Niki Mäenpää signs a 2 year deal

[glasfryn]

So he should be number one no matter how badly he plays ?

Jesus you spout more and more rubbish every time you post, first Ben Roberts as cover and now this

Competition does breed improvement it's a fact

he is old
can you find it in your heart to forgive him

 

[Iamapen15]

I'm told it's all agreed and he's signing Monday. The Fin that is, not BR! From someone fairly trustworthy.

 

[jamie the seagull]

"Brighton make official approach for Charlton coach Ben Roberts"

http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/Sport.cfm?id=37664

 

[Bombadier Botty]

"Brighton make official approach for Charlton coach Ben Roberts"

http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/Sport.cfm?id=37664

Charlton are going to be getting pissed off with us in the same way that Norwich used to piss me off with their regular raiding and pillaging parties riding down south to thieve and heading back up to Norfolk carrying cut price blue and white treasure.

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Its the footballing food chain. We are above some and below others. No need to get pissed off with it.

So it hasn't annoyed you or 'pissed you off' when our best players have been taken for peanuts in the past?

 

[jamie the seagull]

Brighton have been given permission to speak to Charlton's goalkeeping coach, Ben Roberts.
Roberts is widely respected as one of the best goalkeeping coaches around, and if he joins the Seagulls he would be reunited with close friend, Nathan Jones.
The pair have previously been at Brighton and Yeovil together.

http://www.cafcpicks.com/cgi-bin/drkish/display.pl?month=201506&date=20150620&time=1012

 

[nwgull]

So it hasn't annoyed you or 'pissed you off' when our best players have been taken for peanuts in the past?

Last player to have been sold at a disappointing price was probably Zamora to Spurs.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Last player to have been sold at a disappointing price was probably Zamora to Spurs.

Or Glenn Murray. For £0. To our closest rivals.

 

[Mental Lental]

A few days ago I saw one of the most imperious goalkeeping displays I've ever seen from Singapore's goalkeeper shutting out Japan 0-0. He plays in the Malaysian league so would be filthy cheap.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRBH_LBAtTM

 

[Thunder Bolt]

We didn't sell him. We released him. Two very different things.

We didn't release him. We offered him a contract which he refused to sign, wanting a lot more money. Two very different things.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Or Glenn Murray. For £0. To our closest rivals.

Palace GOONS perpetuate the myth we sold him.

There was no sale of Glenn Murray. Anyone who thinks there was could perhaps provide evidence of a sale contract being drawn up and signed

 

[nwgull]

Well, either way, we did not sell him.

Correct. And he bloke who decided that he wasn't worth the extra 2-3k a week left 2 years ago. We have a decent record for negotiating outgoing transfers:

Noone - 1.5m
Dobbie - 850k
Bridcut - 3m
Ulloa - 8m (probabky worth an extra 1.5m now)
Buckley - 2m for a sick note

The only one that may look undervalued - based on his subsequent performances more than what he did for us - has been Barnes. But with only 4 months left on his contract when he was sold, even the reported £700k we got for him wasn't bad considering that his Championshio level record was nothing special.

 

[SteveTheSeagull]

Correct. And he bloke who decided that he wasn't worth the extra 2-3k a week left 2 years ago. We have a decent record for negotiating outgoing transfers:

Noone - 1.5m
Dobbie - 850k
Bridcut - 3m
Ulloa - 8m (probabky worth an extra 1.5m now)
Buckley - 2m for a sick note

The only one that may look undervalued - based on his subsequent performances more than what he did for us - has been Barnes. But with only 4 months left on his contract when he was sold, even the reported £700k we got for him wasn't bad considering that his Championshio level record was nothing special.

I'm going to refrain myself from saying something about that 15 million.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I'm going to refrain myself from saying something about that 15 million.

You do realise in that time we've spent at least half of that 15 million on incoming players (Stockdale, Ulloa and Baldock cost over £5million between them), it's not like the money is going back into Blooms pocket and he's spending it on hookers and gin. The rest has gone to meet the massive costs of running a championship side. We can ask if they've spent the money on the right players in that time, we'll have some hits and some misses like all clubs, but to say they are sitting on £15million of unspent transfer income is incorrect.

 

[supaseagull]

You do realise in that time we've spent at least half of that 15 million on incoming players (Stockdale, Ulloa and Baldock cost over £5million between them), it's not like the money is going back into Blooms pocket and he's spending it on hookers and gin. The rest has gone to meet the massive costs of running a championship side. We can ask if they've spent the money on the right players in that time, we'll have some hits and some misses like all clubs, but to say they are sitting on £15million of unspent transfer income is incorrect.

No its not

 

[Zebedee]

Our priority is not a goalkeeper so I hope we don't waste too much time on trying to sign one. Walton is a good enough back up keeper.

 

[Albumen]

Our priority is not a goalkeeper so I hope we don't waste too much time on trying to sign one. Walton is a good enough back up keeper.

Not if he's out on loan to another club to gain experience (which he will be).

 

[Finchley Seagull]

You do realise in that time we've spent at least half of that 15 million on incoming players (Stockdale, Ulloa and Baldock cost over £5million between them), it's not like the money is going back into Blooms pocket and he's spending it on hookers and gin. The rest has gone to meet the massive costs of running a championship side. We can ask if they've spent the money on the right players in that time, we'll have some hits and some misses like all clubs, but to say they are sitting on £15million of unspent transfer income is incorrect.

Completely agree with this. We spent a lot of money on transfers and wages over the first two years up and in the last two we've spent money on Chicksen, Stephens, Baldock, O'Grady, Stockdale, Kayal plus a number of players on loan/free transfers who probably had significant fees attached to them. There are a lot of fans who are pretty simplistic about football as it's very easy to spend someone else's money.

 

[Finchley Seagull]

Our priority is not a goalkeeper so I hope we don't waste too much time on trying to sign one. Walton is a good enough back up keeper.

I agree it's not priority but I do think it's a good idea to loan Walton out for the season so he gets a full year of first team football and comes back a better player. If we do that, would you be happy with Ankergren as second choice?

 

[Lurchy]

I agree it's not priority but I do think it's a good idea to loan Walton out for the season so he gets a full year of first team football and comes back a better player. If we do that, would you be happy with Ankergren as second choice?

Ankergren would be fine as a very short stop gap either off the bench or covering for a match, but wouldn't feel comfortable with Casper filling in for several matches. There's several good keepers around who are available on free's (Al Habsi, Fulop, Bunn) who could come in, rather have one of those come in now and work with the squad rather than an emergency loan in who's not used to working with the squad.