Loaning players to Sevilla always comes with a massive warning tag attached, and clubs should be aware of what’s happened down the years at the Spanish club.
Loanees are often discarded as pieces of meat, and those who manage to do well immediately aren’t even valued as highly as one would expect.
On the face of it, and without that knowledge, sending Valentín Barco from Brighton & Hove Albion to Sevilla on loan wouldn’t have looked like such a bad idea but it’s worked out terribly for everyone involved.
Wednesday’s edition of [Estadio Deportivo](https://www.estadiodeportivo.com/), the sports newspaper local to Sevilla, has the Brighton owned player on the front page.
It’s stated his time at the La Liga side is ‘almost sunk’ and he’s set to return to Brighton when the January window opens.
The two clubs involved are already ‘preparing the ground’ for his return to England, and it’s thought that Brighton could then send him on loan elsewhere for the second half of this season.
[Cope Sevilla](https://www.cope.es/emisoras/andalucia/sevilla-provincia/sevilla/sevilla-deportes/noticias/valentin-barco-billete-vuelta-20241126_3053100.html) report his return as a sure thing, and say Barco’s time on loan has been ‘ghostly’.