[Albion] Lewis Dunk to Chelsea? EDIT: New 5 Year Deal Signed

[blue-shifted]

I’m not so sure.

I think we have the luxury to take this to the last day of the transfer window as long as we don’t loan out Clarke.

I think we’re seeing the club holding out for a massive fee.

The problem is, how do we balance the books in the meantime, the club might well need to spend the £40m - £50m Dunk money prior to it hitting our bank accounts, if Chelsea go for another target, we’re going to be left hanging.

A) The club will never look at it like that. They want Lewis to stay

B) We will sell other players in this window

C) The club may not choose to buy big in the summer. The point of the academy is to reduce the need for this, year on year.

D) Even if you were right and we were overbudget by £50m until the next load of prem money at the end of the season ... borrowing is cheap and Tony's credit rating is good

 

[Guinness Boy]

Historically, some of our biggest signings have been keeping the players we don't want to let go.

 

[blockhseagull]

I’m not so sure.

I think we have the luxury to take this to the last day of the transfer window as long as we don’t loan out Clarke.

I think we’re seeing the club holding out for a massive fee.

The problem is, how do we balance the books in the meantime, the club might well need to spend the £40m - £50m Dunk money prior to it hitting our bank accounts, if Chelsea go for another target, we’re going to be left hanging.

So you are agreeing.

My point is such that we can’t spend £50m we don’t have ... we just aren’t that club.

So we have to wait until we know it’s secured before we can go out and spend ...... which if it’s at the end of the window we won’t see full benefit of..... because deals will need to be forced (which normally means overpaying in either fee or wages).

Position wise you are correct in that we could easily hold out till the end of the window because we are so well stocked in that position. But in regards to making the most of the fee and using it correctly and effectively we would need the business done in the next week or so I reckon.

 

[Sheebo]

Can we stop referring to her as a "girl" or even bring her sex into it. It makes us look pretty shit and there is enough to disagree with the badly done article without dragging us back to the seventies.

Yes - this.


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Why?! She is a girl. Don’t bring that PC bollocks into something that isn’t needed. Female = girl = women = lady = same thing.

 

[Eeyore]

Could we stop referring to the seventies as if it was a bad decade please. I quite enjoyed them as the world was a much safer place back then. Plus we had space hoppers, Mousetrap and fondue.

And Subbuteo

 

[chaileyjem]

Why?! She is a girl.

This isn't Brighton or the values of our club. We don't have a "girls" team and quite right too.
Regardless of the merits of the Argus and their stories in the last week, then its archaic and disrespectful stuff.

 

[GT49er]

Why?! She is a girl. Don’t bring that PC bollocks into something that isn’t needed. Female = girl = women = lady = same thing.

Not sure about that - some of 'em definitely ain't ladies!

 

[Sheebo]

**** me some want to hug a tree so tightly they’ll pick up on anything these days

Ok I retract girl - ‘shit young journalist female who clearly doesn’t understand sports journalism and thinks she can search the internet for stories which she wasn’t taught to do on her poncy journalist degree’. Far better

Anyway - The boy Owen is back now so should get some better stories.

 

[Bladders]

Why?! She is a girl. Don’t bring that PC bollocks into something that isn’t needed. Female = girl = women = lady = same thing.

Yeah SHEEBO you 70’s knuckledragger!

In fact you’re too good for the 70’s , you’re from the 50’s , still drinking your frothy coffee down the Lyceum !


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[Sheebo]

This isn't Brighton or the values of our club. We don't have a "girls" team and quite right too.
Regardless of the merits of the Argus and their stories in the last week, then its archaic and disrespectful stuff.

Erm we do have a girls team but whatever suits your agenda. Thanks for telling me the values of our club - glad you’re still the spokesman - or spokesboy / spokesgirl / spokesperson.

 

[Sheebo]

Yeah SHEEBO you 70’s knuckledragger!

In fact you’re too good for the 70’s , you’re from the 50’s , still drinking your frothy coffee down the Lyceum !


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Would love to see these people cope with a night down the pub with normal people I’m so offensive

 

[Bladders]

Would love to see these people cope with a night down the pub with normal people I’m so offensive

I’m always baffled that if you don’t tow the woke wet blanket line on here you’re either from the 50’s or 70’s

I’m always baffled why the 60’s gets off so lightly


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[sydney]

I’m always baffled that if you don’t tow the woke wet blanket line on here you’re either from the 50’s or 70’s

I’m always baffled why the 60’s gets off so lightly


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i thought "woke" meant something different..

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Why?! She is a girl. Don’t bring that PC bollocks into something that isn’t needed. Female = girl = women = lady = same thing.

Don't bother, now the boy's back we're getting better reporting.

And I should qualify Brian is a friend and I was a boy myself when we became friends as we went to school together.

 

[The Wizard]

EXCUSE ME, are you Neanderthals ASSUMING their GENDER?

*Summoned my inner Ernest there*

 

[Sheebo]

EXCUSE ME, are you Neanderthals ASSUMING their GENDER?

*Summoned my inner Ernest there*

Yep - she may not be a girl or a boy or a male or female she may be FLUID (don’t make a fluid joke about her sheebo don’t don’t don’t - not even a facial one they’ll get offended stop stop stop bite that tongue humour is dead stop)

 

[Jim D]

I’m always baffled that if you don’t tow the woke wet blanket line on here you’re either from the 50’s or 70’s

I’m always baffled why the 60’s gets off so lightly


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Isn't it that if you can remember the 60's you weren't there?

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Erm we do have a girls team but whatever suits your agenda. Thanks for telling me the values of our club - glad you’re still the spokesman - or spokesboy / spokesgirl / spokesperson.

I thought it was a women's team.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Don't bother, now the boy's back we're getting better reporting.

And I should qualify Brian is a friend and I was a boy myself when we became friends as we went to school together.

As he's your friend, could you ask him to stop putting the word 'admit' before every quote from a player (as in "Lewis admitted he enjoyed scoring the winning goal")? It was what finally tipped me over the edge when it came to reading the Argus.

 

[Questions]

I’m always baffled that if you don’t tow the woke wet blanket line on here you’re either from the 50’s or 70’s

I’m always baffled why the 60’s gets off so lightly


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