[Albion] Simon Adingra - 20 year old Ivory Coast forward - Signed 24/06/2022

[Stat Brother]

Not so long ago we’d pay £3,000 on a punt.

Best see him play before making up your mind!

 

[Swansman]

Another Stoke reservist. He’s just stocks and shares. Will never make A team. Nothing to see here is there really? Hope he gets promoted after his permanent move to Cov or Boro in 2025. Wonder how Roland Bergkamp’s getting on these days?

Based on what?

Not surprised you feel that way though as you've frequently bashed the club for not beating Manchester City or Chelsea away. Mbappe or Haaland might be the only signings that would please you.

 

[Swansman]

I love the naivety to think we are reliant on off the shelf scouting software

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Who said "reliant"?

All teams use these kind of tools. Why wouldn't they? How do you think it works?

"Off the shelf" is also a bit playing it down. The versions of these programs made for professional football clubs usually costs hundreds of thousands a year.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

We love describing wingers as forwards !

Wishful thinking maybe

Am I missing something here? Wingers ARE 'forwards' aren't they, in just about anybody's parlance?

Not STRIKERS, necessarily, but absolutely FORWARD players.

Or are the likes of Mo Salah, Raheem Sterling, Leandro Trossard etc not 'forwards'?

 

[southstandandy]

Looks pretty swift.

 

[chaileyjem]

Looks pretty swift.

Sure they've been working on for quite a while and its taken as long as most other deals. Difference is unlike most of the other "transfers" we know about which are discussed for weeks and then nearly always turn out to have no substance at all - the first anyone heard of this one is "he's on his way to Lancing for a medical".

 

[Bry Nylon]

Not so long ago we’d pay £3,000 on a punt.

Someone else who's been on a date in Cambridge then?

 

[sydney]

hopefully the current scouting system is more astute than you ****in melons...!

 

[Whitechapel]

Sure they've been working on for quite a while and its taken as long as most other deals. Difference is unlike most of the other "transfers" we know about which are discussed for weeks and then nearly always turn out to have no substance at all - the first anyone heard of this one is "he's on his way to Lancing for a medical".

Am I being whooshed here?

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

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[LeicesterGull]

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Apparently on his way over by train from Paris....this could take a while to get over the line!

 

[Baldseagull]

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Looks like his delivery should be decent.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Another Stoke reservist. He’s just stocks and shares. Will never make A team. Nothing to see here is there really? Hope he gets promoted after his permanent move to Cov or Boro in 2025. Wonder how Roland Bergkamp’s getting on these days?

John Stephenson left the club pretty soon after the RB debacle. We then got David Burke. He was sacked on the spot. Then we got Dan Ashworth.

 

[Hugo Rune]

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The club must be pretty damn certain of his potential if they’re handing him a 5 year contract. We might not see him in the first team for 18 months or so but another ‘potential’ star of the future, he could be.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

We're spreading ourselves quite thinly with forwards / strikers in the 18 to 21 age bracket.

I'm sure he'll have a year or 2 years on loan, but at some point, we could have several graduate to be looking for first team football (with us or someone else at a similar time). I'm thinking Sima, Zeqiri, Tolaj, Ferguson, Baker- Boatey, Enciso. Players like Moran, Richards may also see themselves as playing in the forward line as well. (and i'll bet I've forgotten at least two)

It's great, but there's surely a critical mass. Ultimately we'll have to play them at the top level to improve them or just to find out whether they can play at the top level and there's only so much game time we can give them. At some point we'll make a decision on one or two, then stick with that decision

 

[rippleman]

Oh. So just another "buy to loan to sell" then. Can't get excited about them. Which is a shame as his highlight reel looked pretty good I thought.

 

[Giraffe]

Jib.

As you were.

I like the cut of his jib.

 

[Wardy's twin]

I would advise people of my generation to play with sound down - backing track is sh*t

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Oh. So just another "buy to loan to sell" then. Can't get excited about them. Which is a shame as his highlight reel looked pretty good I thought.

Isn't that what we thought about Caicedo last summer?

 

[Swansman]

Oh. So just another "buy to loan to sell" then. Can't get excited about them. Which is a shame as his highlight reel looked pretty good I thought.

Oh yeah I remember [MENTION=38515]Frankworthington[/MENTION] saying that the system is junk and that we would never see Caicedo in a Brighton shirt.

You'd imagine that players like Alexis MacAllister and Moises Caicedo would teach you not to count out players being brought in to go on loan, but one thing we can learn from history is that people struggle to learn from history.