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Summer 2015 transfer window thread
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The_Viper
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When does our pre season start?
brightonmark1234
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4 quality signings thats what we should be doing if we want to challenge this season
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Sadly Derby are light years ahead of us when it comes to ambition.
Marshy
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Haven't we said that about derby the last 3 seasons... Take nothing for granted in this league
BensGrandad
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Is he still away, I am sure I read he is back on Monday but is it a simple holiday or working holiday. Which countries are still playing MLS, Australia so that he could be watching players?
portslade seagull
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we can only hope our scouting team are working like Trojans to get our quality players in .... but I won't hold my breath
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
We are meant to all relax about transfer business.
However, the fact is we need 6 new signings ( +1 if Dunk leaves ) ( +1 if COG leaves ) ( +1 if Walton goes out on loan ), and pre season starts in 2 weeks.
So much to do, So little time.
DarrenFreemansPerm
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So they have a front 3 of Martin, Bent and Weimann? Our squad is looking more and more inferior as the days tick away
portslade seagull
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Think we are being tight arses again to save on wages until the last possible moment and we know where that got us last season
This places our lack of transfer action well and truly into focus. We appear to be behaving like a tin pot club with no ambition ....yet again.
As each day goes by, our lack of decent signings becomes more and more depressing. Can we please GET ON WITH IT!!!
Yet we appear to have identified at least one possible addition to the squad, offered good money to buy him, and presumably offered him a half decent wage (we may not be the highest wage payers in the division (not if Reading are paying £55K a week!) but we are at least slightly above average) - and the player has just turned round and said, "No thanks, I don't want to come to Brighton".
Worrying - but we don't seem to be behaving like a tin-pot club with no ambition. What is worrying is that in spite of our shiny new stadium and state of the art training complex - and the fact that we pay reasonable wages - players don't seem keen to come here.
Icy Gull
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I fear the reality is that we are probably now seen as a club totally lacking in ambition since we sold our all our best players and replaced them with dross and loans. Sad but true, we'll just have to bumble along and hope to stay up, anything better will be a pleasant surprise as decent players don't seem to want to come here anymore. Kayal being the exception but he was hardly in demand due to injuries. The feel good factor at this club has well and truly been put to rest.
- Jun 27, 2012
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So you're calling it now. *Every* signing we make this summer. And we will make 7-8 signings, several of which will involve £m fees and astonishingly high wages... given TB, Hughton, Barber have all said they're spending this summer. *All* of them won't be decent players ?
Is that correct ?
HantsSeagull
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and you know this how?
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
At the end of the day, Ali wasn't the only player we were signing.
His agent was playing us, we weren't dancing to his tune and set a deadline. I suspect he was never going to sign for us, but was using our interest for other deals.
Fair enough, we did the right thing all along, from being ambitious with targetting him, to not getting strung along by his agent's antics.
But we still have NUL signings, which is getting to be a problem the closer we get to pre-season starting.
So let's get Murphy signed ( and not see him go to Bristol City ), get a left back, get Seb Blanco on loan, sign Rasmussen or another striker, and get it done soon.
And of course sort out the other players we need.
His agent was playing us, we weren't dancing to his tune and set a deadline. I suspect he was never going to sign for us, but was using our interest for other deals.
Fair enough, we did the right thing all along, from being ambitious with targetting him, to not getting strung along by his agent's antics.
But we still have NUL signings, which is getting to be a problem the closer we get to pre-season starting.
So let's get Murphy signed ( and not see him go to Bristol City ), get a left back, get Seb Blanco on loan, sign Rasmussen or another striker, and get it done soon.
And of course sort out the other players we need.
- Jun 27, 2012
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What else could happen ? We're going to start the season like Blackpool with a quad of 16 players ? , Bloom is lying ? Recruiting a striker doesn't involve a £m fee ? , we're going to be able to get players to come here without carrying on paying wages higher than most of the championship.
We might buy the wrong players. We might buy em too late. THey might be duffers. But they will be on expensive contracts. There will be 6-8 of em. and some will involve big fees. A couple might be on season long loans from the Prem. Like every other club in the league. except we spend more than most of em. What do you think will happen ?
Icy thinks they couldn't possibly be decent players. I'm sticking my neck out and hoping/praying/predicting a few of em just might be.
He doesn't...in a few words.
Icy Gull
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Don't you ever think that maybe we are not really that good at football matters at this club? We have been so fecking ineffective and head in the sand since Poyet left with the acquisition of players, whilst selling off anyone decent? I know I am a negative ******* but you seem to remain so positive despite the evidence being quite damning. I have seen absolutely nothing in the last two seasons to suggest that we are about to turn things around. Please don't quote the playoffs under Oscar, we got there in spite of the club's efforts rather than because of them.
No, I don't expect us to sign table topping players is the short answer...
Edit when I say not very good at football matters I don't mean on the selling side. We have done amazing business there.