Premier League club plan to win race for Germany World Cup wildcard by signing his brother

Brighton have a singular plan to beat Premier League rivals within the race to land Mentioned El Mala by making the switch a household affair.

The Seagulls’ lauded recruitment mannequin earmarked the 19-year-old in Germany’s third division final summer time – and have since watched him blossom into one of many Bundesliga’s greatest breakout stars.

His kind for Köln, aka Cologne, earned him his first worldwide call-up in November after simply over 501 top-flight minutes.

Brighton stay within the five-cap Germany U21 star, who has additionally attracted curiosity from Manchester United and Tottenham.

Nonetheless, Fabian Hürzeler’s facet hope to have the sting on the Premier League’s ‘massive six’ by signing El Mala’s brother Malek as nicely.

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talkSPORT’s chief soccer correspondent, Alex Criminal, instructed Matterface and Jordan: “It is a actually attention-grabbing one. It was reported in The Instances. I’ve tried to do some digging on it this morning, and there does appear to be some substance to it.

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“Mentioned El Mala, who was enjoying within the German third tier for his native membership solely final season, he is now starring within the Bundesliga.

“He is bought an out of doors likelihood, apparently, of constructing Germany’s World Cup squad.

“He is the proper profile for Brighton and their knowledge fashions. In order that they’re not solely in him, however in his brother Malek.

“And I believe they’re seeking to probably signal each of them, hoping that getting Malek would persuade Mentioned to affix them.

“So, yeah, I imply, it seems like a superb signing on paper for Brighton.”

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Brighton’s recruitment mannequin

The south coast outfit’s switch technique has typically been labelled because the blueprint for English golf equipment in discovering hidden gems.

9 of the membership’s prime 10 most costly gross sales have been to Premier League rivals, and all have come throughout the previous 4 and a half years.

But there was little proof to counsel that Brighton’s latest crop will generate a Moises Caicedo or Joao Pedro kind revenue.

Throughout the Seagulls’ 2-0 win over Brentford, solely two of the 9 gamers who arrived in Hürzeler’s first summer time began – whereas his three most costly signings had been all unused substitutes.

Criminal added: “I might argue one of many points they’ve had this season is that they’ve not in all probability invested sufficient in skilled gamers.

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“And we noticed on the weekend that they put the skilled heads again within the staff. James Milner, on the age of 40, breaking the Premier League look report.

“And so they’ve picked up a superb 2-0 win at Brentford.

“So I believe they’re going to hold investing in younger gamers, however I believe they’re conscious they want that have as nicely.”

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Brighton’s proposed plan for {the teenager} mirrors the one taken by Köln themselves once they landed El Mala and his older brother, Malek, from metropolis rivals Viktoria Köln in 2024.

A switch ban meant the siblings had been despatched again on mortgage to the German third-tier facet final seasonthe place Mentioned significantly flourished.

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The youthful El Mala scored 13 targets en path to being named the three. Liga Newcomer of the Season, and Brighton quickly made their transfer.

Köln, who had already missed out on a bumper payday when Bayer Leverkusen poached an rising Florian Wirtz, resisted the curiosity.

That call appeared impressed when El Mala scored six targets and registered three assists throughout his first 13 senior Bundesliga matches.

Nonetheless, the 6ft 2in winger has accomplished 90 minutes in Germany’s top-flight simply twice within the 10 gameweeks since.

European soccer knowledgeable Andy Brassell solely instructed talkSPORT.com: “It has been tough for him to kick on, really.

“He is virtually turn out to be a hub of a little bit of a tradition struggle in Cologne, as a result of as they’ve began to battle a little bit bit, Lukas Kwasniok, the coach, has generally not began El Mala.

“That’s one thing that has deeply angered a whole lot of followers, each on-line and within the stadium, and it has been tough for folks to grasp.

“Cologne has not had a whole lot of gamers you could say are superstars and actually get you out of your seat. El Mala is that.

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‘They wish to promote him for optimum worth’

“He will get the ball, and he goes previous gamers. He is an extremely direct winger. He is in a position to contribute targets, and he is completed that.

“Actually good groups like Bayern Munich have struggled to deal with him this season. And he scored at Hoffenheim on the weekend with that form of tempo, that directness, that skill to make choices at tempo and the flexibility to execute at tempo.

“Within the final couple of weeks, a whole lot of native media hypothesis has been saying, nicely, he’ll undoubtedly be gone on the finish of the yr as a result of he does not really feel like he is enjoying sufficient, which is absolutely unhappy.

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“El Mala must play. The membership wants him to play to maintain his worth up as a result of once they promote him, they wish to promote him for optimum worth. They’ll solely promote him as soon as.

“And I believe the followers actually wish to be bathing in his brilliance till the second that he goes. And so they need to.

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“He would have been a Germany World Cup wildcard. However as a result of he is not began as a lot lately and Kwasniok has at all times been a little bit bit reticent to start out him, I believe he is much less and fewer prone to make the ultimate squad, even with enlarged squads going into the World Cup, which might be a disgrace.

“I might like to see him do it for Germany, simply as I wish to see him play for Cologne each week till such occasions as he will get bought on.”