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[Albion] Roberto De Zerbi - JOINS AS NEW HEAD COACH (4 year contract)



Grizz

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Sanchez is only 25, barely cooked as a Goalkeeper, so plenty of time for him to fight for his place and figure out how to cut out the bloopers that get highlighted so often. He's a cracking goalkeeper, getting dropped in favour of the excellent Steele could be motivation he needs to take his game to that genuine elite level. All this talk of selling him is daft.
 




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Sanchez is only 25, barely cooked as a Goalkeeper, so plenty of time for him to fight for his place and figure out how to cut out the bloopers that get highlighted so often. He's a cracking goalkeeper, getting dropped in favour of the excellent Steele could be motivation he needs to take his game to that genuine elite level. All this talk of selling him is daft.
Agree. I think it is known in the game as a “Kick up the arse” that he probably needs and shows him that Steele is genuine competition for the shirt. He will rise to the challenge, I’m sure, because he won’t get to keep for Spain if he is not getting game time.
 


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Agree. I think it is known in the game as a “Kick up the arse” that he probably needs and shows him that Steele is genuine competition for the shirt. He will rise to the challenge, I’m sure, because he won’t get to keep for Spain if he is not getting game time.
Agreed, I think Sanchez is a player who probably needs a kick up the arse rather than a cuddle, Steele however is probably in the needs a cuddle rather than a kick up the arse type. Didn’t he have a torrid time in the North East at Sunderland (?) before he came here?

Steele making a much bigger cock up than Sanchez last week.


 
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Sanchez is only 25, barely cooked as a Goalkeeper, so plenty of time for him to fight for his place and figure out how to cut out the bloopers that get highlighted so often. He's a cracking goalkeeper, getting dropped in favour of the excellent Steele could be motivation he needs to take his game to that genuine elite level. All this talk of selling him is daft.
It stops being daft when he's holding up the production line.
I have no idea where the club is at with that, and the skillset therein.

But for us, on the outside, to be dismissive of 25 year old Bob is as you say daft (and very much on brand!)
 


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For the manager too. The English image of Italy is that if you lose three matches in a row you get the sack. It's not quite the same here. Managers tend to get time. There are some exceptions, Watford being a famous one. Watford are owned by an Italian..

A question. My Italian team is Lazio. This pre-dates Gascoigne. I kind of stopped following them a little bit because I was told that their fans were right wing fascists and somehow liking them made me a bad person. How true is this ?
I'm not saying they are fascists, but Paulo is a typical Lazio ultra.

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And Mussolini's grandson, Romano Floriani Mussolini, is on their books.

They are the antithesis of cute and cuddly BHA.
 




brighton_tom

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I'm not saying they are fascists, but Paulo is a typical Lazio ultra.

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And Mussolini's grandson, Romano Floriani Mussolini, is on their books.

They are the antithesis of cute and cuddly BHA.
Went to the Bologna vs Lazio game a few weeks back and saw a fair few fascist style salutes amongst their fans who’d gathered in the city pre-game, presumably their ultras.
 




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They couldn’t afford to keep him.

Was on a whopping £6.7m a year…
Crikey!

£128K a week.....

Still.....this is Schmeichel though...

And 6.7 million is about half the amount of 'prize' money you miss out on by finishing 15th instead of 5th....

PositionPrize money
1st£44 million ($54.4 million)
2nd£41.8 million ($51.7 million)
3rd£39.6 million ($49 million)
4th£37.4 million ($46.3 million)
5th£35.2 million ($43.6 million)
6th£33 million ($40.8 million)
7th£30.8 million ($38.1 million)
8th£28.6 million ($35.4 million)
9th£26.4 million ($32.7 million)
10th£24.2 million ($29.9 million)
11th£22 million ($27.2 million)
12th£19.8 million ($24.5 million)
13th£17.6 million ($21.8 million)
14th£15.4 million ($19.1 million)
15th£13.2 million ($16.3 million)
16th£11 million ($13.6 million)
17th£8.8 million ($10.9 million)
18th£6.6 million ($8.2 million)
19th£4.4 million ($5.4 million)
20th£2.2 million ($2.7 million)
 




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Crikey!

£128K a week.....

Still.....this is Schmeichel though...

And 6.7 million is about half the amount of 'prize' money you miss out on by finishing 15th instead of 5th....

He wasn't their only highly paid player...

 
















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Very interesting from Naylor. It wasn’t what I was told but I’m guessing his ITK’s are solid.
But Naylor says Brighton would never put release clauses in, yet we did for Potter so go figure ?!
 




jcdenton08

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But Naylor says Brighton would never put release clauses in, yet we did for Potter so go figure ?!
Yeah, sorry just seen that. It’s strange that he’s being so hostile, I’m sensing he enjoyed his moment of infamy with the Arsenal fans and Caicedo saga perhaps a little too much.
 


JBizzle

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But Naylor says Brighton would never put release clauses in, yet we did for Potter so go figure ?!
Nothing on our side ever confirmed a release clause though did it? Only that we had a figure in mind and that we accepted it? Either way, Chelsea paid a HUGE sum of money to get Potter
 




Nobby Cybergoat

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My understanding of the Potter situation at the time was, there was no release clause. However, Chelsea wanted him, made him an offer, he accepted, made us an offer, we accepted.

Crucially we accepted because at that point it was sensible not to dig in and let him go, and not because we were obliged by a clause in his contract.

This is how the vast majority of transfers of players and managers happen in English football
 


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My understanding of the Potter situation at the time was, there was no release clause. However, Chelsea wanted him, made him an offer, he accepted, made us an offer, we accepted.

Crucially we accepted because at that point it was sensible not to dig in and let him go, and not because we were obliged by a clause in his contract.

This is how the vast majority of transfers of players and managers happen in English football
Rather than a pure ‘buyout’, suspect his contract prevents him from walking into another similar role if he walks away from it - the compo payment means we allow him to take up another job.
 


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