The Seagulls ended their pre-season unbeaten run with a 2-1 victory over Wolfsburg on Saturday, with Maxim de Cuyper, a 24-year-old Belgian defender signed for a reported £17.5m, scoring his first purpose for the membership.
Baleba was absent as he continues to get better from a knee damage sustained in June, however is anticipated to be again for the opener in opposition to Marco Silva’s Fulham.
Brighton chairman Paul Barber mentioned throughout a fan discussion board he hopes Baleba, who has three years left on his contract at Amex Stadium, stays “for years to come back” – however couldn’t make any guarantees.
Hurzeler, in the meantime, didn’t discuss Baleba’s state of affairs when showing on the Monday Evening Membership.
“It is not simple, however we proved final season that we’re a really aggressive workforce,” he mentioned about whether or not he feels annoyed when gamers are linked with rival golf equipment.
“With out Joao Pedro, for certain, he was an unbelievable participant. However we won’t exchange him with one participant, however we are able to exchange him as a workforce. And that is our focus.”
Brazil ahead Joao Pedro joined Chelsea for £60m on an eight-year contract this summer season.
Hurzeler continued: “We as a membership at all times discover options and I am certain sooner or later we’ll discover options. That is our mannequin, we’ve to simply accept it.
“I believe that as a membership we’ve proved we’re not solely promoting huge gamers. We’ve had gives for different gamers – huge gives for [Kaoru] Mitoma and different gamers. We proved that we’re not promoting each participant.
“In fact there have been some huge gamers who left the membership, however there are new gamers which can be coming into the membership. With the togetherness we’ve, with the workforce chemistry we’ve, we are able to compete with the large groups, and we are able to compete with groups who may be individually higher than us.”
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