He is a long way off a team with top half PL ambitionsShirley we will not replace him but promote from within. I know Kardra is on loan but IMO is worth a place in next season’s squad
He is a long way off a team with top half PL ambitionsShirley we will not replace him but promote from within. I know Kardra is on loan but IMO is worth a place in next season’s squad
Agree - but he would no doubt be earning (minimum) twice as much.Which makes Trossard’s behaviour of trying to force a transfer to a Big 6 even more silly - he could be playing more minutes of Euro/Champions football ball with us for the last few years of his career than warming benches at the Big 6/7
Adringa much closer. Khadra needs at least the rest of the season (at Brum) a) starting and b) contributing, to be even close IMHO.He is a long way off a team with top half PL ambitions
We all know the top 6-7 are never going to allow a salary cap , it`s how they keep the rest of us below them , can you imagine us competing with them as we are currently ! . They already get the benefit of VAR ( Rashford in the Manc derby ) Welbeck opening day ( should of been a pen and 3-0 ) the ref that day was from Manchester .Well, it is probably technically true in a lot of cases - but nothing stopping clubs from speaking with the agencies, just the player directly (though surely that happens as well).
It is indeed the players market these days but for a 100 years it wasn't and that was equally bad. Slavelike conditions until 1963 and then absurd ones until 1995.
Player power won't decrease until there is some sort of salary cap which seems far away.
It may be best for all parties to meet in the middle for the next 2 weeks until a bid comes in. Brighton get a bit more money by showing the player hasn't become a useless asset to keep, and Trossard recovers his reputation a bit by resolving this nonsense.He was definitely in Lancing yesterday, saw him driving down Grinstead Lane.
All gone very quiet, which would suggest there may be some kind of agreement in place, one way or another.
Also true - just a case of whether he was talking boll*x when he said he did‘t want to sit on the bench - tbh though I think if he goes or stays he will be a rotational player from now anyway, given RDZs imperative to develop younger players and given the competition for start ups in the deep squads of the Big 6 - if money makes Tross’s World spin round so be it.Agree - but he would no doubt be earning (minimum) twice as much.
Showing here;Sky Sports have put a montage together to help drum up interest in him
If he doesn't go in this window, he'll go in the summer anyway - for less.For all the revisionism going on in this thread, he is a very decent Prem player. I'd rather everyone kissed and made up - he can still be a game changer for us.
If Potter actively encourages the signing of a player that - from first hand experience - he knows blows hot and cold and is prone to sulks and dark moods, then he's even more of a benny than was previously thoughtI'd be very surprised if he ended up at Chelsea. Would be a fitting signing for them though.
I'm with you if he can get past this come February 1st, keep this group together and see what we can achieveAm I one of the only ones to hope and pray he’s still an albion player when this window shuts?
Umm I hope rather than pray he's still with us providing he knuckles down and shows the commitment. If he doesn't want to play for us then sooner we are rid the better.Am I one of the only ones to hope and pray he’s still an albion player when this window shuts?