Signed for peanuts ( £2m from Plymouth as he's in the last year of his contract and had just recovered from a serious injury.)
There's a big sell on clause ( 25% I believe) and unlikely he would go somewhere as no2.
Good keeper though.
We always seem to land in that weird middle ground where we are somehow used to encourage others to hurry up for good signings and simultaneously a potential destination for cast offs and deadwood
There’s a logical flaw here. To play a low block you need fast players on the counter to make it effective:
Fact is, counter attacking football is one of the most effective styles around at the moment.
That would be grim and not the outcome we were hoping for.
Sure O'Brien has done fantastically well but he's not a FB and as a consequence this limits our options offensively.
This is exacerbated by Mykolenko on the other flank
O'Riley is a really talented player - lovely eye for a clever pass in the final third, but the perception from Brighton fans is that he's not quick enough and TBF they've seen far more of him this season than I have.
I saw the stuff he said...
An awful lot of people still seem to struggle with this simple piece of information. We’re apparently PSR compliant, but little room for error. “But we were going to spend 30 million on Delap” the more likely answer to that, is that if he’d...
If we gave Keane a one year, 30kpw contract as fourth choice, with an option for a second year if we choose I’d say a lot has changed since we gave him a five year contract at 80kpw or whatever ridiculous thing we did give him
Big final payday...