Neville's Breakfast
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Ben is NOT FOR SALE. There is no 50m price tag.
Now **** off back to the leeds forums and stop peddling your gutter press rumours on here.
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[Football] Ben White - Sings new FOUR year deal.
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Ben is NOT FOR SALE. There is no 50m price tag.
Now **** off back to the leeds forums and stop peddling your gutter press rumours on here.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Brighton have not mentioned any price tag.
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Ha. Oh dear me. We stuck a laughable £50m on the player that ALL of your support and your players recognise as being the single biggest contributor to the end of your 16 year wait for PL football. You bid £20m for a player we rated at £30m and you’re now bleating that we should be MADE to sell him to you for your proposed £22m “improved” bid.
He’s now £50m BECAUSE of you and your ridiculous showboating, hashtagging and shit stirring.
He’s our player. It’s up to us how much we sell him for or whether we deter smaller teams like Leeds with a price beyond your finances.
Why don’t you develop your own talent and get your filthy mitts off our players?
- Nov 11, 2009
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We don't "concentrate on hovering a point or so above relegation", Our owner who has spunked nearly half a billion of his money to build what we have and get the squad/academy to this level, has made it his stated aim of finishing consistently in the top ten. We did ok the first season for a newly promoted club with a lot of championship + new, cheaper purchase option players........ the season after, our second (and Hughtons last) we went backwards and yes we just survived. Our owner fired Hughton for 3 reasons, we were playing dull defensive football, He was going backwards and he wasn't giving a path to the academy players, none of whom were being picked. Thus why Potter, who plays attacking football, is renowned at developing and giving opportunities to academy players was brought in on the recommendation of Dan Ashworth (former director of Elite performance at the FA and now our director of football - equiv to Orta).
It was Potters first season at this level and he inherited Hughtons low in morale squad with a good few recruitment flops (like your Augustin) who were in the 15-20 million range, but simply not good enough.
The playing style change Potter has implemented, has been a total sea change, the youngsters are being developed and are getting their chance, all of this is falls into the owners stated ambition.
Finishing 15th on 41 points, considering the season before was an improvement, And Brighton fans are far more realistic about the challenges of the league and recruitment.
You really think you're going to get every transfer right, waltz into the PL, Bamford + some guy from the Swiss league will bag a load and you'll be comfortably top half,just because Bielsa is sitting on a bucket? You'd do well to finish out of the bottom 3 in the first year and build from there, but in this magical world you live in you think Leeds are some big player or major name waiting to slot back into the top 10, when the reality is you are neither. You will live or die by your first team performance and your recruitment and nothing else can or will save you.
blue-shifted
Banned
No but I think there is a point that the Premier League has been more insulated from the financial shock of not being able to have matchday income than other leagues due to the TV money, so I can see decent players from decent foreign leagues looking at the Premier League as a financial safe haven and foreign clubs using player sales to ride out the storm.
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Eh? Your season doesn’t rely on Leeds signing a player that is universally recognised as the best player at Leeds last term?
Oh, that’s good then. We can stop all this feckwittery with.hundreds of posts on NSC, WACCOE and Twitter from lovelorn Leeds fans begging White to stage a dirty protest in Blooms office until he agrees to sell.
At last your fans seem to be realising that Ben White will not be signing for you. I imagine you’re about to start posting that you didn’t want him in the first place.
British Bulldog
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- Feb 6, 2006
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Every season is always going to be stronger than the last in the Premier League according to fans, it rarely works out that way in reality though. Out of 3 teams coming up you normally get one that does well, the other Two struggle and other teams struggle who are already up there?
OK mate, I’d say your lot are more likely to be ‘out of touch’ with your recent history in the lower leagues
Thank you. Our long-term investment in the youth system is coming together nicely now, (these things do take time – y’know, like the 6 years or so Ben White has been with us), so with that in addition to becoming established in the premier league and the evolution of our squad, we are now aiming a little higher (mid-table & a potential push for top 10 for now)
With that clock ticking, you really do need to worry about your transfers. That money for coming up doesn’t go far when other clubs know you have it and are getting desperate to improve a championship squad.
