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Post by RedandWhite90 on Aug 11, 2023 12:06:55 GMT
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Post by FullerMagic on Aug 11, 2023 12:11:54 GMT
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Post by smiler_andy on Aug 11, 2023 12:28:59 GMT
That’s quite a chunk of change. It’ll be interesting to see if they can replace those players. Cucurella - Signed Estupiñán for 1/3 of the price last summer and easily a better player. Caicedo & MacAllister - Dahoud for a free from Dortmund a good replacement with vast experience at 27. Moder played a lot last season before injury but not same level as the two. Probably need another signing. Yasin Ayari could be a surprise breakthrough. Bissouma - Replaced last summer with Caicedo / MacAllister. = ££££. Trossard - Enciso came on the scene after January and looks a real prospect and will have a serious part to play, Mitoma also seemingly fit in with ease. Simon Agingra another who could have a breakthrough season. Sanchez - Became 2nd choice for De Zerbi back end of season for Steele, signed a young Belgian Verbruggen from Anderlecht who could be a starter or revert back to Steele if he's not ready. Burn - Replaced by Colwill last season who will be a big miss. Have 4 options at CB, Dunk, Webster, Igor, Van Hecke. Igor the left footed replacement for Colwill, big shoes to fill. Maupay - Didn't take much to replace. Ferguson, Pedro better players. Ben White sold for 50m+, Lamptey, Gross played RB too Veltman been a solid option there. Don't think Brighton will do as well as last season with Europe + losing 3 top players. 9-13th most likely but could be closer to top half again with some more additions. The biggest danger for Brighton is keeping hold of their recruitment team. People with more money may try and lure them away which happened to Southampton (See Le Tissier and Simon Jordan at around 7min onwards)
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Post by jokker on Aug 11, 2023 12:46:56 GMT
And they're going to easily treble the money they spent on Estupinan in the next 12 months. The recruitment team that Tony Bloom has brought in, has essentially secured the club's future for many, many years. He's even made money on his manager's! At some point they'll bring in a manager who'll be eager to spend all that money. Give the job to Gary Rowett - he'll spend it all within a week...
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Post by The battheader chronicles on Aug 11, 2023 12:51:59 GMT
And they're going to easily treble the money they spent on Estupinan in the next 12 months. The recruitment team that Tony Bloom has brought in, has essentially secured the club's future for many, many years. He's even made money on his manager's! At some point they'll bring in a manager who'll be eager to spend all that money. Give the job to Gary Rowett - he'll spend it all within a week... Benik Afobe for £70m anyone 😂
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2023 12:53:17 GMT
111 million quid!
Looks a tidy decent player on the highlights on the telly but not someone who dominates the game
What would a dominant player like a Roy Keane or a Bryan Robson be worth these days !
A massive amount of money presumably.
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Post by Gob Bluth on Aug 11, 2023 13:08:06 GMT
HMRC will be loving this.
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Post by jamerg on Aug 11, 2023 13:13:26 GMT
He is reportedly insistent that he’ll only go to Chelsea, not Liverpool.
If so, why?
Presumably the financials are the same, Liverpool is a more recently successful club, probably not a lot in it in terms of their prospects for this season, both managers seem equally attractive.
Is it just a London thing?
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Post by flea79 on Aug 11, 2023 13:17:23 GMT
HMRC will be loving this. not as much as that melt who comes on here crowing about FFP, the Bristol fan i think he is
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Aug 11, 2023 14:01:11 GMT
I said towards the end of last season that Brighton will have a shorter run in the Premier League than Stoke and that they might even be fighting relegation this season. That looks even more likely now. People were saying exactly the same thing last season when they'd sold their star players, they then went on to have their highest finish. They've peaked now and massively punched above their weight last season. They won't keep getting it right and have European football to contend with this season too.
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Post by potter25 on Aug 11, 2023 14:04:17 GMT
He’d be better off at Brighton than chelsea
European football and Chelsea are a basket case club
I think he’d fit in at Liverpool very well
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Post by thehoof on Aug 11, 2023 14:33:20 GMT
He is reportedly insistent that he’ll only go to Chelsea, not Liverpool. If so, why? Presumably the financials are the same, Liverpool is a more recently successful club, probably not a lot in it in terms of their prospects for this season, both managers seem equally attractive. Is it just a London thing? More recently successful? Chelsea have won the Champions League more recently than Liverpool, and lost both the League Cup and FA Cup on penalties to the Mud Crawlers. I wouldn’t say that there’s much between them.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Aug 11, 2023 15:15:19 GMT
both managers seem equally attractive.
Come off it, Poch is waaay hotter!
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Aug 11, 2023 17:17:43 GMT
Yes mate the blokes a bullshitter. We all know he's a very good manager but the bloke is an absolute weapon and a hypocrite.
The market in 2023 is very different for transfer fees compared to 2016 though (for the big clubs at least, probably hasn't changed so much in the Championship).
And he hasn't signed Caicedo yet, it may not happen if his heart is set on Chelsea (maybe because of Poch? and London? not exactly the best time to be joining them though given recent seasons).
But 110m for a player signed for 4.5m just two years ago is absolutely insane!
Totally agree with the change in market mate 👍 It's a tough one really because they are both really good managers aren't they. I havnt changed my stance on Klopp though he is a bullshitting hypocrite 🤣 Brighton are brilliant at what they do and I wish nothing but the best for them and their supporters. It wasn't so long ago that they were almost out of business really so it has been a fantastic turnaround.
