Calm down Frank. The other posters are correct.
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[Albion] Realistic and plausible transfer business…
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Calm down Frank. The other posters are correct.
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Frankworthington
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What other posters mate?
Time we tell.At the end of last season i felt we needed competition for Trossard and Maupay. Gonzales would have been an amazing signing and i am sure we have other irons in the fire.Edouard was NOT the answer and the club know it.
You keep mentioning that we have never replaced Murray but our style of play has completely changed
For what it is worth Adam Armstrong and Dan James are on my wish list.Others may disagree
I fully expect us to stay up with the present squad
But stay up is not the aim now. Try and keep up Frank. I know you’re getting on, but you are beginning to look out of touch
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Frankworthington
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Out of touch?
What is the aim now then? Progress shirley?
Did you read ALL of my post?Or just pick out the bit you did not like?
West Ham do not seem to be doing much business.You know why? They have ran out of money!! The price of a place in Europe!!
Come on Frank, keep up with the program.
The club just need to go out and buy a £50m striker who wants to join us, whose club are prepared to sell, who has elite experience at a top league, fits our wage cap and will score 20 a season. It’s easy mate.
Clearly Tony needs to get on the phone to make b.W.2 his new head of recruitment strategy.
It would be if only old skinflint Tony would agree to fork out a paltry £250K a week for his wages - I'm sure he could afford it if he wanted to.Bloody tight-wad ....................
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um bongo molongo
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I don’t think any (or at least most) of us think this at all. I don’t see a clamour for us to spunk £40M and £150K a week on Tammy Abraham for example. But we do need more quality and pace in our front 3, and we need to be more clinical in front of goal. We all know that at £15-25M and our wage structure any forward will be a calculated punt. We were reportedly interested in Toney last year who with some hindsight would have been a good punt it seems (we’ll find out more next season). I think Edouard would be a good punt as well, others disagree. Despite a slow-ish start in Portugal, Nunez looks like will be a top player and would have been a good signing. I haven’t seen much of Rodriguez but he looks like another decent player. It’s frustrating because we seem to be fishing in the right pools, but not quite landing the big fish. Or to put it another way, if we keep buying pretty girls drinks the hope has to be that eventually one will let us take her home…
Justice
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There is no point debating with some posters on this subject, they over exaggerate fees and wages label other posters entitled for hoping we sign a forward. It’s so glaringly obvious we need to apart from NSC’s super fans who can’t quite grasp the concept of being a PL club and recoil at the thought of spending £20m on a player.
We need a striker, otherwise how will our league position improve over last season?
I trust the club to find that player. Might be a season-long loanee.
I trust the club to find that player. Might be a season-long loanee.
I know. I’m more commenting on bw2 and his repetitive, slightly FIFA’ish take on the subject haranguing other posters. Of course I agree we need a striker. This isn’t breaking news. Surely everyone associated with the Albion know this. I’ve posted many times on this and that the Celtic lad would be a punt I see a lot of upside too.
But I will trust GP, DA, Tony and the club as a whole to be working on finding one. As the Nunez and Gonzalez episodes show, we have the money for the right player. The problem is wages and flatly being seen as a less glamorous option compared to other clubs in Europe. If we continue to progress on the field however that perception may change.
You know fine well the target is top 10 now. Don’t play dumb Frank.
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It will change when we land a striker of sufficient quality and climb the PL (ironically). In the meantime I object to your slur on my posts, which are acceptable criticism of our recruitment army’s ONLY failure. Tough if you don’t like it.
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Who said £50m!? Not me
And I have consistently said our recruitment army need to do their ****ing job. It is their job to find the striker we need, not mine, and not yours either.
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And nobody mentioned wages either. To repeat, our recruitment army have to find the right striker at the right price and with the right wages. They get paid to do so. They are doing a great job in all but one area of the pitch. Time to put that right.
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So after a few pages of bickering not many suggestions for realistic and plausible transfer business. A shame as, since the rumour mill is barely functioning just now, this was my last hope for transfer titillation.
