um bongo molongo
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Proposed £21.4 million bid for a porridge league striker, has the world gone mad
Was the £75M Liverpool paid for a porridge league centre back, or £20M Lyon paid for a porridge league striker also mad?
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[Albion] Odsonne Édouard
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Was the £75M Liverpool paid for a porridge league centre back, or £20M Lyon paid for a porridge league striker also mad?
AmexRuislip
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Frankworthington
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I wouldn't know, just my opinion
you obviously do not realise Edouard is the messiah,the chosen one
Fortunately he is not coming!!
AmexRuislip
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I'm a bit out of touch with all things messiah'ish, when it comes to scotch footy.
At no point did Leeds or Villa look like finishing behind us as they had done in our final season in the Championship. Wolves, a side we also beat regularly in the Championship also finished comfortably above us and never looked like finishing below us despite a very poor season by their own standards that saw their coach leave (yes, I know about "the" injury but we missed Lamptey for most of the season). And let's not forget yet another season behind our local rivals.
ferring seagull
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I do hope you are correct as the fee being suggested was ridiculous given his apparent ability and reluctance on his part to give his all for the club paying his wages !
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We signed Moder, Veltman, Khadra, Welbeck, Karbownik and Lallana.
(And a new contract for Ben White).
That window ? Yep ?
Frankworthington
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Totally agree
£20 m for a player in the last year of his contract and going through the motions.
Fortunately the people running our club and financing it have more sense!!
Any time anyone mentions how Brighton developing as a club and team you go for the "but its just the results that matters" reasoning, why is it suddenly interesting what they did years back in "the final season in the Championship" or "beat regularly in the Championship?". Different clubs got different strategies and some could give you quick results and more worries while other strategies might give slower results but better stability. Leeds and Brighton got similar approaches. Wolves are playing a very dangerous game, I could see plenty of ways their Chinese-Portuguese thingy could go very wrong. Aston Villa got a very fat wallet, good on them. As for Palace I think its forgettable but you do as you please.
Bladders
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That’s how stupid your post is
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In the context of the two posts I was replying to I was just pointing out we were far more in a relegation scrap than sides who were nowhere near as good as us a few seasons ago. It's a fact.
Not Andy Naylor
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And yet we ended up in a better position than clubs who regularly used to finish above us, such as Hull, West Brom, Middlesbrough, Stoke, Plucky and Burnley.
FWIW current odds the result of betting cashflows.
ShandyH
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Buying a striker is going to be very tough. We’ve been gazumped twice; by Benfica and Fiorentina. They’re both clubs with huge pedigree and both in beautiful parts of the world. We’re close though which is astonishing.
Post COVID, spending £20m to £25m is a huge amount of money to spend. So we have to get this right.
We have some of the best data available so I will be happy with our choices regardless of what they look like.
We are all incredibly naive amateurs in all of this. We will continue to build, show interest in the same small pool of players, improve, play better football, win more, climb the table.
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Post COVID, spending £20m to £25m is a huge amount of money to spend. So we have to get this right.
We have some of the best data available so I will be happy with our choices regardless of what they look like.
We are all incredibly naive amateurs in all of this. We will continue to build, show interest in the same small pool of players, improve, play better football, win more, climb the table.
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saafend_seagull
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Is Brian Owen itk these days?
He reckons we’ve not been interested at all.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/19466257.brighton-still-not-interested-odsonne-edouard/
He reckons we’ve not been interested at all.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/19466257.brighton-still-not-interested-odsonne-edouard/
However, circling back to the point, we were always going to finish above all but two of those even if we'd scored no goals at all.
The pure fact is that with better decision making and cooler heads from almost the whole team we'd have been fighting Leeds and Villa for 10th. And, as much as Maupay and Andone are a nuisance to face, neither of them says "cool" or "decision making".
Every single signing we make this summer with the exception of goalkeepers or genuine U23s has to be capable of sticking the ball away under pressure. We won't get a 20 goal a season striker because we won't get Kane or Salah but, as a group, we need to be able to make up for not having one. Failure to do so will have us, once again, fighting to not join Plucky and Stoke.
brighton_tom
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Argus headline today.... 'Brighton are STILL not interested in Odsonne Edouard'