[Albion] Yankuba Minteh SINGS on 5 year contract

[pigmanovich]

What a lovely reply. Look it up yourself.

Yours was condescending? Obviously wages are often an issue at this level but we signed Pedro last season and he was PL ready so clearly it’s possible to thread the needle. Sounds like KDH was doable financially too and he would have gone straight into the first team.

 

[ewe2]

Can’t see us spending £30m on him…..

I spoke too soon…..!

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Fear ye not. If you want depths, Coldplay are on soon.

 

[zefarelly]

My hope is, if we’re prepared to pay £33m for a 19 year old, we’re willing to spend big for a PL ready player. Not stupid money, mind, but big all the same.

I'm thinking exactly the opposite. . . . TB knows our books are good

He'll wait until most other clubs shit the bed, and all the spare company hotel beds . . . Then pounce when they're in extreme panic sweaty crevice mode.

 

[Bozza]

Makes sense for us to get this into the accounts this month too. We have a massive surplus this season and if we signed him in July then on our three year rolling cycle it could really hurt us in years to come. I suspect that was also why we wanted KDH done asap.

Yes and no.

Tackling "no" first: The whole transfer fee won't sit in the 2023-24 accounts, it will only be c£6.5m, assuming a five-year contract. It's useful to get something into this year whilst we can, but one deal for £33m isn't going to make much difference.

Yes: Newcastle are in fire sale mode, looking to get as much in as they need to before midnight tomorrow. It could be the case that if we didn't strike a deal for
Minteh now, the opportunity may no longer be available come 1st July. Other player(s) may have been shifted to get them out of the shit.

 

[pigmanovich]

I'm thinking exactly the opposite. . . . TB knows our books are good

He'll wait until most other clubs shit the bed, and all the spare company hotel beds . . . Then pounce when they're in extreme panic sweaty crevice mode.

Many of us expected that that moment would be this mini transfer window, ending June 30, but it seems Minteh will be the sole signing of this period. Which is still something, of course!

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Very pleased with this.

Surprised by the lack of Eredivisie criticism on here though?!

There was plenty earlier in the thread.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

There was plenty earlier in the thread.

Ahh, not gone back to the beginning, thought there must be!

 

[Justice]

With the missing out to Chelsea for KDH it’s worth noting that we have beaten both Forest and Everton to Minteh.
Shows that there is a pecking order and whilst we aren’t at the top of it we aren’t at the bottom of the Premier League one either.
Our reputation for developing talent also plays a part of course.

Both of those mentioned clubs haven’t got a pot to piss in.

 

[Safe.]

Curious if they'd be tempted by a bid for livramento too.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Curious if they'd be tempted by a bid for livramento too.

They paid quite a lot for him not long ago so probably wouldn’t make any meaningful profit

 

[macbeth]

please can we bear in mind, since we’ve had the whole ‘good players don’t want to come here’ discussion recently, that minteh has, by all accounts, rejected lyon, a massive club, with multiple french titles and serial european regulars, to come here

 

[Zeberdi]

please can we bear in mind, since we’ve had the whole ‘good players don’t want to come here’ discussion recently, that minteh has, by all accounts, rejected lyon, a massive club, with multiple french titles and serial european regulars, to come here

He rejected Lyon because he wanted to stay with a Premier League club not because he wanted to come to Brighton particularly - He would have been happy to stay with Newcastle and play at St James’ Park or go to Everton apparently.

(edited for clarity)

 

[Machiavelli]

please can we bear in mind, since we’ve had the whole ‘good players don’t want to come here’ discussion recently, that minteh has, by all accounts, rejected lyon, a massive club, with multiple french titles and serial european regulars, to come here

Yes, but can't I have an ENORMOUS MOAN about what the club are up to, and insist that they should pay attention to the BRILLIANT IDEA that I've got

 

[Justice]

please can we bear in mind, since we’ve had the whole ‘good players don’t want to come here’ discussion recently, that minteh has, by all accounts, rejected lyon, a massive club, with multiple french titles and serial european regulars, to come here

That discussion is about the more experienced players who would slot straight into the first team.

 

[southstandandy]

Surely the figure being quoted is just a joke?

 

[pigmanovich]

Surely the figure being quoted is just a joke?

The Argus says it’s £30m: https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/24420319.brighon-expected-complete-yankuba-minteh-deal/

 

[macbeth]

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He rejected Lyon because he wanted to stay in the Premier League not because he wanted to come to Brighton - He would have been happy to stay at St James’ Park or go to Everton too apparently.

that doesn’t disprove any of what i said. if he’s rejected a very big and established european club to come here then that is what it is and that was my point

 

[Bozza]

He rejected Lyon because he wanted to stay in the Premier League not because he wanted to come to Brighton - He would have been happy to stay at St James’ Park or go to Everton too apparently.

Can you stay somewhere you've never been?

 

[Weststander]

that

that doesn’t disprove any of what i said. if he’s rejected a very big and established european club to come here then that is what it is and that was my point

Genuine question. Are we far bigger payers than Lyon?