The Albion player you were most gutted to see leave/sold...

[nelson73]

mike small and garry nelson for me

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Ssshhh, but...Murray

 

[Husty]

Glenn Murray

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Also, Sergei Gotsmanov brought a brief glimmer of hope in bad timed, only to be pinched by Saints. Same happened with Steve Sidwell & Reading, though they weren't ever really our players to start with.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Glenn Murray, because it was so avoidable.

Agree, Murray by a mile. Ward, Lawrenson & Zamora were always going to leave at some stage it was just a question of when.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Gotsmanov

I remember having a very animated conversation with steve wooke or what ever his name was when he went to Southampton.

He was a glorious player in a completely crap period of our history.

 

[bluenitsuj]

Zamora

Certainly not Barnes.

 

[Mr Smggles]

Elliot Bennett for me.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Two stand out for me - Dean Saunders and Danny Cullip.

 

[Taybha]

Nooney , well pissed off but deserves his chance in the prem

 

[Codner's Wallop]

Also reckon Mark Beeney is worth an honorary mention. He'd been brilliant for us for four seasons.

Remember feeling very sad we had to sell to Leeds because the club was in such dire financial trouble.

 

[Acker79]

I really don't remember ever feeling gutted, or particularly upset about losing any player. It just has always seemed part and parcel of the game and supporting a team that isn't dominating the domestic top league as well as european competitions.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

The, some might say, surprising wave of disappointment over Barnes being sold got me thinking about other Brighton "favourites" and their sad departures. What are yours?

For me it would have to be:

Garry Nelson - shoved out to the wing then to Charlton by Lloyd
Bobby Zamora - Inevitable but still gutting
Danny Cullip - Not the best player but a huge part of the club and a shock when he went.

Barry Rees.

He didn't "leave" though
(or if you count it as leaving it's a hell of a high transfer fee he paid)

Seems a pretty sad departure to me.

 

[c0lz]

Ward Lawrenson and Zamora.

Ditto

 

[somerset]

I'll go with Murray, I think Zamora was inevitable and he went with our best wishes. Further back, I think Lawrenson was a sad moment, but the £900k was most welcome.

 

[FamilyGuy]

Gary Stevens - to Tottenham!

Man he was good!!

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Two stand out for me - Dean Saunders and Danny Cullip.

I was gutted about Cullip going and at about the same time really disappointed that we sold Darren Currie. I really enjoyed watching Currie play and he created so many chances in his short spell. He had also improved dramatically from when we took a chance on him in the summer and looked like he was going to get better with every game he played. It also hurt that he went to my best friend's team Ipswich. I know the money massively helped and Ipswich were fighting for promotion but I wasn't happy.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Zamora
Kit Napier
Fred Binney
Tony Towner
and now
Ashley Barnes

I do however have a warm feeling that young Obika is going to be 'right proper mustard'!

TNBA

TTF

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Ward
Lawrenson
Stevens
Foster
Robinson
Horton
Zamora
Wilson
Case

All infinitely better players than any who have gone of late.

100% Agree.

 

[Lord Bamber]

Ryan Harley & Hans Kraay.

One of those is untrue.