[Albion] Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall **Singed for Chelsea 02/07/2024**

[Hometownglory]

Winstanley and Todd really are a pair of twats. They are simply obsessed trying to hijack our deals etc. Shouldn't they be buying in a different shop to us, you know, being a hugggggee club and that.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

What's Pritchard up to these days?

moving to Turkey from Brum it looks like

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

How angry would you be if you were a director at Leicester, if Chelsea now don’t complete the deal before the deadline.
Basically Chelsea entering the fray and then rejecting the deal would have scuppered the only chance of Leicester meeting the PSR threshold.
Points deduction incoming, and their player of the season last season staying when fans know the player wanted to leave to go to Chelsea, a transfer kitty suddenly depleted.
It’s the type of shit storm that only Chelsea can create.
We can now turn our attention to Minteh, Malick Y, Gomez and Wieffer, getting the Minteh deal done for a steal this weekend.

And would you really rule out Chelsea now deciding they fancy any of those? I wouldn’t - they really are the most detestable club!

 

[Insel affe]

It seems that Boehly and Winstanley's entire policy is simply to buy whoever they think Brighton are about to buy.

it’s such a shame they did not have that strategy when we signed Locadia

 

[maltaseagull]

Who sets the market rate? Americans, Abu Dhabi, Saudis?

I always thought it was the market that set it.

 

[Guinness Boy]

think all the posts saying ‘KDH can do one, he’ll regret going to chelsea and we can do better anyway’ are quite juvenile/bitter

fact is we could very well end up with another kudus situation, where we miss out on the player, the play actually goes on to do quite well at the bigger club, enjoys their higher wage , and we don’t sign whatever plan B option we had, and end up with another massive hole in the squad.

there’s no ‘it is what it is’ element about this. it’s very bad news that this has happened yet again (albeit in a slightly different fashion)

Agreed. The irony is that it’s the teams in profitability trouble doing all the deals at the moment via this swap dodge, while we’ve got headroom but no ability to close a deal.

If people think losing all our senior recruiters to Chelsea hasn’t made a difference they need to give their heads a wobble.

Not long till pre season and it looks like the squad is totally unsuited to FH’s style of football.

 

[bhafc99]

Apparently Chelsea have got their man. KDH to Stamford Bridge for £33m. Deal involves him then being sold straight on to Aston Villa the next day for £50m, then back to Chelsea for £50.1M a week later, then back to Leicester for £33.1M by 12 July.

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

Chelsea's subs bench.

 

[Justice]

Agreed. The irony is that it’s the teams in profitability trouble doing all the deals at the moment via this swap dodge, while we’ve got headroom but no ability to close a deal.

If people think losing all our senior recruiters to Chelsea hasn’t made a difference they need to give their heads a wobble.

Not long till pre season and it looks like the squad is totally unsuited to FH’s style of football.

I agree to an extent, if I employ people to get deals done and they aren’t getting done then what’s the point of them.
KDH I’ve put two and two together and after reading Bozza’s take I can only assume RDZ helped his mate out in January and blew up the deal.

How is Fulham’s ex Academy manager now our recruitment specialist doesn’t make any sense.
The days of Ashworth & co seem a long time ago and it appears we have gone backwards. In that department.
Labelling every player a greedy dickhead when the deal collapses is an easy out for the club can do no wrong brigade.

The squad needs a lot of work the back end of last season is a glimpse of what life will be like if we don’t, relegation form.

 

[rebel51]

Sadly, Sussex-born-and-bred lads aside, there won't be too many young footballers out there who are dreaming of Brighton & Hove Albion being the pinnacle of their burgeoning footballing career.

To most, we're a gateway to the Premier League and the increased exposure that brings, enabling them to put themselves in the shop window for a subsequent move to a "big club".

TL;DR - not many footballers will truly "want to be here".

That is it in a nutshell.

 

[Change at Barnham]

With a war chest of money any one of us could sign players, even some probably that would turn out to be good players.
However, that wouldn't necessarily leave us in a good financial position in the long term.

We all know Tony Bloom works with a long term strategy, looking for value and signing players on terms that are beneficial to our club.
That's probably why Kudus never signed and why RDZ is no longer with us.

I trust TB more than anyone else to do what's best for our medium size club, with its medium size support trying to compete head to head with clubs far bigger than we'll ever be.

He hasn't made many major mistakes so far.
Some small ones yes, but less than most would have.

Keep the faith.

 

[rebel51]

Not many players like Steve
bull left loving the badge of their beloved, no soul left in football just ego.

 

[Hometownglory]

I agree to an extent, if I employ people to get deals done and they aren’t getting done then what’s the point of them.
KDH I’ve put two and two together and after reading Bozza’s take I can only assume RDZ helped his mate out in January and blew up the deal.

How is Fulham’s ex Academy manager now our recruitment specialist doesn’t make any sense.
The days of Ashworth & co seem a long time ago and it appears we have gone backwards. In that department.
Labelling every player a greedy dickhead when the deal collapses is an easy out for the club can do no wrong brigade.

The squad needs a lot of work the back end of last season is a glimpse of what life will be like if we don’t, relegation form.

Our great succession plan in action.

 

[Justice]

Winstanley and Todd really are a pair of twats. They are simply obsessed trying to hijack our deals etc. Shouldn't they be buying in a different shop to us, you know, being a hugggggee club and that.

Todd probably pays some lucky chap £1m a year to monitor #BHAFC on X. Or is that Winstanleys actual role

 

[Doonhamer7]

Not sure I get the issue, it’s not as if KDH was on any supporters must have list at any club. I’d rather have Emile Smith-Rowe anyway

 

[Justice]

Not sure I get the issue, it’s not as if KDH was on any supporters must have list at any club. I’d rather have Emile Smith-Rowe anyway

He must of been on the top of the Albions wish list if we went in twice for him.

 

[zefarelly]

"a key plank of" is superfluous in that sentence. It seems that Boehly and Winstanley's entire policy is simply to buy whoever they think Brighton are about to buy.

This, It appears their policy is to hijack everyone elses, but mostly BHA's transfers and plans . . .if that means having to spaff a few hundred million quid on players they don't want/need, and employ the planets finest 'creative accountants' and keep FFP bods in luxury holidays, then so be it.

a strange way to compete at football . . .clearly too many frogs in Boehlys box and he has to think outside it.

 

[Hometownglory]

Everything takes soooo long with Albion. Even Palace manage to get their deals over the line quicker than us.

 

[Jim in the West]

We’re staying with some Leicester fans for the weekend. The one club they really hate (more than Forest, it seems) is Chelsea.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Shame this deal got out in the open, which is pretty unusual for us as we seem to be able to deal under the radar. With so many comings and goings on the admin side it does make you wonder how they are going to keep control of private information and processes.