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Post by cobhamstokey on Aug 14, 2023 6:37:02 GMT
Obscene amount for a player. He’s looked decent when I have seen him but haven’t seen enough of him to really comment likewise the player from Southampton who I hadn’t even heard of. That price tag is going to put a hell of a lot of pressure on him from the start. Hopefully he’ll go down the same route as Cuccurella. I saw where they’d given 200m+ in fees to Brighton alone. There’s something I really dislike about Chelsea in a way I don’t re other clubs. I used to like them in the days of Dixon and Speedie but there’s no more club responsible for the current us and them divide in football than them. It’ll never happen but one day I’d love to see them financially implode.
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Post by salopstick on Aug 14, 2023 8:05:10 GMT
bang average prem players are now in the 20-40 million bracket
these prices are ridiculous now and its just adding a zero on the end of fees for the sake of it
it wont be long before these south american countries are adding a zero on the end of these prospects fee either just making everything go up
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Post by moon on Aug 14, 2023 9:51:10 GMT
It looks like Independiente del Valle included a 20% sell-on clause when they sold him back in 2021, happy days for them? or will they feel they should've asked for a much bigger fee in the first place. Excellent bit of business from Brighton.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Aug 14, 2023 12:25:39 GMT
It's a huge test of their recruitment team now. It's one thing going through the process once and finding these gems, selling them on for a huge profit but it's another thing entirely in trying to replace them a second time around. This is where most teams come unstuck at PL level and it's fair to say that when this happened to Southampton it was the beginning of the end. They lost a number of players to the big 6 over a 12-18 month period and never recovered. I'll watch with great interest. Makes you wonder why Chelsea didn't simply save themselves a £100 mil! 🫢
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Post by theonlooker on Aug 14, 2023 12:28:58 GMT
It's a huge test of their recruitment team now. It's one thing going through the process once and finding these gems, selling them on for a huge profit but it's another thing entirely in trying to replace them a second time around. This is where most teams come unstuck at PL level and it's fair to say that when this happened to Southampton it was the beginning of the end. They lost a number of players to the big 6 over a 12-18 month period and never recovered. I'll watch with great interest. Makes you wonder why Chelsea didn't simply save themselves a £100 mil! 🫢 It will be interesting to see how he gets on.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Aug 14, 2023 12:31:07 GMT
Makes you wonder why Chelsea didn't simply save themselves a £100 mil! 🫢 It will be interesting to see how he gets on. And how much Brighton ultimately sell him for! 😁
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Post by andystokey on Aug 14, 2023 12:38:39 GMT
It will be interesting to see how he gets on. And how much Brighton ultimately sell him for! 😁 Chelsea have a history of buying players at the top of their value though don't they? Even so much they sold Lukaku for £28m and then bought him back for £98m.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Aug 14, 2023 13:14:35 GMT
And how much Brighton ultimately sell him for! 😁 Chelsea have a history of buying players at the top of their value though don't they? Even so much they sold Lukaku for £28m and then bought him back for £98m. Oh indeed, I don't know why they don't just buy the Brighton recruitment team, it would save them a fortune in the long run!
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Post by Marc01 on Aug 14, 2023 18:26:38 GMT
It looks like Independiente del Valle included a 20% sell-on clause when they sold him back in 2021, happy days for them? or will they feel they should've asked for a much bigger fee in the first place. Excellent bit of business from Brighton. Deal completed. Dario Gradi length contract. £115m with add ons. That could be the most profitable sell on ever? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66504891
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Post by st3mark on Aug 14, 2023 18:58:48 GMT
45 Premier league appearances is long enough to prove you're worth £115million. Jesus wept.
How are Chelsea still getting away with this spending?
Spreading it out over large contracts doesn't really account for it when you're doing it with that many players for such large fees. It's corrupt.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Aug 14, 2023 19:05:30 GMT
£115 million on an 8 year contract. What on earth is going on?
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Post by theonlooker on Aug 14, 2023 19:09:42 GMT
£115 million on an 8 year contract. What on earth is going on? It's called taking the piss out of FFP.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Aug 14, 2023 19:11:54 GMT
£115 million on an 8 year contract. What on earth is going on? It's called taking the piss out of FFP. Yeh I know but how? I don’t understand how it works by doing it
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Post by theonlooker on Aug 14, 2023 19:22:06 GMT
It's called taking the piss out of FFP. Yeh I know but how? I don’t understand how it works by doing it Spread the fee over 8 years instead of the normal 4 or 5, therefore less value against the books each season. That and they've pulled a Houdini trick of getting a fortune for their 'shit'.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Aug 14, 2023 19:31:41 GMT
Yeh I know but how? I don’t understand how it works by doing it Spread the fee over 8 years instead of the normal 4 or 5, therefore less value against the books each season. That and they've pulled a Houdini trick of getting a fortune for their 'shit'. Are any other clubs doing it? I’m not sure they are, that’s why I see it as more than a bit risky. There must be a reason why others aren’t doing it or am I being a bit daft?
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Post by northernstokie on Aug 14, 2023 19:38:19 GMT
Spread the fee over 8 years instead of the normal 4 or 5, therefore less value against the books each season. That and they've pulled a Houdini trick of getting a fortune for their 'shit'. Are any other clubs doing it? I’m not sure they are, that’s why I see it as more than a bit risky. There must be a reason why others aren’t doing it or am I being a bit daft? Prob because if they buy a load of flops they are stuck with them for 8 years. Imagine if we gave all 8 year Contracts on that spending spree. We would still be stuck with them
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