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title: "Honest Ahanor Bid Gives Brighton Serious Atalanta Transfer Test"
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# Honest Ahanor Bid Gives Brighton Serious Atalanta Transfer Test

**Brighton have reportedly made a bid worth around £30million for Atalanta defender Honest Ahanor, turning their recent interest into a serious summer test.**

[Football Italia, via Yahoo Sports](https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/brighton-lodge-34m-bid-italy-140500291.html), reports that Albion have lodged an offer in the region of €34million for the 18-year-old.

Ben Jacobs has also stated that Brighton have moved for the Atalanta centre-back, with the bid placed at around £30million.

> Brighton have made a bid of around £30m for Atalanta defender Honest Ahanor.🇮🇹\
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> 🤝 [@alex\_crook](https://x.com/alex_crook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/NUVGQsx4sS](https://t.co/NUVGQsx4sS)
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> — Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) [June 26, 2026](https://x.com/JacobsBen/status/2070619035226546552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

## Atalanta Stance Makes This A Proper Brighton Test

This is no speculative punt.

Ahanor only joined Atalanta from Genoa last summer, and the Italian club are under little pressure to sell after a season in which the teenager built a major senior profile.

That is why Brighton’s move is significant.

Albion had already looked at the player from an exploratory angle, but a bid changes the temperature.

The left-footed defender fits the club’s recruitment logic: young, scalable, technically flexible and already exposed to elite Serie A and European football.

After the exit of Jan Paul van Hecke, Brighton need to rebuild defensive upside without losing long-term resale value.

That is where Ahanor makes sense for Fabian Hurzeler.

This would not be a cheap depth addition. It would be a statement investment in the next defensive core, at a point when Brighton’s European schedule has made early squad clarity more important.

Read Brighton has already looked at why [Costinha’s arrival gives Hurzeler useful right-back depth](https://readbrighton.com/2026/06/24/costinha-brighton-signing-hurzeler-right-back/), and Ahanor would attack a different part of the same problem.

Atalanta can still hold firm, but Brighton have now placed a clear number on the table.

For Hurzeler, this would be a statement addition rather than a squad filler.