{"id":627832,"date":"2023-08-31T02:21:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T06:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=627832"},"modified":"2023-08-31T03:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T07:30:13","slug":"closing-in-brighton-ansu-fati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/31\/closing-in-brighton-ansu-fati\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Closing In\u2019: Romano Reports Brighton Win Race for In-Demand Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fabrizioromano\/status\/1696989511522091299?s=61&amp;t=sTox-EQn8gzxUW0CY2UHiA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> has reported that Ansu Fati has opted to join Brighton and Hove Albion in a loan deal until the end of the 2023\/24 Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p>[metabet_core_polling_tile query=&#8221;soe\/brighton&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;lastwordonsports&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Brighton \u2018Closing In\u2019 on Barcelona Winger Ansu Fati<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Brighton are closing in on Ansu Fati deal as Bar\u00e7a are prepared to accept the formal proposal received on loan \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BHAFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BHAFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ansu Fati has accepted Brighton as destination \u2014 De Zerbi, key factor.<\/p>\n<p>Final green light soon and then here we go \u23f3\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aHFWZcCIER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/aHFWZcCIER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1696989511522091299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Ansu Fati to Make Brighton Switch<\/h3>\n<p>Ansu Fati is a highly regarded 20-year-old winger but he faces stiff competition to get a starting berth with Catalan giants Barcelona. Barca already have teenager Lamine Yamal as well as Raphina and Ferran Torres, meaning a loan move could suit Fati.<\/p>\n<p><b>Watch- <\/b>How Brighton Continue to Work Transfer Magic<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Secret Sauce: How Brighton Outsmarts Premier League Rivals\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gLTdWRSYDBc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Lost Momentum<\/h3>\n<p>Fati shot to stardom at Barcelona as a 16-year-old but suffered a serious injury in 2021 and has struggled for form and game time ever since. He has been a substitute in all three of the first La Liga games of this season.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst a permanent move away from the Nou Camp is not an option, a loan move emerged as being the most logical move for the winger.<\/p>\n<h3>Father\u2019s Wishes<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/football\/1807662\/tottenham-news-ansu-fati-barcelona\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fati\u2019s father <\/a>is believed to feel that his son would have been better remaining in La Liga so that he stays attuned to the surroundings of that league, with Sevilla also reportedly holding an interest, but the player seems intent on heading to the Premier League for the remainder of the 2023\/24 season.<\/p>\n<h3>Roberto De Zerbi Key<\/h3>\n<p>De Zerbi enjoyed a strong season with the Seagulls in the 2022\/23 campaign with his attacking style much admired and he is also reported to have been key in this loan move with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fabrizioromano\/status\/1696988538414211323?s=61&amp;t=sTox-EQn8gzxUW0CY2UHiA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Romano stating: <\/a>\u201cAnsu Fati has accepted Brighton as destination \u2014 De Zerbi, key factor.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Brighton Pip Tottenham<\/h3>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/helenacondis\/status\/1696991216305328426?s=61&amp;t=sTox-EQn8gzxUW0CY2UHiA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Helena Condis Edo<\/a> had reported that a deal for Fati to join <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/30\/fati-chelsea-tottenham-barcelona-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham<\/a> was 99 per cent done, but it now appears that Brighton have come in with a late swoop to land the highly-rated youngster.<\/p>\n<p>Featured image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geograph.org.uk\/profile\/25219\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julian P Guffogg<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano has reported that Ansu Fati has opted to join Brighton and Hove Albion in a loan deal until the end of the 2023\/24 Premier League season. [metabet_core_polling_tile query=&#8221;soe\/brighton&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;lastwordonsports&#8221;] Brighton \u2018Closing In\u2019 on Barcelona Winger Ansu Fati BREAKING: Brighton are closing in on Ansu Fati deal as Bar\u00e7a are prepared to accept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":627864,"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":[1265,1365,3,7188,24],"tags":[4155,9284,9331],"class_list":["post-627832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-barcelona","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-tottenham","tag-ansu-fati","tag-barcelona-transfer-rumours","tag-brighton-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627832","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\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}