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I don't want loans for Kepa that don't include an obligation to buy, this is not a fuckin charity, if anyone wants him they commit to buy him. Losing him without guaranteed cash just weakens us. De Gea is the obvious answer for Real Madrid isn't he?

Pretty sure this was posted before but worth a reminder...

Tyler Adams is an interesting one, I guess we gain squad depth, some American-fan appeal, and a £20m asset that could become a £50m asset given the chance to play in a different system which will let him show his quality better. Lots of people reporting that he is under-appreciated because of the system/club he is playing in and we will be surprised by him. I have a lot of faith in our current scouts/directors so I'm inclined to believe he will win over the fanbase and prove to be a very astute signing at a measly £20m, he is not a sexy signing but as a pure DM and foil for Enzo? He could be an important jigsaw piece.

Only Matt Law reported it, Jacob Steinberg repeated it and credited Matt with the news i.e. it is just Matt reporting it. The guy who knows nothing. He is a PR mouth piece, journalist for hire that prints whatever you pay him to print. Doesn't have any connection to the club, staff or players anymore, Mount was his last inside source as he was being paid by Mount via his PR agency to report favourably on him and negatively on the club's contract stance. 100% ignore. He is out for revenge for being cut out.

Don't really believe Bayern or Liverpool are going to spend £90m+ on Caicedo, only club entering the race that would worry me is City who might bid £90m+ and suddenly seal a deal if they fancy it.

He is the least reliable by far. Hasn't known anything since the takeover, aside from what Mount's camp tell him

Must be making a switch to 4-3-3 because of Nkunku’s injury surely, otherwise we are moving for way too many CMs. If we are, maybe we are looking at Enzo, Caicedo, Lavia, Santos and Adams with Ugo out on loan and possible cashing in on Gallagher?

Do we have an award for the worst post of the year? How do I nominate?

Who tf is making up nonsense like this, as if Eghbali is qualified to decide Vlahovic is good or not, clearly that is PW/LS/Poch's remit - probably 1 or more of them is not convinced, and all have to approve to do it.

So Jackson didn't take the cursed 9 shirt, good...

Should never have been playing on that pitch, club really has not learnt to protect its assets.

Absolutely nothing alike and we've said no to him due to his known bad attitude. No club in all of Europe after him.

IF Caicedo gets over the line I will become a conspiracy theorist - probably the deal has been made for some time, quietly between directors and not shared beyond: 1. We have not gone and spent shit loads on other top CM options, we perhaps knew all along this was happening from the negotiations we did weeks ago, as long as we went along with the sequence of events required 2. Brighton would demand we keep it under wraps, ala Gvardiol and many other transfers we've seen before, to stop them getting fleeced by clubs who know they've got ~£90m-£100m coming in 3. Brighton when they've secured all players (for whom we must not compete - probably this is why we backed away from Kudus move) sell him for a fee we've already agreed with them in the region mentioned above 4. That price was only agreeable under basis we solve their Sanchez situation favourably as well?

I think his acceleration from a dead stop doesn’t look great but his pace is faster than many we’ve had play CB. Excited for him but assuming Thiago holds down the top spot for now tbh.

Hope Poch does not repeat the Dortmund lineup

From the Brighton forum, lots of people with views like this. I am excited for him tbh. 100% going to beat Kepa to be our main goalie.

Got about 50,000 Brighton fans volunteering to personally drive him up to us, about an hours drive up to Cobham it is, they are thrilled.

£25m! Brighton fans were dreaming of 10! If we see a breakthrough in the Caicedo deal where we add 5/10m on and it is agreed then gonna be pretty sus.

Two more signings = Caicedo + Kudus/Olise and we're done I guess, which to be fair would be an amazing bit of squad building over 2 windows. Have a feeling the club is going to just crack and buy Caicedo when Poch says that neither Santos or Ugo is ready to start next to Enzo and he's going to play Gallagher instead.

Here's the tweet ^. Slightly concerned he is a known hot head. But almost definitely a Kepa upgrade.

He is supposed to be Juventus fan, chose them over many other options. That said, Lukaku said the same about us, and then Inter, and then us, and then Inter... So, you know, we'll see what happens.

Two hopes: 1. he is going through a gruelling fitness regime, might be fatigued AF and behind the others for fitness but with time he would get there and 2. if we sign a proper DM maybe we see a better Enzo. But yeah, I'm nervous.

He's recovering from a serious hamstring problem, but for £35m... yeah I'm probably in for £35m. Kudus is a no brainer though fmpov kind of confused no one has moved on him already.

I like Reece for lots of reasons but Malo just looks better in Poch's system imo. I have felt for a while that Reece looks world class as a wing back and somewhere between good and very good as a right back depending on the day. Malo just looks sensational. Ironically Reece probably needs some time to grow and learn as he spent so long in his career now playing in a 3 ATB system. I would also like to see Gusto play for the sake of having a settled backline that doesn't have players dropping out to injury all the time. Harsh on Reece but his injury record is what it is and slowly working his way into the team feels like the right thing to me, would also like to see him tried in different positions like we've done with Maatsen.