[Albion] Levi Colwill

[Weststander]

I hope it wasn't because I want top four next season and if that's at the expense of Liverpool so be it, and I wouldn't want him to go there and miss out

Highly likely 5 English clubs are in the CL from 2024/25 due to changes by UEFA.

 

[Sheebo]

Hope he is on twitter regularly…..

The last one calling him a ‘nigga’ needs reporting.

 

[Littlemo]

Ahhh that might explain this tweet then

 

[Hiheidi]

 

[Littlemo]

How to hand in a transfer request without handing in a transfer request. That tweet did make me laugh but thats some bridge burning he is doing there

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Came off Twitter four years ago and looking through the responses to those tweets, it’s good to see I’m still not missing much. It really is a cesspit of humanity.

Anyway, I hadn’t thought about the Gilmour factor being another reason Colwill might want to stay but clearly they are close. Would be fantastic if we could keep hold of him.

 

[jcdenton08]

Looks like he’s off in the summer. Would absolutely love him here. Massive future ahead of him.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Ahhh that might explain this tweet then

I'm sure I'm being incredibly dense...but I don't get it.

 

[shibainu]

Chelsea supporters seem to be really really upset by Colwill's interview and his tweet. As a Japanese I don't get all those "you can't do this to your parent club" thing. Is a player from your academy that special? Also he's just celebrating our EL qualification not their loss. And he's just a 20 yo lad. Hard to understand why they have to post all those toxic comments to him directly.

 

[bhafc99]

I'm sure I'm being incredibly dense...but I don't get it.

Me neither…

 

[JetsetJimbo]

Chelsea supporters seem to be really really upset by Colwill's interview and his tweet. As a Japanese I don't get all those "you can't do this to your parent club" thing. Is a player from your academy that special? Also he's just celebrating our EL qualification not their loss. And he's just a 20 yo lad. Hard to understand why they have to post all those toxic comments to him directly.

There is a tendency for football fans to think the players their club has developed owe something to the club and, by extension, the fans. We all do it tbh, even though thinking about it for a while reveals the situation to be a bit more complicated than that. You can see it in our fans' reaction to the Sanchez situation - while his behaviour and Colwill's aren't remotely comparable, the fan reactions to both are coming from the same place, a sense of "you're one of our boys, how could you do this to us".

Football fans are an emotional bunch. I'm speculating a lot here, but I think a part of it is that, as a fan, playing for your club is one of the greatest honours you can imagine; so it stings a bit when you're confronted with the fact that actual professional players don't love the club in the same way you do as a fan. Again, when you think about it logically, we all know this on some level - one-club men like Dunky are so rare in football, players can't really afford to have the same emotional attachment to a club that fans do because they never *really* know where they'll be playing from one season to the next.

None of this makes any of the toxic comments okay, of course. Just trying to explain what leads a person to that kind of weird, dark place.

As far as these particular two players are concerned, it seems pretty clear that they'd each rather be at each other's club. Colwill wants to be at Brighton and Sanchez wants to be at Chelsea. The solution seems obvious and I hope the clubs can hammer something out.

 

[shibainu]

There is a tendency for football fans to think the players their club has developed owe something to the club and, by extension, the fans. We all do it tbh, even though thinking about it for a while reveals the situation to be a bit more complicated than that. You can see it in our fans' reaction to the Sanchez situation - while his behaviour and Colwill's aren't remotely comparable, the fan reactions to both are coming from the same place, a sense of "you're one of our boys, how could you do this to us".

Football fans are an emotional bunch. I'm speculating a lot here, but I think a part of it is that, as a fan, playing for your club is one of the greatest honours you can imagine; so it stings a bit when you're confronted with the fact that actual professional players don't love the club in the same way you do as a fan. Again, when you think about it logically, we all know this on some level - one-club men like Dunky are so rare in football, players can't really afford to have the same emotional attachment to a club that fans do because they never *really* know where they'll be playing from one season to the next.

None of this makes any of the toxic comments okay, of course. Just trying to explain what leads a person to that kind of weird, dark place.

As far as these particular two players are concerned, it seems pretty clear that they'd each rather be at each other's club. Colwill wants to be at Brighton and Sanchez wants to be at Chelsea. The solution seems obvious and I hope the clubs can hammer something out.

Thank you for the explanation! I now better understand why there are that much emotional reactions. Hope the clubs can find a solution that benefits all parties.

 

[Littlemo]

I'm sure I'm being incredibly dense...but I don't get it.

That was posted just after Chelsea lost 4-1, and given the four finger gesture, looks like he is laughing at them getting beaten.

As JetsetJimbo put very well above, fans don’t really like that from their players. They think he ought to be feeling the pain like a fan right now.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Joao Pedro plus Colwill would arguably have potential to be our best summer of business ever? Dreamland but even with Colwill unlikely, stranger things have happened.

Full backs both strike me as our biggest need though. Imagine Milner and Alex Scott added to the two above, plus Dahoud! Would be like a videogame transfer window.

 

[Icy Gull]

Colwill appears to be a sensible lad who has loved his breakthrough season. How much say he has in his future is debatable but it is looking like he would be happy to stay at a club on the up where he knows he is valued over getting a bigger wage packet but not necessarily being a regular starter at a giant in disarray. All quite refreshing however it ends I think. I’d love him to stay somehow.

 

[Icy Gull]

Chelsea supporters seem to be really really upset by Colwill's interview and his tweet. As a Japanese I don't get all those "you can't do this to your parent club" thing. Is a player from your academy that special? Also he's just celebrating our EL qualification not their loss. And he's just a 20 yo lad. Hard to understand why they have to post all those toxic comments to him directly.

It’s the Chelsea way, obnoxious club from top to bottom and they always have been, even before the Russian bank rolled them. A nouveau riche Millwall in fact.

As @Simster says they are also a club “look at me “ glory hunting celebrities have latched onto during their rise through obscene money. Jeremy Vine being the one who grates the most with me

 

[Bold Seagull]

It’s the Chelsea way, obnoxious club from top to bottom and they always have been, even before the Russian bank rolled them. A nouveau riche Millwall in fact.

The nuttiest summer ever coming up Icy? Players wanting to move to us, targetted players maybe wanting to stay? Exciting players coming in. Brighton transfer record broken, maybe more than once? Am I getting ahead of myself?

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Of course those tweets could just mean he’s going to United with Mason Mount!

 

[Icy Gull]

The nuttiest summer ever coming up Icy? Players wanting to move to us, targetted players maybe wanting to stay? Exciting players coming in. Brighton transfer record broken, maybe more than once? Am I getting ahead of myself?

Nope we are all living and loving the dream! It will of course all come crashing down, it’s in our DNA

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

I wonder how many times a player has been loaned from one PL club to another, but then finished in a (much) higher position than the host club?