Jack Harper has targeted a first team breakthrough in his second season with Albion.

The Spanish-born Scot wants to kick on with the Seagulls after joining them from Real Madrid last summer with an injury, which delayed his hopes of making an instant impact.

Versatile attacker Harper, on target eight times in 15 outings for the under-21s, said: “I finished the season very well I thought personally but it was right at the end of the season.

“I am still learning a different style of game, a different kind of culture. I was still getting to grips with everything then it finished really soon for me so that is why I am so excited to start next season.

“The aim is to get in a matchday squad and then take it from there. I have been trying to get stronger, trying to be like these first team players, who are all big, strong guys.

“Then hopefully next year I will be on the bench, and hopefully get my debut.

“I am happy here – English football is probably the best football in the world right now, all the fans and everything is great.

“Now I am just giving it 100 per cent to try to get my place in the first team.

“Chris Hughton has told me to be patient, and that I will get the chance to show what I can do from the first day I am back.”

Harper, raised in Malaga, signed a two-year deal with Albion, with the option of a third year.

The 20-year-old arrived on the South Coast nursing knee bone bruising from his final appearance for Madrid’s youth team against Valencia.

Harper, speaking to the Scottish Herald, said: “The injury wasn’t a common one, a bruised bone with internal bleeding inside the knee.

“No-one really knew who long it was going to be. It could have been one, two months or it could have been a year out. So six months was quite a speedy recovery.

“It was a kind of weird injury that required a lot of patience, and I have not really been 100 per cent until about a couple of weeks ago.”