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Lewis Dunk. He's a better footballer than Lawro ever was. Maybe not relative to the other players of their eras, but in the absolute, Dunk is better.

There's an adage that the best time to strengthen from a position of strength. Having just finished 9th, we've never been stronger in our history. So is this the summer for major investment in our squad? Ever since Potter arrived we've been essentially a development club, bringing in young...

Well that second part is very welcome indeed. The Bloom‐Barber axis is the key that keeps us on track.

No. There may be a time, but the midst of celebrating her majesty's platinum jubilee certainly isn't it. When the Queen dies she'll be replaced by King Charles III, or more probably King George VII, and he'll continue the traditions that, in practice, work very well. I don't think anyone...

There's a couple of sage heads on the Villa forum saying they'd rather have Caicedo and Mwepu. Whatever happens, we're not going to suddenly have a huge Bissouma shaped hole in our team

Rather have Trossard

"Marc, Manchester City have made a generous offer for you and we've accepted it. Pep Guardiola wants to talk to you about becoming his first choice left back as they look to retain the Premier league title and win their first Champions League trophy" "Nah, you're OK, I like the sea air in...

I think they know he isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so want to keep the turmoil going on as long as possible. A divided Tory party certainly won't win the next election. They also did a great job at damaging Sunak, which just goes on today with him turning into a chancellor whacking taxes...

I never got an email asking me to vote, for whatever reason, but can I ask those here that got into the advisory board, how they propose to canvas views of the people they are representing, ie I'm a Member with certain concerns I'd like raised relative to how Members are treated.

I'm still thinking the same with Bissouma, that he wants to go to a European club and they won't be paying 40m for him, so he runs it down. Hence the persistent Villa rumours, we'd like to sell him if possible to get a return for him.

I think Bloom is pretty reasonable, and as with White last year, if the price tag is met they can go, and the price tag isn't ludicrous. Difference with Stephens, Bridcutt etc is that the price tag presumably wasn't met then, but now the only clubs above us in the league (the only ones worth...

He's such a good player, on his way to the top. He plays with so much maturity, hard to believe he's almost a year younger than Ben White. If we can get one more season out of him it would be amazing. But this link to City does make sense and they could go hard for him, will surely cost as...

Finished above Spurs once in the Southern League back in the mists of time

Thank you, it took 32 posts for someone to get excited about the return of Aaron Connolly :) Totally seriously, I still think he will become a star one day

Brighton and Hove Albion men's team, 16th in League 1 (third tier) when he took over in 2009, now 9th in Premier League. Brighton and Hove Albion women's team, 10th in National League Southern division (third tier) when he took over in 2009, now 7th in Women's super league. Union St...

The crazy thing is that things can get better, and we can believe that because of the incremental improvements we are always making that are keeping us in the upward path. We may not finish as high as 9th next season, but equally we know this isn't a flash in the pan, one and done high finish...

Cucurella getting more rave reviews. More I think about it the more annoyed I get that he isn't on the short list for Premier League young player of the season.

Not sure I could feel much more content with being a brighton fan right now

On the other hand our fantastic uptick in form came when Cucurella went to left of a three and Trossard played wider, which may not have happened if Burn had stayed. Of course it also coincided with Caicedo's arrival alongside Bissouma in Central midfield, giving us way more energy in there...

Indeed. Nicholas Gonzalez was the other European name we apparently couldn't convince to come last summe, although 8 goals in 39 games wasn't the best return for Fiorentina.