{"id":600596,"date":"2026-08-21T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/600596\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:14:10","slug":"man-utd-transfer-news-club-agree-70m-fee-for-brightons-carlos-baleba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/600596\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd transfer news: Club agree \u00a370m fee for Brighton’s Carlos Baleba"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United<\/a> have agreed a fee of up to \u00a370m for Brighton<\/a> midfielder Carlos Baleba.<\/p>\n

The two clubs reached a breakthrough in negotiations on Friday evening, which left the 22-year-old free to complete his medical with the Old Trafford outfit this weekend.<\/p>\n

United targeted the Cameroon international this week after deciding to strengthen their midfield further following the earlier arrivals of Andrey Santos from Chelsea<\/a> and Youri Tielemans from Aston Villa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They will pay an initial \u00a365m, plus a potential \u00a35m in add-ons, while the Seagulls have also negotiated a sell-on clause.<\/p>\n

Baleba, who joined Brighton<\/a> from Lille in 2023, is currently sidelined with an ankle injury he picked up during their pre-season training camp in Austria.<\/p>\n

Once the deal goes through, it will take United’s summer spending up to \u00a3153m.<\/p>\n

However, it is also a huge saving on what Brighton<\/a> were demanding as the 2025 transfer deadline approached.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether United will continue to search for a left-back to challenge Luke Shaw, or whether Baleba, a left-footed player who has played in that position on occasion, and regular right-backs Diogo Dalot and Noussair Mazraoui – who have both been used on the left – can provide the cover head coach Michael Carrick needs.<\/p>\n

The transfer ends United’s attempts to strengthen their midfield following the departure of veteran Brazilian Casemiro after his contract expired.<\/p>\n

Manuel Ugarte was also expected to leave this summer, but he suffered a serious knee injury on World Cup duty with Uruguay.<\/p>\n

In addition to Santos and Tielemans, England international Kobbie Mainoo will be available for the Saturday lunchtime Premier League trip to newly promoted Hull City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Baleba should give Carrick’s side additional athleticism and the Cameroon international’s eagerness to make the move north helped speed up the transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United have agreed a fee of up to \u00a370m for Brighton midfielder Carlos Baleba. The two clubs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-600596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}