Alan Navarro is 99% sure he will be back for pre-season with Albion next month.

The out–of-contract midfielder was not offered a new deal at the end of an injury-wrecked 2010-11 campaign.

Boss Gus Poyet invited him back for pre-season training if he was not fixed up anywhere else when they report back on June 27.

Navarro is open to offers but says he has not been actively hunting a new employer.

He revealed last night: “I’ve got it in my mind I’m coming back for pre-season with Brighton.

“I want to prove myself again and hopefully win another contract.

“I’ll listen to people but it would have to be a really good offer to tempt me away.

“I was disappointed with what the gaffer was saying at contract time but I can understand his reasons.”

Navarro spent most of the season battling back from a ruptured cruciate ligament suffered in the first week of the campaign.

He was on the pitch as a sub when Albion clinched the title at Walsall, then had 90 minutes at Colchester on Easter Monday, he admitted he did not feel part of the team’s success.

He added: “It was difficult to even get on the bench when I was fit again.

“I just thought at the end of the season, because I had been out, I didn’t feel part of it, even though I was back in the squad.

“It felt like the success wasn’t down to me at all.

“Everyone was trying to make me feel part of it but I didn’t.

“Maybe the gaffer sensed that and it played a part in his decision.”

Navarro, who gets married to fiancée Natalie next month, joined the Seagulls two years as a free agent but stresses the situation is different this time.

He said: “I had a contract pulled off the table back then after we lost in the play-offs.

“I had told every club 'I'm signing for MK Dons again’ but then that was gone.

“Pre-season was starting and I had no club until Russell (Slade) gave me the chance at Brighton. He offered me training which is what I needed.

“This is a bit different because I’ve got more time to decide what I want to do but I’m 99% sure I’m coming back for pre-season.”

Navarro says he is in good physical shape but needs game time.

He added: “I went to the victory parade the day after the last game of the season and I’ve been going in to work four or five times a week since then, as well as running at home.

“I’ve been doing something every day.

“My fitness is fine, my fat levels are fine, my weight is fine. Everything is what it should be but I just need games.”