Reddish-Blue 2,666 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 3 hours ago, Strike said: He's their third choice behind Steele and Verbruggen That sounds pretty concerning and he's not even part of the Brighton pre-season tour squad. Steele is 32 and hardly an amazing goalkeeper. We should have tested out Brentford with a bid for Raya but now he is being linked with Bayern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,763 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 1 minute ago, Reddish-Blue said: That sounds pretty concerning and he's not even part of the Brighton pre-season tour squad. Steele is 32 and hardly an amazing goalkeeper. We should have tested out Brentford with a bid for Raya but now he is being linked with Bayern. Yup, don't understand the delay in signing a GK? The market is becoming thin now. Any decent keeper will consider coming here even as GK 2 since they'd back themselves to dislodge Kepa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,763 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 2 hours ago, NikkiCFC said: So why would we want him? Since the club is clearly looking for GK2 and someone who is cheap. And since it seems to be a disagreement with the manager that has seen him drop down the order in Brighton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,763 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 xPetrCechx 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhsc 1,139 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 8 minutes ago, Strike said: That would be a weird one... Strasbourg need to be signing up these sort of players, not us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbluewillie 1,974 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 10 minutes ago, Strike said: Any chance we can sign players with pronounceable surnames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundalf 806 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 19 minutes ago, Mhsc said: That would be a weird one... Strasbourg need to be signing up these sort of players, not us. Probably bought for cheap and loned to them afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegetable 830 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 3 minutes ago, Gundalf said: Probably bought for cheap and loned to them afterwards. Perhaps, but isn't the point of owning satellite club not spending the FFP money of main club? Meanwhile Chelsea is rumored to be after Strasbourg-tier players all the time. It's also possible it's just same scouting staff, so they are "Chelsea" in media as it surely clicks better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 19,256 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 Signing more players for our feeder club than our primary one… 🤦♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milka 3,407 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 47 minutes ago, Strike said: Can we stop signing only kids which we will send on loan and possibly in 2-3 years they will be ready (some of them) . Pochettino clearly showed that he wants experience in the squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundalf 806 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Vegetable said: Perhaps, but isn't the point of owning satellite club not spending the FFP money of main club? Meanwhile Chelsea is rumored to be after Strasbourg-tier players all the time. It's also possible it's just same scouting staff, so they are "Chelsea" in media as it surely clicks better. Well basically these transfers are investments for the future. If we buy him now for lets say 10m, loan him for 1-2 years, he performs well, and his value will go up. If Strasbourg would sign him now for these 10m, no way they could sell him to us for these 10m without having UEFA all over our arses. So basically the idea behind this is that we could get a player that is worth for example 30m for the 10 we initially paid. And then we can decide whether we wanna use him in the squad or sell him elsewhere to make some profit. Its nothing new really. Roman did the same with Vitesse and his famous loan army. Edited July 29, 2023 by Gundalf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundalf 806 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 (edited) 1 minute ago, milka said: Can we stop signing only kids which we will send on loan and possibly in 2-3 years they will be ready (some of them) . Pochettino clearly showed that he wants experience in the squad. So no Caicedo? Hes a kid himself with only 1 year of PL football. Angelo is far more experienced than Lavia e.g Edited July 29, 2023 by Gundalf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundalf 806 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 How much have we actually spent this window on youngsters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 19,256 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 God help us if this kid is the Caicedo alternative. I’m seeing now that we’ve agreed a deal of over £20m for him and that’s pretty pricey for someone who would go straight to Strasbourg, isn’t it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vytis33 1,376 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundalf 806 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundalf 806 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Pizy said: God help us if this kid is the Caicedo alternative. I’m seeing now that we’ve agreed a deal of over £20m for him and that’s pretty pricey for someone who would go straight to Strasbourg, isn’t it? Same age as Lavia and 1/3 the price 😂 Edited July 29, 2023 by Gundalf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegetable 830 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 Yeah, the previous loan army was at least cheap-ish/free, that made a return on them a lot of easier. Now we seem to hoard very hit or miss players for prices that are actually beyond possibilities of most clubs in the game… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,085 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 11 hours ago, Gundalf said: Sell Sterling and get him in 😏 Sell Sterling and go for Dembele before the 31st July. bigbluewillie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundalf 806 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 Some journo on Twitter claiming this guy was Brightons replacement for Caicedo that De Zerbi mentioned 😂 Not sure if trolling but it would be too funny if true 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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