I mean when he signed with Leeds, he surely expected to go from there to a big club. Brighton isn't exactly that. If Leeds are able to convince him that next year bigger fish are likely to be in for him, maybe he'll take the guaranteed star role in Leeds over the difficult competition in Brighton.
Ah ok must have missed some things, focused too much on the violent headmaster.
It’s very possible the release clause included performance related bonuses and/or a sell on clause which we very possibly have “bought out”. This isn’t uncommon in the complicated world of transfer negotiations
no reason whatsoever
The tweet puts the price in Euros.
We haven’t added anything. the tweet say 50m EUROS.
Triggering the clause, negotiating the contract, doing the medical... it does take time, if you have time to do things properly. And there's no rush really, with the bid made just two days ago he was never going to play against Everton anyway.
After we triggered the release clause, reports were stating that he could have his medical in the next 48hrs. I did think that was a little odd. Why not the next 24hrs?
Fab did mention in the post match comments that we were far more open than he liked, especially in the first 20 minutes. And if we’d have gone a goal down - as we possibly should’ve - it would’ve been a very different game.
Do our fans tend to drink as many as 3 pre-match pints at away matches? I've never seen it tbh!
Obviously it's always good to win any game, but l wouldn't read very much at all into what was, to all intensive purrposes, little more than a training exercise, and a chance to show off our skills, in a friendly match with Villareal.
