08\/paris-saint-germain-interested-gianluca-scamacca\/\" target=\"_self\">Serie A<\/a> last season for the first time in 23 seasons. Despite surviving relegation, it proved to be a difficult campaign. They sacked their manager just two months into the new season; however, for the majority of the time, the club struggled in Italy&#8217;s top flight.<\/p>\n<p>When all looked lost with relegation edging closer, Salernitana produced a great escape. 18 points from their remaining 15 games were enough to survive despite finishing with the lowest points of any team to survive in Serie A history.<\/p>\n<p>The club appear to want to avoid a repeat performance by adding <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/14\/tottenham-hotspur-bargain-fee-midfielder\/\" target=\"_self\">Brighton and Hove Albion<\/a> top-scorer Maupay to their new-look team. Should the striker sign for the reported \u00a315 million it would more than double their current transfer fee record of \u00a36.3 million to bring defender Matteo Lovato to the club.<\/p>\n<h3>Maupay Could Be Pushed Down Pecking Order at Brighton if He Stays<\/h3>\n<p>Neal Maupay has been Brighton&#8217;s top-scorer for the past three seasons; however, he could be pushed down the pecking order should he stay at the club. German striker Denis Undav who was signed in January but was immediately loaned back to Union Saint-Gilloise has scored an impressive 115 goals in 231 games so far in his career. According to the report in The Athletic, it is believed that Undav is set to be first choice next season.<\/p>\n<p>Undav scored his first goal for Brighton in a recent friendly against Estoril and Maupay has been quick to praise Albion&#8217;s pre-season and their new players. Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightonandhovealbion.com\/news\/2680444\/maupay-weve-got-to-know-our-new-teammates\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brightonandhovealbion.com<\/a>, he said: \u201cThis week has been really good in terms of work and team spirit. We had time to spend together to get to know the new players and it\u2019s been great.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a strong squad, we know we\u2019ve got some new players and we\u2019re looking forward to playing with them. We\u2019ve trained hard this week and got to know each other better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeniz and Kaoru got their first goals. Everyone worked hard and everyone had time today on the pitch, it was a positive game at the end of a positive week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serie A side Salernitana have reportedly submitted an offer for Brighton and Hove Albion top-scorer Neal Maupay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":615184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,1265,7188,5],"tags":[9331,3227,8839],"class_list":["post-615182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-rumours","category-serie-a","tag-brighton-transfer-rumours","tag-neal-maupay","tag-salernitana"],"modified_by":"Barry Dixon, LWOF Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615182","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}