{"id":655435,"date":"2025-06-08T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T12:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=655435"},"modified":"2025-06-08T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T12:56:10","slug":"brighton-close-to-charalampos-kostoulas-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/08\/brighton-close-to-charalampos-kostoulas-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton Confident of Signing ‘Clinical Finisher’ Amid Chelsea Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brighton & Hove Albion are looking to strengthen their attacking options ahead of the start of the 2025\/26 Premier League campaign. <\/span>They are now pushing for the signing of Olympiacos’ young forward Charalampos <\/span>Kostoulas,<\/span> but face a <\/span>bit of a challenge to snap him up<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brighton & Hove Albion Confident of Bagging Charalampos Kostoulas<\/span><\/h2>\n

How Much Will He Cost Brighton?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Sky Sports reporter Florian Plettenberg has\u00a0<\/span>reported<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that the Seagulls are now very confident of securing an agreement for the signing of the 18-year-old striker in the summer window. <\/span>He cites Chelsea as an interested party but claims that it’s still <\/span>not clear if<\/span> the Blues will <\/span>be making<\/span> a <\/span>major<\/span> move to hijack the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The reporter has claimed that Brighton’s agreement with the Greek club <\/span>is not <\/span>finalised<\/span> yet, but that the two clubs are now in an advanced stage of negotiations <\/span>and<\/span> the Premier League side <\/span>are<\/span> working hard to <\/span>get a<\/span> deal <\/span>done<\/span>.<\/span> It’s<\/span> also added that the entire financial package for this deal <\/span>is going to<\/span> be around \u00a339.6 million.<\/span> Kostoulas is actually under contract with Olympiacos until the end of June 2030, which is why Brighton will have to pay a <\/span>major<\/span> fee to sign him this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Can Kostoulas Bring to Brighton?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Brighton are seemingly looking to add more firepower to their frontline as support for Danny Welbeck, who scored 10 goals in the 2024\/25 Premier League campaign. The Seagulls could be getting a talented and versatile forward. Kostoulas is naturally a centre-forward but can also play as an attacking midfielder or as a right-winger if needed, showing impressive adaptability.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The teenager has scored nine goals in 35 appearances for Olympiacos so far, having scored 15 goals in 20 matches for their under-19 team. The Greek forward has\u00a0<\/span>been praised<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for being a “clinical finisher” and has even been dubbed Babistuta, a homage to former Argentina legend Gabriel Batistuta. Kostoulas can add more energy to the Brighton frontline, as he boasts impressive pace and link-up ability along with his efficiency in converting chances. It’s now down to the Seagulls to beat the competition and sign the 18-year-old.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brighton & Hove Albion are looking to strengthen their attacking options ahead of the start of the 2025\/26 Premier League campaign. They are now pushing for the signing of Olympiacos’ young forward Charalampos Kostoulas, but face a bit of a challenge to snap him up. Brighton & Hove Albion Confident of Bagging Charalampos Kostoulas How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":653589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[3,1265,11,30,7188],"tags":[9331,32306],"class_list":["post-655435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-chelsea","category-news","category-rumours","tag-brighton-transfer-rumours","tag-charalampos-kostoulas"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655435","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\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655435"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655454,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655435\/revisions\/655454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}