at the time we made an offer for van dyke grongen were in a relegation battle and would not sell, by the summer when we would have renewed our interest poyet had left us and we were in the process of appointing a new manager Oscar Garcia, so we wouldn't have bought any players until the new manager was in place for his approval, Celtic came in and bought van dyke just at the wrong time for us !!
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[Albion] Virgil van Dijk for £3 Million! (and why we didn't sign him)
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Machiavelli
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He has, but not half as much as TalkShite does. They deserve each other.
Weststander
Well-known member
£3.25m on CMS, whilst seeing Muzza out of the door. [And no, the entire fanbase was not enthralled with that stunt]?
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Monkey Man
Your support is not that great
Ryan Harley was a brilliant Gus signing. "He gives us something we haven't got" I remember him saying.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
No, Bloom took over in 2009, although those named players were at Withdean, not the Amex.
Dave the OAP
Well-known member
He didn’t discover Bridge or Vicente either but he talked them into coming here. Although it all blew up in our faces he also managed to convince CMS to join the “small club” when much bigger clubs wanted him.
He knew a good player when he saw one and the fact that he was happy to promote young players to the first team and instill believe in the helped us enormously in our rise
Do you think we’d have got them regardless of who our manager was?
I’m no Poyet apologist and was delighted when he was shown the door after the way he treated the club, but that doesn’t take away that he was very good at many aspects of managing us.
His press conferences were a “must watch” too
He also persuaded Kissichev to sign for us too.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
One things for sure if we had signed him he wouldn’t be playing for us now ...Ex Celtic ..Ex Southampton
Dirk Lehmann's Python
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Has someone really just made the argument his press conferences were a great watch?
Were these when he was talking about Leeds, questioning whether Murray was good enough to get 20 goals in league 1, or blaming the board for his failure to get us promoted? Wonder what the ceiling is like at talksport.
Bloke did an absolutely amazing job at Withdean and signed some very good players at The Amex, but signed quite a few duds also and failed to get us promoted when he should have. I guess the guy is desperate now and whoring himself out to anyone who will listen that he discovered Van Dijk. Tosser.
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Were these when he was talking about Leeds, questioning whether Murray was good enough to get 20 goals in league 1, or blaming the board for his failure to get us promoted? Wonder what the ceiling is like at talksport.
Bloke did an absolutely amazing job at Withdean and signed some very good players at The Amex, but signed quite a few duds also and failed to get us promoted when he should have. I guess the guy is desperate now and whoring himself out to anyone who will listen that he discovered Van Dijk. Tosser.
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Dave the OAP
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I love all this revisionist shite from Brighton fans about Gus.
He was a bloody excellent manager who took us from being a poor crappy third and fourth division team to a very good championship winning side who got promotions, and relegations, but brought the feel good factor back to a very dark place we had been in.
Yes it went sour at the end but this sniping by some of our "fans" in the same way as you hear bollocks about dick knight, which again trying to undermine his achievements, is really disrespectful to his legacy.
He was a bloody excellent manager who took us from being a poor crappy third and fourth division team to a very good championship winning side who got promotions, and relegations, but brought the feel good factor back to a very dark place we had been in.
Yes it went sour at the end but this sniping by some of our "fans" in the same way as you hear bollocks about dick knight, which again trying to undermine his achievements, is really disrespectful to his legacy.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
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Come on, a Gus press interview made most of feel great, laugh, shout at the screen or want to throw something at it. Now Hughton is much calmer, considered and gentlemanly in all his press conferences but they are completely unwatchable for me
So yes I’d say Gus press conferences were a great watch.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Thimble Keegan
Remy LeBeau
This is pretty much how I recall it too. We were in for Van Dijk way before anyone else and Gus even went over to the Netherlands a couple of times to watch him, but Groningen simply would not sell.
We also signed Leo Ulloa in the same transfer window for about £2m and considering how close we came to automatic promotion, it would have been interesting to have seen what would have happened if we had landed Virgil too.
Albion & England forever.
Thimble Keegan
Rustington BHA
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
All I remember was someone (his agent, I think) saying very contemptuously "Virgil will NOT be going to Brighton."
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Due to political correctness Dick Van Dyke has changed his name to Penis Lorry Lesbian
Dirk Lehmann's Python
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Well you only get 1. So we'd have got 2/3 million quid out of Southampton probably
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Doesn't it depend on the clauses in contract?
Dirk Lehmann's Python
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No. If we sell him to Celtic, who then sell to Southampton, that would be the transaction any sell on would be applicable for, with our contract with celtic. We wouldn't get a sell on for every subsequent sale, no. So we wouldn't see any of the 80 mil agreed between Soton and Liverpool.
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Looks like we dodged a bullet based on tonight's performance. 