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Realistic Transfer Targets
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I personally think whichever teams join QPR in the Premiership will have a few players who aren't up to the top flight! As you say Jackson would be one of them, Perhaps Luke Moore from Swansea, Parkin from Cardiff or Tyson,Tudgay and Earnshaw from Forest. All Definately championship quality but probably wouldn't make the grade?
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Earnshaw is defo worth a shout if wages affordable, not sure about Tyson, Moore or Parkin. Would love Borini on a season long loan from Chelsea. C'mon Gus use those contacts!!
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Borini seems quite the prospect and I'm sure he will be on Gus' radar
BensGrandad
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Read somewhere that Nathan Tyson is going to sign for Derby when his contract expires at Forest.
What about somebody like Gary McSheffery at Coventry a proven scorer at this level, possibly getting on a bit now.
What about somebody like Gary McSheffery at Coventry a proven scorer at this level, possibly getting on a bit now.
Jimbo26
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What's wrong with Casper
BensGrandad
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Just looked it up he is only 29 in August. Dont think his transfer value would be too high, wages may be and the fact that he is back at Coventry his hometown club.
severnside gull
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update on the Dundee Utd pair - manager now seemingly confirming our interest although that doesn't rule it out as just agent's talk
BBC Sport - Conway, Buaben and Gomis to leave Dundee United
BBC Sport - Conway, Buaben and Gomis to leave Dundee United
clapham_gull
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Spanish Seagulls
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That report states that Guy Poyets Brighton were runaway leaders of League One! Anyway I for one am not in favour of picking many players discarded by teams that gain promotion to the Premiership. They are a very short sighted solution to us stepping up a class. We are going to attempt to get into the play off places & then we would surely have to discard those players again unless they had improved dramatically under Gus & his staff. Surely we would be looking more towards players with potential to step up & perhaps a player or two who are Premiership class & want to be involved with the revolution that is taking place at Brighton. There will be one or two older heads that Gus will convince to join us on a 2 or 3 year contract with rewards in their contracts for successfully getting us promoted. I don't want players who are not good enough to step up. If Gus sees something in a player then that's good enough for me though.
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I agree but we need to be realistic in our targets. We won't be able to compete against clubs like Soton, Cardiff, QPR, Leeds and Leicester because of their financial power. Therefore we have to rely on Gus' and John Stephenson's talent scouting.
As we partially brought Stephenson in for this purpose, I fully expect a few signings that are not necessarily big stars but big players with big futures. Prince Buaben and Morgaro Gomis must fit in to this category of we would not be after them.
supaseagull
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Sorry to paraphrase you here, but I always laugh when I see people mention teams like the above and consider them to be in a better position financially to us.
Southampton are pretty much stuffed since Leibherr died.
Cardiff have had the threat of Administration hanging over them (especially Cardiff!) and Leicester might have spent a bit, but they're still only 11th.
No one knows who actually knows who owns Leeds and so it's currently pointless them shelling out loads of cash on players to get promoted, when the Premier League will prevent them from entering due to league rules stating that the owner of a club must be known.
QPR are the only exception to the above from a "debt" perspective. However, we all know how much trouble they may potentially be in if the league finds them guilty of breaching league rules with the Argie they signed.
We also don't know how much Bloom is going to make available to Poyet but there have been rumours of a transfer budget of upto £30 Million to get us into the Prem and if this is true, then it will make us extremely competitive to get the calibre of players we need to get us into the top 6 that Bloom has been quoted as looking toward for next year.
One thing for sure, is that we're in for a bloody interesting next 4 months from a transfer perspective!!!
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Or how about fellow Liverpool youngster Gerardo Bruna?
48. Gerardo Alfredo Bruna Blanco - Liverpool FC
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That's a superb shout, moved to England from Real Madrid in 2007, represented Argentina at youth level he is perfect for Gus and Tano....
British Bulldog
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I was thinking about Borini myself, He's scored loads of goals at reserve level for Chelsea and is currently on loan at Swansea where he's scored 6 goals in 7 games. The only problem with getting him though is he's out of contract at Chelsea in the summer and there's Italian teams like Lazio that are interested in signing him so he could well be beyond us.
Another player who I was thinking about from Chelsea is Jack Cork ( son of Alan ) Plays mainly in midfield but can cover at centre back and full back. Unlikely to break into Chelsea 1st team and spends most seasons out on loan so probably a bit more of a realistic target and probably would've played alongside Bridcutt in Chelsea's reserves.
'It's well known in England that when the ball is going forward every centre-half in the division loves to head it as high and as long as possible back down the pitch,' he says.
Read more: Gus Poyet says English football has to blend tradition with a passing game - and play it the Brighton way | Mail Online
Who ?
Read more: Gus Poyet says English football has to blend tradition with a passing game - and play it the Brighton way | Mail Online
Who ?
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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I think this is the way forward for a lot of our new signings. The sides going going up are going to release a number of decent championship level players. As will prem teams, a la Chelsea and Bridcutt. I know Bloom has said we'll have a competitive budget and wants us to aim for the top six, while Poyet has said we need six or seven new players but I can't see us paying out transfer fees for everyone of them. If we sign Hoskins(and I have no idea whether we will or not now) and Lua Lua, that will be an outlay of 1.5-2million. I will be surprised(and delighted!) if we were then to spend significantly more than that on fees for the other four or five players. Which is where the released prem players and players from promoted clubs come in. Helguson and Derry from QPR(for example) would be pretty decent signings. Both have spent their careers in the top two divisions, and are vastly experienced players without being too old.
BensGrandad
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After watching him play for Huddersfield on Saturday could we go after Afobe who is on loan from Arsenal. He was a handful and a season long loan could suit us and Arsenal as we both try to play football the right way.
Before yesterday he'd done very little, 2 goals in 20 odd appearances. He looked good, but think he just had one of those games, much like John Akinde at Daggers down here. Worth looking at a few of the QPR players, can't see a number of them making the step up, plus they'll have a lot of money to spend on better replacements.