Good for which party? It’s below Brighton’s valuation and that’s all that matters (he’s NOT FOR SALE, so only a ridiculous offer will secure him).
There has been no price tag slapped on him by the club by the way – that’s just speculation because he’s NOT FOR SALE
Good – HE’S NOT FOR SALE
I don’t think I’m alone in being grateful that you’re not the person making the decision.
How come you see ‘spat his dummy out’ rather than simply turning down offers for a player who is NOT FOR SALE? If I offer you £500 for your car and you say no, have you spat your dummy?
He really is. He’s a very successful businessman and lifelong fan. You should read up on what he’s done for the club and the foundations that he has laid for the future, rather than spunking money on unsustainable transfers and wages for a flash-in-the-pan exciting couple of seasons.
If you took the time to find out about our club and how well run it is, you’d understand why Radrizzani looks to the Brighton model as one to emulate
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
I suppose 7 weeks until Transfer Deadline Day could just about be described as *weeks and weeks* but if I were a Leeds fan I'd be looking to break the back of the transfer requirements very soon.
Best crack on !
Northchatty is another troll - time to stop feeding these idiots.
Neville's Breakfast
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Time for an away fan sub forum. It can be a place for these saddos to congregate away from normal people.
Less than 4 weeks till the first game............you lot need to get a wiggle on if you're not going to start the season with a squad that's worse than the one you won a poor championship with. And yes, it's a calculated gamble on our part not to sell him too - he may not make the step up and we'll be left to offload him to a lower league club. However, he might make the step up and be worth double in a year or two....who knows. Our player development people obviously have a view on that, and as for gambling, I hear our Chairman isn't afraid to take a calculated punt now and again.
Seasider78
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- Nov 14, 2004
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Would also add the incredibly short turnaround is going to disadvantage the promoted teams.
The thing with this weak argument that we gambled by turning down £20m, is that it suggests we risk 'losing' (all of) that figure, if White doesn't cope effortlessly with the rigours of the premier league. It suggests that the valuation is all based on potential, and could evaporate.
Thing is - that's patently bollocks. The spread of White's value is not £0 to £60m+. Just by what he has ALREADY PROVEN he can do at the top end of the Championship, he is already worth a guaranteed £15m or so, to an ambitious Championship club. The spread is £15m to £60m+
By turning down the Leeds bid, we are 'risking' no more than £5m, and stand to gain up to ten times that. Those are not odds that are going to tempt Tony Bloom*
*or anybody with a brain, frankly.
FatSuperman
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FatSuperman
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Waccoe would disagree...
5. "But it's the Premier League, boo-hoo, all the other players are just sooooo good…"
As I've said before, I really don't believe it's all that and it's certainly nowt to be feared. "But we'll get less chances and need to be far more clinical and others are more likely to take all of theirs." For what it's worth, we'll need to be more clinical anyway, but I anticipate we'll create just as many chances, if not more, and by dominating the ball still end up ceding relatively few. As a quick reminder, against Arsenal in spite of that tougher second half, we maintained 59% total possession, created 18 shots with 6 on target (above our average Championship return), and despite our back 5 containing 3 back-ups (Meslier, Douglas, Berardi) we managed to concede just the 1 scrappy goal. Grow a bloody backbone, believe in this team, and don't believe the PL hype!
What an idiot you are. Spat his dummy out ffs.
He can afford to tell your little team to **** off, he has done, why don't you?
Russconha
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I stay away from conversation in general on this forum cos I'm a bloody wind up merchant and don't wanna be arguing with fellow Seagulls. However, I've just joined the Leeds forum 
- Nov 11, 2009
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This should get the juices flowing, not bad this Ben White fella is he!
https://twitter.com/Super6/status/1295365510452908032
https://twitter.com/Super6/status/1295365510452908032
Finchley Seagull
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He's right though. Anyone who turns down a transfer offer from the mighty Leeds has spat their dummy out and been really mean. Or at least that is how the more pathetic element of their fanbase see it (I assume there must be some who understand that this is how the transfer market works).