'Crazy' 'Another Teenage Korean Premier Leaguer Born' Yoon Do-young Reveals '£2 Million' in EPL Brighton Transfer Fee...a five-year contract with a fixed transfer
'Crazy' 'Another Teenage Korean Premier Leaguer Born' Yoon Do-young Reveals '£2 Million' in EPL Brighton Transfer Fee...a five-year contract with a fixed transfer
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18-year-old striker Yoon Do-young, dubbed the "Future of Korean Football," has confirmed his transfer to Brighton and Hove Albion (hereinafter referred to as Brighton), an upper-middle-ranking Premier League club.
Brighton and Daejeon Hana Citizen announced their transfer to Yoon through the club's official channel on Tuesday (Korea time). The contract period is five years, one year longer than previously announced. The transfer fee is reported to be 2 million pounds (about 3.8 billion won). This is an unusual treatment for a teenage prospect who just started to stand out in the K-League.
Ben Jacobs, a football reporter for CBS in the U.S., said on his SNS, "Brighton has recruited Yoon Do-young, an 18-year-old winger from South Korea. The contract period is five years and the transfer fee is 2 million pounds (about 3.79 billion won)." This was confirmed by Brighton's direct payment to Hana Citizen in Daejeon in the K League 1, and it is also evaluated as a "significant amount for prospective owners."
However, considering the size of the Premier League's market, the transfer fee of £2 million is considered a kind of "lottery investment" for Brighton. If Yoon Do-young shows better-than-expected growth, Brighton can earn huge profits, just as Ecuador midfielder Moises Caicedo moved to Chelsea for KRW 198 billion in the past.
What is unusual about this contract is that Yoon Do-young will not play in Brighton's first team in the 2024-25 season, but will be loaned to other clubs in Europe. The Brighton club said in an official announcement, "Yoon Do-young will join on July 1, when the transfer market will be held, but he will gain experience in other teams through loan in the 2025-26 season."
It is likely to be loaned to top-flight teams in Europe, such as Belgium or the Netherlands, which reminds them of the growth process of Kaoru Mitoma (Japan). Mitoma was loaned to Belgium's Winion Saint-Jillouaz after signing with Brighton in 2021, adapting to European football.
Yoon Do-young became the 19th Korean player to sign a contract with a Premier League club. This is a case of benefiting from the relaxation of regulations on the recruitment of foreign players in the Premier League, which was introduced in 2023. The system allows up to two foreign players without national team experience to be recruited from each team, and it was an opportunity for promising players including Yoon Do-young, Kim Ji-soo, Bae Jun-ho and Um Ji-sung to sign contracts with Premier League and Championship clubs.
Yoon Do-young signed a semi-professional contract with Daejeon Hana Citizen in January last year when he was a member of Chungnam Machinery Technical High School, and was converted to an official professional contract in August that year. Since then, he has proved his possibility by scoring one goal and three assists in 19 games in 2023, his debut season in the K League 1. Notably, his debut goal at 17 years, 10 months and 4 days remained as the youngest goal scorer in the K League since the club and the introduction of the promotion system in 2013. 메이저놀이터
Yoon Do-young, who continued her growth by securing a steady time to play in three games this year, also contributed to South Korea's third place by scoring one goal and one assist in all matches at the AFC U-20 Asian Cup in February. With this achievement, South Korea has secured a berth to the FIFA U-20 World Cup finals in Chile in September, and Yoon Do-young is also classified as a key resource of the national team.