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The transfer was made only once, and the value soared almost 700%. I'm already looking forward to seeing how much more value will rise in the future.
Another 'super' born in Korean soccer has left for England. Yoon Do-young (19), who made his professional debut as a high school student in 2024 from Hana Citizen in Daejeon, K League 1, has suddenly moved to Brighton in the English Premier League (EPL).
Daejeon and Brighton both announced Yoon Do-young's transfer on the 21st (Korea time). Yoon's joining is this summer. Brighton said `Yoon Do-young joins on July 1st when the transfer window begins' The contract period is until June 2030 and expects to be loaned to other teams during the 2025-2026 season (in its first season).
It can be seen that Brighton has quite high expectations for Yoon Do-young, given that he announced a five-year long-term contract and a plan to foster it through rent immediately. It is a trend of EPL to recruit and grow prospects in their late teens. This is because the transfer fee is low and it can be used for a long time when its potential explodes in the future. If you transfer after growing up, you can expect a large transfer fee profit.
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| Provided by Yoon Do-young (Daejeon Hana Citizen) and Yang Min-hyuk (Kangwon FC) when playing in K League 1=Korea Professional Football League |
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This is why Tottenham Hotspur recruited Yang Min-hyuk (19) from Gangwon FC last year. Tottenham brought not only Yang Min-hyuk, but also prospects of the same age, including Archie Gray (19) and Lucas Beribal (19), who were born in 2006. Currently, Gray and Beribal are playing in Tottenham's first-team match, and Yang Min-hyuk is on loan to the English Championship (second division) QPR to foster them.
Yoon Do-young, like Yang Min-hyuk, who is close to him, is expected to experience his first overseas league season as a rental. No specific loan club has emerged yet. If you go to the championship team, you can expect a face-off with Yang Min-hyuk. This means that there is a possibility that the two supernovae, the future of Korean soccer, will compete in good faith with each other and grow explosively.
It is completely unpredictable to what position Yoon Do-young and Yang Min-hyuk will be able to grow. In the end, there may be an ending of failing to adapt and making a U-turn to the K-League, and on the contrary, we can expect a situation in which it ranks as a global star player like Park Ji-sung (retired) or Son Heung-min (Tottenham).
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What is important is that Yoon Do-young's value has already soared due to this transfer. Since it went to a big stage, the value of growth potential is reflected.
First of all, the transfer fee Yoon Do-young received through this Brighton transfer was found to be 2 million pounds (about 3.79 billion won). Reporter Ben Jacobs, a transfer market expert who contributes to Give Me Sports in the UK, said on his SNS on the 22nd. He said 'Brighton has confirmed that Yoon Do-young will join Yeop. The contract is for five years, and the transfer fee is £2 million'
For the EPL team, it is a very low amount. However, this is a huge amount of money for Yoon Do-young and Daejeon. This is because the amount has increased nearly seven times compared to the previous one.
According to Transfermarkt, which evaluates the value of global soccer players, Yoon Do-young's latest market value was 350,000 euros (about 550 million won). The amount was assessed as of early December 2024, which did not reflect the issue of joining Brighton. In other words, up until then, Yoon was a player who could receive around 350,000 euros in transfer fees.
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However, according to reporter Jacobs, the actual transfer fee incurred during the Brighton transfer process was £2 million. The value has gone up tremendously. Based on Hanwha, a player worth 550 million won was sold for 3.79 billion won, an increase of about 6.8 times. The rate of increase is 680%, and it is a huge surge.
But this is just the beginning. If Yoon Do-young grows further through a loan and returns to Brighton to become a main player, we can expect this kind of increase. The transfer fee is now £1 million, but it could go up to £10 million.
Brighton expects a time like this to come in five years. I'm looking forward to how much Yoon Do-young, who just made her first step on the overseas stage, will grow.
Reporter Lee Won-man wman@sportschosun.com
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
