Brighton set to sign two new defenders on deadline day

In what is shaping up to be a busy transfer deadline day, Brighton and Hove Albion are set to add two new defenders to their squad.

Italian right back Ezequiel Schelotto is to join for a fee of around £2m from Sporting Lisbon and he will be joined by our 400th signing of the summer from the Belgian League, centre back Stefano Denswil on a season long loan from Club Brugge.

Schelotto has spent most of his career in Italy, playing with the likes of Atalanta, Inter Milan, Parma and Chievo. He joined Sporting in November 2015 and has since played 34 games for the Portugese giants. Schelotto made his debut for Italy against England in 2012 in what remains his only cap.

A quick Google of Schelotto made us think we’d actually Googled a quite attractive woman by mistake. He has a very feminine face and, were it not for the fact he has a little beard, if we bumped into him on Pryzm on a Saturday night we would almost definitely try chatting him up. He is expected to provide competition to both Bruno and Liam Rosenior.

As for Denswil, he has been capped up to under 21 level by the Netherlands and previously played for Ajax before joining Brugge, where he has played with both Maty Ryan and Jose Izqueirdo.

Denswil’s arrival will free up Conor Goldson for a loan move to Ipswich Town, where he can play some much needed first team football after his recovery from a heart operation last season. Denswil will as a result be fourth choice centre back behind Lewis Dunk, Shane Duffy and Uwe Hunemeier.

Denswil could well form a promising partnership with “Google Me” Duffy. In 2013, he appeared naked in a photo with a girl on Instagram after he’d slept with her. The caption on the photo read “Lekker ploppen met Stefano Denswil” which translates to “Good luck with Stefano Denswil”.

Ajax manager Frank de Boer was not amused by the incident but acknowledged that there was little Denswil could have done to prevent it from happening, and asked that he stay focused on his career and not let the incident be a distraction.

These deals are of course certain to the players passing medicals which given all that has happened this summer is far from a formality.

There remains no news on a striker as of yet, but if we can pick up another 35 0-0 draws then…no, we won’t stay up actually will we?