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He’s a decent player, wouldn’t be a bad signing at the right price. He’s not exactly a world beater but we could do worse.

Yeah slightly more recent than I thought, but the basic principle is the same, he did his ACL for a second time after that and I don’t think he’s been the same since.

4/5 years ago I’d have agreed with you but he got a bad injury and I don’t think he’s ever been the same since.

Not you as an individual ffs!

They do, and obviously we'll have to aswell, but that wasn't the point being being made. As the original post said, you can't praise Brighton for what they do and then moan about us doing it. That they don't only do that was never up for debate.

He hadn't responded when I started writing. 8 players in the last 4 years have cost them what we bid for Dibling or more, so it's very much something they do.

That's his point. They don't pay £60m on proven players, they gamble on promising players in the £30m bracket.

Well it depends what the answer to the first bid is in terms of why it's turned down. Did they just want more money in general? More up front? A sell on clause? More easily achievable add ons? All of the above? You can't prepare a changed bid without knowing what changes are being proposed...

Boring I know, but that's not really true. We're not likely to have offered £27m up front and then just change it to £30m up front or whatever. It's quite likely that they'll restructure the entire bid, proposing new up front payments, different clauses and incentives etc. Multi million pound...

It wasn't sustained over half a season though so it was form. We scored 14 goals in a 6 game run just after Moyes took over but then only scored 13 in the last 12 games.

Absolutely, it's undoubtedly a risk. Personally I feel like this is pretty much the ideal time to take risks, we've got a rare chance to have a big rebuild and if we don't put the foundations in place for it now you'd wonder if we ever will. There has to be a balance, and if we had Barry, Aznou...

That's it for me, £35/40m is an absolutely obscene amount of money in normal terms, but the way the football market is going that's just a normal fee these days. We'd do well to significantly improve the squad in the long term without buying anyone for £30m+, it's possible but you've really got...

Players who are already top quality won't come here, players who are just bog standard 'PL proven' don't move the dial forward, if we want to actually get better over the long run then this is the type of deal we have to do. It's a risk of course, but who wouldn't be? Having a clear vision and...

I mean obviously we need end product to some extent, everybody does at the end of the day. I don't really agree with the 'we need somebody who's going to produce right now' shouts though. We're obviously not going to immediately gatecrash the top 4, and as long as we add a a few more decent...

No 100%, like I said, i'm not saying it's a bad thing not to know much about a player, or even never to have heard of them, there are loads of players I couldn't tell you anything about and wouldn't recognise if I tripped over them. My point was just that you have quite literally never heard of...

It certainly makes you that some people clearly post stuff without any real idea whether it's valid or not. Absolutely no issue at all with people not being up on their football knowledge but if you've never heard of a Premier League player who played against us 3 times last year and was being...

Always makes me laugh that one. ‘Oh he’ll go there because they’ve got another player from the same country’, they might absolutely despise eachother!

What happened in the 22 minutes between these posts to make you do a complete 180 on what you think we should do?!

At least half a dozen clubs could say ‘they want HOW MUCH for branthwaite?!’ after watching him against them last season. Young players sometimes don’t have great games, who knew.

From the strong links we’ve seen (Doak, kubo, Fofana, mcatee, dibling, diao, conceicao) it seems fairly obvious that we want a young, direct, wide player who is particularly strong at carrying the ball forward. It seems that our budget is somewhere around the £30m mark. As strategies go, it’s...