"What he’s ended up deciding is that going straight from step three of non-league to a Premier League club would be a step too far.
“In some ways it could be seen as a dream move but think about it: What would be his chances of getting in their first team?
"Ollie wants to play first-team professional football and he probably has more chance of that by going to a smaller club."
The Lewes manager's comments.
He also said "“Brighton and Spurs both made bids for Ollie and while Brighton’s was silly, one from Spurs was accepted by the club.". Wonder what we offered. £10k and bunch of kit?
Bit of a dumb move from a local semi-pro club to publicly call BHA ‘silly’ really.
He said the bid is silly not the club. You could argue a premier League club putting in silly bids to their non League neighbours isn't great
They're not going to be pissed off by that.You could, but BHA are far more likely to be loaning promising players out to Lewes (as long as no-one pisses them off) than the other way round.
They're not going to be pissed off by that.
Let's hope they're not soured further by such strong languageRelationships have been pretty off and on in the last few seasons.