Johnny RoastBeef
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- Jan 11, 2016
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Our attempt to sign Gonzalez suggests he wants something different.
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[Albion] Odsonne Édouard
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Our attempt to sign Gonzalez suggests he wants something different.
I’m with you. That’s my feeling too.
But I see us linked continuously to wingers and full backs and with no new strikers through the door the evidence suggests otherwise.
“Unless someone really special becomes available who ticks all the boxes”. Ditto Nunez.
um bongo molongo
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Probably just reflects the difficulty signing decent strikers. Nunez showed we’re in the market for the ‘right’ one. I can see the sense last year of saying ‘unless we land one who’s really good we’ll just go with Welbeck on a free as he’s as good as the other options’. You’d hope with a second summer window though we’d finally land one. One of the reasons I’d be excited about Edouard as I think he’s potentially the right level of ‘good, could be really good, but not quite proven enough for a really big club to go for him’.
Agree with all of this.
I’ve long wanted us to land Edouard. He’s a punt, but it’s a punt with enough upside (footballing and monetarily) to warrant a £15-20m deal.
If we don’t get him this window I wonder if DA, GP and co. Just don’t fancy him. Because it seems such an obvious transfer right now.
- Jun 27, 2012
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Maybe but your point was that the club sat on their hands “every close season” and didn’t try and add strikers to the squad - comfortable with what they had. They weren’t and they didn’t.
- Jun 27, 2012
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Given that a source close to the club has literally said this to a reporter - then that might be a clue.
um bongo molongo
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My point was more aimed at the NSC-errati. Last year when we missed out on Nunez lots of people said ‘it’s fine, we have enough, etc.’ Followed by our front 3 scuffing and shanking gilt edged chances for the next 38 games…
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Quite, I know Ashworth has his good points but how he did that interview last summer and said we had a good window was laughable.
Much like Nunez did in the significantly worse Portuguese league.
It was a very good transfer window, think it was a fair thing to say.
13 or 14 teams will be "fighting relegation", 6 or 7 will be fighting for top four. Brighton will most likely end up in the first category. This is not Championship or League One.
Kalimantan Gull
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We said 'it's fine' because Maupay had had a good first season. Then he had a difficult second season and he is now being widely written off. My feeling is he'll put that behind him and become very good, I think he'll thrive off fans being back in the grounds.
um bongo molongo
Well-known member
The same Darwin Nunez linked with Man City and now being valued at over €100M? Yeah, glad we dodged that bullet.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....s/darwin-nunez-man-city-transfer-21069284.amp
um bongo molongo
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So Leeds fought relegation last season did they? Villa? There’s more than two strata.
Frankworthington
Well-known member
If we do not sign a new striker by the timr the window shuts,we are DOOMED!! Lol
What an entitled bunch of so-called fans!
um bongo molongo
Well-known member
What utter rot. Everyone can see we’re a decent attacker or two away from being a very good side, instead of perennial bottom 5. Including the club leadership no doubt, who have stated their aspiration to be top 10. If wanting us to land that player (or players) is entitled, then so is every fan in the country. So climb down off your high horse.
AmexRuislip
Retired Spy 🕵️♂️
Proposed £21.4 million bid for a porridge league striker, has the world gone mad 
Yes the same. He scored 6 league goals and had a poor season. No doubt a talented player but no one is going to pay €100m for a substitute from Benfica despite what Jorge Jesus said very early into the season.
AlbionInUs
Active member
Did he have a very good first season though? And did he have a difficult second season? I’d argue that, although Maupay’s first season was better than his second, neither were much different from each other. In the most recent season, Maupay had a poor second half, but a decent first half. If his poor run of form was in the first half instead of the second half, our perspective of Maupay’s season would be drastically different. In Maupay’s first season, he had 10 goals and 3 assists compared with 8 goals and 2 assists in the most recent campaign. You also have to take into consideration the fact that Maupay played 250 less minutes this season. Maupay was also only slightly less clinical last season, underperforming xG by 5.74 goals instead of 4.71.
They did until they didnt. Much like everyone else. Ended up far from relegation in the end (just like Brighton) but I saw plenty of their fans shitting themselves when they lost four out of five games in January / February. Plenty of people also shat themselves with Brighton being 7 or so points ahead with five games to go. The question is perhaps "what do you consider a relegation battle?"