The Seagulls ended their pre-season unbeaten run with a 2-1 victory over Wolfsburg on Saturday, with Maxim de Cuyper, a 24-year-old Belgian defender signed for a reported £17.5m, scoring his first objective for the membership.
Baleba was absent as he continues to get better from a knee harm sustained in June, however is anticipated to be again for the opener towards Marco Silva’s Fulham.
Brighton chairman Paul Barber mentioned throughout a fan discussion board he hopes Baleba, who has three years left on his contract at Amex Stadium, stays “for years to come back” – however couldn’t make any guarantees.
Hurzeler, in the meantime, didn’t discuss Baleba’s scenario when showing on the Monday Evening Membership.
“It isn’t simple, however we proved final season that we’re a really aggressive workforce,” he mentioned about whether or not he feels annoyed when gamers are linked with rival golf equipment.
“With out Joao Pedro, for certain, he was an unbelievable participant. However we won’t substitute him with one participant, however we will substitute him as a workforce. And that is our focus.”
Brazil ahead Joao Pedro joined Chelsea for £60m on an eight-year contract this summer season.
Hurzeler continued: “We as a membership at all times discover options and I am certain sooner or later we are going to discover options. That is our mannequin, we’ve got to just accept it.
“I believe that as a membership we’ve got proved we aren’t solely promoting large gamers. We’ve got had presents for different gamers – large presents for [Kaoru] Mitoma and different gamers. We proved that we aren’t promoting each participant.
“After all there have been some large gamers who left the membership, however there are new gamers which can be coming into the membership. With the togetherness we’ve got, with the workforce chemistry we’ve got, we will compete with the large groups, and we will compete with groups who could be individually higher than us.”
