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Author Topic: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread  (Read 464281 times)

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #375 on: December 11, 2019, 11:27:17 AM »
Let’s get Hogan back from sturke

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #376 on: December 11, 2019, 11:27:19 AM »
We do have wealthy owners but there's nothing to suggest that they want to take the Man City route of buying success. There seems to be a much more sensible approach of stability and being patient. That would suggest appreciating that we're a newly promoted team and not setting a precedent of paying astronomical fees and wages that could be used against us in future negotiations.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #377 on: December 11, 2019, 11:27:53 AM »
I want to be as optimistic as the next guy in our search for a striker, but the notion that Edinson Cavani would say no to playing out his last years in Spain or California in favour of the tropical West Midlands is just laughable, to be honest.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #378 on: December 11, 2019, 12:08:21 PM »
We can do better.

Name him/them

Cavani, Batshuyahi, Barbosa, off the top of my head.

But the club employ a scouting network, I don't. They should be able to find a more exciting prospect somewhere on the planet considering the wealth at our disposal.

I should never have asked I suppose

To be fair, if Palace can sign Batshuyahi so can we.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #379 on: December 11, 2019, 12:09:51 PM »
There's no such team as Athletico Madrid and even if there was, they can't afford him, we can. LA Galaxy play in a pub league. Man United will probably have a new manager by January so who knows what players they will be after? Anyway Rashford seems to be doing well. They probably have other priorities. As for Juventus, they're already paying Ronaldo about a billion a week and Serie A clubs don't make as much as we do. Plus they seem to be doing okay without him.

But, nah. We have among the wealthiest owners in football. Let's just settle for some average Fulham player or a Rangers maniac who can't stay on the pitch and never scores in big games.

I applaud this post in full. Too many folk conditioned to the corner shop mentality of Ellis.
Nonsence.  There's ambition and then there fantasy.  Where we are right now the likes of Cavani fall firmly in the latter.

Yeah, well there's solutions to our goalscoring woes and then there's Neil Maupay.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #380 on: December 11, 2019, 12:11:10 PM »
You don't think Maupay would have been a better option than Wesley?

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #381 on: December 11, 2019, 12:56:05 PM »
Chelsea, apparently, have £150m to spend on strikers so....

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #382 on: December 11, 2019, 01:23:13 PM »
You don't think Maupay would have been a better option than Wesley?

Agreed - all the clamour for him and I think he has been almost unnoticeable in an average Brighton team. Cannot see anything better than Wesley in Maupay

Mitrovic - would give us some steel
Bowen - would give us some mobility
Batshuyahi - certainly knows the league and maybe a loan to buy deal?


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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #383 on: December 11, 2019, 01:28:10 PM »
Maupay is a much, much better player than Wesley.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #384 on: December 11, 2019, 01:34:54 PM »
Maupay is a much, much better player than Wesley.
Chalk and cheese.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #385 on: December 11, 2019, 01:36:51 PM »
Maupay is a much, much better player than Wesley.
Chalk and cheese.
Shit and Shinola

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #386 on: December 11, 2019, 01:54:45 PM »
Britt Assombalonga?

Jesus Christ on a shiny bike.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #387 on: December 11, 2019, 02:15:34 PM »
For fuck sake how has the conversation gone down from Grabban and Mitrovic, to be clear Assombalonga is a terrible player who should never be mentioned in connection to a club owned by 2 billionaires.  Oh and Dack would be shit in the premier league as well.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #388 on: December 11, 2019, 02:22:15 PM »
For fuck sake how has the conversation gone down from Grabban and Mitrovic, to be clear Assombalonga is a terrible player who should never be mentioned in connection to a club owned by 2 billionaires.  Oh and Dack would be shit in the premier league as well.

Altidore it is then? ;D

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #389 on: December 11, 2019, 02:27:24 PM »
Maupay is a much, much better player than Wesley.
I'm with Risso.  Although I probably would have added in an extra 'much'

 


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