It could also indicate that people on twitter know that Brighton and Chelsea fans will lap this sort of thing up all summer long.
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[Albion] Levi Colwill
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nwgull
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We have gone a bit Leeds over Colwill. However, unlike Leeds, we'll have had a contingency list of left-side centre backs put together since the January window closed - none of whom any of us had heard of.I hope we don't have to go to our 2nd on the list, look what happened last summer with Cucur.... Oh, as you were
Romano's English isn't great. Rather than insist, he probably means something like "continue to push for."
Given also that Chelsea (owned by Clearlake, who have heavy investment from Saudi backers) and currently negotiating to sell at least SIX of their problematic wage earners (Koulibaly, Kante, Aubameyang, Lukaku, Ziyech and potentially Mendy) to Saudi backed clubs for insane fees and wages, it's not going to be a huge surprise if the urgency of their money issues starts to decline somewhat.
[Legal disclaimer: State-backed Saudi clubs, Saudi investment in Chelsea and the Saudi PIF are not linked in any way, and as a result any linkages can be considered purely coincidental and should be ignored immediately]
As a result of that, the slim chance of us getting Colwill will take an even further blow if the pressure to raise capital mysteriously goes away. As I've said before, we need to stop being so "Leeds" about Colwill. If he comes, he comes but, as things stand, he's no longer a Brighton player and becomes one of several irons we have in the fire.
[Legal disclaimer: State-backed Saudi clubs, Saudi investment in Chelsea and the Saudi PIF are not linked in any way, and as a result any linkages can be considered purely coincidental and should be ignored immediately]
As a result of that, the slim chance of us getting Colwill will take an even further blow if the pressure to raise capital mysteriously goes away. As I've said before, we need to stop being so "Leeds" about Colwill. If he comes, he comes but, as things stand, he's no longer a Brighton player and becomes one of several irons we have in the fire.
blockhseagull
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Not sure we are as insistent as he says, I’m sure we want Colwill but we never pay over the odds.
Personally I think this is just part of the bargaining over Caicedo and a bit of a smoke screen while we continue to work on other CB targets. We rarely focus on one at a time and would expect we are working on the others while the press make noise about this one.
Personally I think this is just part of the bargaining over Caicedo and a bit of a smoke screen while we continue to work on other CB targets. We rarely focus on one at a time and would expect we are working on the others while the press make noise about this one.
- Jun 27, 2012
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Colwill wants to play first team football. Albion offered Ben White first team football and was near enough an ever present in his season with us. (but so did Leeds)
Difference here is Albion pretty much will offer Colwill a lot of starts next season in the Premier League - if he rebuffs a new contract - and in Europe too. Chelsea won't do the former and can't do the latter.
Weststander
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not really. At 20, Saka had two Arsenal seasons under his belt and had played for England in the final of a major competition. At 20 Trent AA had a full season starting for Liverpool, and had played in the final of the Champions League.
Colwill hasn’t ever played a game for Chelsea
I'm thinking of this in the career to date whole and Chelsea's thinking. They didn't sell him in summer 2022 and know thanks to us that's he the real PL deal.
No way are they selling him.
Weststander
Well-known member
Chelsea may well have CL football from August 2024 onwards. Highly unlikely he'll get that here.
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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Has he SINGED yet?
By selling half the squad to a Saudi club, owned by investors in Chelsea it seems.I’ve given up on us getting Levi. It’s just too humiliating for Chelsea to let him go. They’ll find their FFP money in June another way.
So so
Did at Spurs, to a point didn't at PSG
He's not going to last by playing younger players over expensive purchases
John Byrnes Mullet
Global Circumnavigator
If this is true then surely that's not right and needs investigating by the Football Association.
Why ? It’s not as bad / conflicted as Bloom directly owning 1 club with influence and another without influence, of course.
It’s a bit of nonsense in my opinion. Saudis are buying all sorts of over inflated players at the moment, let them get on with it
As far as I'm aware, we aren't selling any over-30, high earning players to USG for massively inflated wages to avoid FFP punishments are we? I'm not sure loaning Adingra to USG is in the same ball-park
- Jun 27, 2012
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Chelsea can offer 2x or 3x wages - and are reportedly planning a new contract - and probably more elite level football after the hiccup of next season. Of course. And they don't want to lose him given his age and potential and that left sided defenders are rare.
But he wants to secure an England place, wants regular game time, and likes RDZ and his Albion teammates. But you/others right - it would be a surprise if Albion land him but we've a lot to offer and its still in play.
Taybha
Whalewhine
Chelsea's negotiating supreme leader trying to add up if 90 million for Caciedo plus Colwill and the CMS impersonator is actually a better deal than 120 Millon Bloom wants for Caciedo.
Possibly, but Fabricato is a colossal tart for agents so I suspect he has a sauce
Brian Fantana
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TB being good friends with Todd Boehly is probably a factor to consider in all of this too.
dejavuatbtn
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The problem with letting them get on with it is that they appear to have an endless supply of money that is impacting on transfer fees and wages worldwid. They seem to have started the long haul in getting their league filled with top quality players to compete with, and then overtake, the EPL. I have no idea how they are going to stop it as they already have FIFA in their pockets.