Bring back Bryan wade!!
I wanna caravan for me ma
Are we expecting any further incomings or outgoings?
Reckon Burn to Newcastle will happen. Just too fantastic an opportunity for the player, for him not to try to push it through.
Confirmation of the young Paraguayan lad (Enciso).
Maybe an U23 or two out on a Championship / SPL loan.
Reckon that will be it.
Burn going looks to make sense for all parties involved if we can get a reasonable fee off the Saudis.
I can see its making sense for Newcastle (CB upgrade) and for Burn (financially and emotionally only, not professionally) but I'm not convinced it makes huge sense for Brighton, especially given the form he's been in recently. Unless we absolutely rinse them, of course.
I would guess Enciso in (100%) presumably to be loaned out as I dont see how he gets a work permit. BDB out (75%), doubtful if he will be replaced but could mean that Roberts stay in the squad or, if possible, JPvH or Clarke gets recalled.
Slim chance (5% maybe?) of Bissouma leaving if the club gets a deal it can not say no to and/or a striker (10%?) arriving.
I can see its making sense for Newcastle (CB upgrade) and for Burn (financially and emotionally only, not professionally) but I'm not convinced it makes huge sense for Brighton, especially given the form he's been in recently. Unless we absolutely rinse them, of course.
In terms of the work permit, I imagine he may have a chance as he's an international and played in the Copa Libertadores.
Lets see... he played 397 out of 1080 minutes in Copa Sudamericana. That is 36% if I remember how to calculate percents. This means... 0 points as it is a band 2 competition. He also played too little in Copa Libertadores. So 0 minutes from playing time in those competitions.
However, his club went to the semi finals in the Copa Sudamericana and he was in the matchday squads, so thats 6 points. Unfortunately they failed to go to the Copa Libertadores group stages so 0 points from that. Their quarter-finals in the same tournament in 2020 wont count because it is not within the 12 month limit.
All in all 6 points from the SA continental competitions.
Moving over to domestic competitions. The Paraguayan league is unfortunately a band 6 league. This is where I cant be bothered to do the exact maths and I also dont know if Clausura and Apertura counts as different competitions and doubles the point. Assuming not, he probably just goes over the 80% game time limit and gets 1 point from this, but it could be as much as 3.
Libertad won the Apertura season ending in December, meaning as a club from a band 6 club he Enciso gets another 1 point.
Furthermore he also gets another 2 points for playing in a band 6 club at all.
TLDR: So if I'm counting correctly, and he gets no additional points for being part of Paraguys Copa America squad (it seems not but I could be wrong), he gets between 10-12 points out of the necessary 15. No work permit.
In order to get his work permit, it is unlikely that he could stay in Paraguay. He would need to be loaned out to a decent league and get decent amount of game time.
I made some math on it in another thread:
In addition, his 3 appearances for 43rd ranked Paraguay gives him exactly 0 points.
Yes, Encisco being reported as a done deal.
Burn going looks to make sense for all parties involved if we can get a reasonable fee off the Saudis.
Could be something else that comes out of left field too as we know the club like to keep a close hand.
You’re the first one I’ve seen matey congrats