I’ll be more happy if Daichi was our Lallana replacement / alternative.
From what I’ve seen him he’s much better in that 10 role behind the striker - he’s good at finding space between the lines.
I’d have concerns about him playing the 8 role in the Prem - there’s better options available for...
Can’t see it happening - Lyon have a reputation for developing and selling for high fees. We would have bought him when he was with Caen if we were (they have an excellent youth academy).
I’ll be very happy if I was proved wrong.
There’s talk going round that we’re keeping a very close eye on him. His contract is up at the end of the season, and he’s not yet signed an extension. He wants game time.
Nice have also been linked.
Adringa in particular looks like he’s ready to make the step up. Gilmour also needs more game time.
There’s gaps in our squad at the moment. We need cover for Pervis, but if we did qualify for Europe we’ll need some Veltman style deals to be made to play alongside the youth.
Not the entire squad but FM published thus article that has a lot of useful info in:
https://www.footballmanager.com/the-byline/most-improved-players-fm23-main-data-update
And Dortmund. Napoli scouts have also been out to see him, so a lot of clubs keeping an eye.
He ticks a lot of the boxes for what we go for. Versatile, young and good on the ball.
Southampton are in the mix for him also.
He looks very raw in this video of him playing for Hertha’s youth team. Definitely one for the development pathway.
One report of him I saw called him a “Tik-tok superstar”.
It’s a difficult situation. Basically a deal and a fee had been agreed but because of the war situation that was ripped up and he joined them on loan for free. I am assuming Shaktar aren’t best pleased with that.
His contact with Fulham is up at the end of the season, his one with Shaktar is up...
There’s common knowledge that Boehly wants a collection of clubs and wants to copy the Red Bull model - albeit without selling the priced assets.
He’s been strongly linked with buying Strasbourg in the past week and there was talk of a Portuguese club also. If and when they have that Winstanley...
It’s not a Nike thing. It’s a Brighton thing.
Our deal has an exclusivity agreement in it which means only the club can sale merchandise. This was so the club would get the agreed yearly amount, plus an additional % that the retailer would normally take. It also meant others couldn’t sale at...
No. The Potter era is well and firmly over - he fully burnt his bridges with his comments about us post leaving.
We’ll also have a shirt list of candidates drawn up for when RDZ leaves, each would be a better option for us than Potter.