For what it's worth, I also find the schoolmasterly type scolding of the recruitment team with "must do better" pronouncements annoying. I mean, yes obviously it would be better if they could find better players (especially strikers) and they haven't exactly covered themselves in glory since we ran out of ex-strikers to sign, but phrasing it as some sort of ultimatum smacks of a bullying, middle management mentality which I hate*. And besides, the implicit question for any ultimatum is "or what?" and this can lead others to assume you mean "or we are relegated", hence accusations of doom mongering.
We all want the recruitment team to do better and it seems some of us have the serenity to accept the things we cannot change and some of us don't. I am in a third camp made up of those who swing between serene and frustrated during these transfer windows and I find that having most threads derailed by the same pointless arguments about how well the recruitment team are or are not doing does not help my peace of mind.
But, you know, it is a free country so go ahead and complain. And can I suggest that the rest of us stop responding to these complaints to somehow break the monotonous cycle?
*Apologies to all those bullying, middle management people on here btw.
For what it's worth, I also find the schoolmasterly type scolding of the recruitment team with "must do better" pronouncements annoying. I mean, yes obviously it would be better if they could find better players (especially strikers) and they haven't exactly covered themselves in glory since we ran out of ex-strikers to sign, but phrasing it as some sort of ultimatum smacks of a bullying, middle management mentality which I hate*. And besides, the implicit question for any ultimatum is "or what?" and this can lead others to assume you mean "or we are relegated", hence accusations of doom mongering.
We all want the recruitment team to do better and it seems some of us have the serenity to accept the things we cannot change and some of us don't. I am in a third camp made up of those who swing between serene and frustrated during these transfer windows and I find that having most threads derailed by the same pointless arguments about how well the recruitment team are or are not doing does not help my peace of mind.
But, you know, it is a free country so go ahead and complain. And can I suggest that the rest of us stop responding to these complaints to somehow break the monotonous cycle?
*Apologies to all those bullying, middle management people on here btw.
So after a few pages of bickering not many suggestions for realistic and plausible transfer business. A shame as, since the rumour mill is barely functioning just now, this was my last hope for transfer titillation.
For what it's worth, I also find the schoolmasterly type scolding of the recruitment team with "must do better" pronouncements annoying. I mean, yes obviously it would be better if they could find better players (especially strikers) and they haven't exactly covered themselves in glory since we ran out of ex-strikers to sign, but phrasing it as some sort of ultimatum smacks of a bullying, middle management mentality which I hate*. And besides, the implicit question for any ultimatum is "or what?" and this can lead others to assume you mean "or we are relegated", hence accusations of doom mongering.
We all want the recruitment team to do better and it seems some of us have the serenity to accept the things we cannot change and some of us don't. I am in a third camp made up of those who swing between serene and frustrated during these transfer windows and I find that having most threads derailed by the same pointless arguments about how well the recruitment team are or are not doing does not help my peace of mind.
But, you know, it is a free country so go ahead and complain. And can I suggest that the rest of us stop responding to these complaints to somehow break the monotonous cycle?
*Apologies to all those bullying, middle management people on here btw.
My sincere apologies. Unintended consequences of my rant.
For balance, apart from Edouard, the rumours are:
Crotone CF Simy Nwankwo, KRC Genk’s Paul Onuachu, and Gooner Eddie Nketiah. Does that help?
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um bongo molongo
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You know how everyone always moots player swaps and they never actually happen? One has happened!
http://www.skysports.com/share/12364395
http://www.skysports.com/share/12364395
Brighton & Love
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I only noticed this bloke during the euro's playing for Denmark. He really caught my eye. Reminded me a lot of Modric. He looks very elegant on the ball and seems to have that ability of orchestrating the midfield. After researching him and seeing he's at Brentford, I don't think it's too much of a long shot.
Seasidesage
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It's not really true that the Recruitment team haven't found any strikers though is it? They identified Nunez and Gonzalez it was just that neither choose to come to Brighton? It happens, what they appear unwilling to do and I think its policy is move down a list to players not good enough or without the requisite skill set because target one said no.