Brighton have confirmed the signing of Georginio Rutter from Leeds United for a club-record price.
The Seagulls activated his £40million launch clause and the ahead has signed a five-year contract with the Premier League facet.
Rutter joined Leeds in January 2023, making 66 appearances in all competitions and netting eight targets.
He scored six of these within the Championship final season, although had the second-most photographs of anybody within the workforce (122), behind solely Crysencio Summerville.
His 15 assists final time period have been additionally essentially the most of any Leeds participant, whereas solely Leif Davies supplied extra within the competitors.
It was definitely worth the wait. Georginio is a Seagull! pic.twitter.com/qWon8C58Fh
— Brighton & Hove Albion (@OfficialBHAFC) August 19, 2024
Fabian Hurzeler stated: “Georginio is a participant who has the capabilities to get followers off their seats and actually confirmed what he can do in English soccer with Leeds final season — however I’ve identified about him since he performed in Germany for Hoffenheim.
“Now we’ve got to combine him into the workforce. We’re trying ahead to working with him.”
Rutter is the seventh signing for Brighton underneath Hurzeler, following Yankuba Minteh, Mats Wieffer, Amario Cozier-Duberry, Malick Yalcouye, Brajan Gruda and Ibrahim Osman into the squad.
