I don't expect us to finish above the clubs above. I'm just saying that De Zerbi will try and want to. It will probably never happen but why not have a goal rather than have the mentality that we'll never be able to compete with the big money clubs?
Despite what many on here think ( = that all transfer rumours in tabloids are 100% true), Chelsea won't be signing every single decent Brighton player and even less so in the January transfer window.
Posted on another thread that Man Utd are also sniffing around Sanchez apparently. So assuming there's a smidgen of truth in this, there's always a possibility that he might be.
Yeah. If Brighton are comfortable with selling their starting goalkeeper mid-season and Man Utd, Chelsea or some other team feel that De Gea/Kepa/whoever is too bad to be in goal for another 6 months and are 100% convinced Sanchez is better, then it could happen.
I'm just repeating what the UK's Mirror etc are saying this morning. "Chelsea are set to lock horns with Manchester United for the signing of Brighton star Robert Sanchez. Graham Potter and Erik ten Hag are both said to be in the market for a new goalkeeper in the January transfer window, with Edouard Mendy, Kepa Arrizabalaga and David de Gea believed to respectively be surplus to requirements".
No it wasn't likely that GP would leave at that point.
Not dismissing him at all - I would rather keep him and play him... I know its still early for Undav but he really has not looked to on the pace. I arrived late on Sunday so never saw the subs ... I would have played him as the sub for Wellbeck....
Football is all about the 'what might happen if / has happened because'' its not a science its a lottery ....
I’m convinced that Newcastle will be coming in very hard (with the Maddison money) for Tross in January. That’s £50m+.
Maybe in the Summer. Unless we can find a decent replacement in January - which is not totally impossible.
I guess it's all about how the club spends its money. We had signed Gilmour before Mwepu retired so there is a 'vacancy' not sure if the new 17 year old fills that or is development. If we want to upgrade on Gilmour we will need to pay £15-20million as a minimum unless we are lucky. So question is would that £20m be better spent elsewhere. If we buy a CB then surely that's sort of saying we don't think van hecke is good enough this season or maybe not good enough. Lot's of negative comments about Colwill but he certainly looks the part when he has played , maybe we have to do some deal with Chelsea even if it is with a buyback clause. Get him for 2 years and he does a job then mission achieved. As i said in a previous comment the spending power of top clubs means contracts are not a guarantee of retention(Cucurella) add the generally mercenary approach of players and coaches makes them even less binding.
I think he'll have known the deal with our policy on letting players/staff leave. in fact, he may well want the same courtesy extended to him one day, so it would probably be in his interest to go along with it. however were we to sell players and not replace them with established talent, he may be a little less understanding than potter would've been
Undoubtedly there were discussions around the Strategic operation of the club, and you're right that RDZ will have ambitions outside of the Albion. Nevertheless, DeZerbi is now in the building. Like Potter, his reputation can grow in Sussex. But he appears (on the outside) to run hotter than any manger since Poyet. Even with limited, but improving, English he's talking this club up. He'll know that Brighton will accept correct approaches for any of their talent, but he'll also understand that deals will only proceed if valuations are met and, crucially, it's right for the club. The 'right for the club' bit is where intuitively it feels like RDZ will be more strident. And a more strident voice at the heart of the decision making, gives the club another parameter when balancing what's right when accepting or rejecting approaches
