The College Dropout

Second point. It’s been 2.5 years now. And others are saying it and pushing it. There’s no indication our ownership have any desire to change the status quo or circumvent it. We might need to sell a couple purples and finish 11th before that happens.

No need for the emotional outbursts and insults. You would talk to me nicely IRL so behave yourself behind that screen.

I think the Bruno clause explains the January activity. As even if we finished in wurope we still would’ve needed to sell and we didn’t know at the time we could shift Minteh for £30m+. We’ve been fortunate with the Minteh situation. If not him we would’ve had to sell a purple.

All the player wages for Hendrick and the like won’t save us the 10s of millions we need. We need a consistent revenue close to Spurs. We can’t do that ‘naturally’. until then we’ll have to sell players we don’t want to sell to be PSR compliant. me and @r0cafella have been debating if PIF see us as a proper key sportswaahing exercise. They don’t seem to be trying that hard to destroy the cartel rules like others in the league.

Aye. Some people seem to think the first teenager window under new ownership ‘drops off’ now. It’s not the case as you’ve pointed out. there was a lot of ‘the club would never let this happen’ talk yesterday. But while the rules are the way they are this is the new normal.

Aye. I was saying Villa fucked up having to sell Luiz for cheap. It’s the same for having to sell Minteh now without a buy back. Im ok with the Anderson deal though. In retrospect I do think Plan A was selling Bruno with the release clause. This was the plan from January. Otherwise it doesn’t make sense not selling Tripps and co. when we had the chance. Selling Minteh and some others is the plan B. But there’s no way the club could’ve planned to sell Minteh specifically in August or Jan. he’s progressed faster than expected. I think it’s an Ok plan B.

That last point seems inevitable. IMO the club should do more to warm up the fanbase to that fact.

Kaka can’t say anything that isn’t a ringing endorsement of the clubs management so it’s not worth debating with him.

By young player I’m thinking 20 and under and excluding £28m signings. out of Minteh, Miley and the other kids. Minteh has shown the most potential so far. Us selling Minteh is worse than Chelsea selling Hall to us. We laughed at them.

Brighton aren’t idiots.

We’ve sold the best young player in Minteh. Im fine with Anderson leaving mind. Probably for the best for him too.

I think we’ll need to continue to trade to buy new players. But at least we can do it at our own pace.

I think they thought we could get £40m odd from Wilson, Anderson, Almiron, Trippier and co. The market for older players is slow I guess. It’s younger players that are moving quickly. Im ok with Anderson leaving, hurt that Minteh has left. Mostly because there’s a few lads ahead of them that I would rather leave. Truthfully, they may need to leave anyway to fund transfers.

I think it’s a favour. We’ll buy someone off them in the next accounting period imo.

I’m ok with this one as I don’t think he’s going to be good enough to hold down a regular place and we have numbers in midfield. The biggest issue is we have 3-5 players that could fetch similar money who are likely on bigger wages and have definitely maxed out their value (Longstaff, Almiron, Murphy, Trippier, Wilson). Anderson’s value could steal increase over time. The others will only decrease. We’ll probably have to sell most of those to fund new transfers anyway.

Oh we did need more money to meet the FFP budget. £40m odd. Yeh there’s been some mistakes.

Evidently - we did need to sell for FFP reasons. Why take the risk and spend 30m now? If he’s the real deal they can get him for 70-80m in a year or two. And they’ve got Salah, Szob, Elliott as left footed attackers. Points deduction is a non starter. CL spots are usually decided by 1-3 points.

If not Minteh - it’s surely them, no? think maybe the Elanga stuff was ‘crazy stuff’

Aye seems that way. Unless PIF suddenly change their approach or we have a constrained summer.

No you didn’t. You spoke about PSR. We might need to sell Bruno next summer for PSR reasons. It won’t be because we don’t need him or think we can do better. Eddie Howe himself said he didn’t want to sell ASM for football reasons but cos of FFP we needed to sell. Thats easy enough for him, why can’t you say it? This back and forth is in bad faith from you. Enjoy your evening.

Ultimately - I believe the tweet and the tweet quoted. We are reluctantly selling Minteh. Everything suggests he’s going to be a baller. But if not him we would need to sell a proven baller for us. We’ve done the best we can in a bad situation. We’ve left it too close for comfort and could’ve managed it better. BTW folks - unless we get a raft of new sponsors or suddenly find buyers for all the squad players. We’ll almost certainly need to sell next season to just comply. We better hope there’s a market for Joe Willock

Agreed. As we stand this is the best scenario. But this should’ve been managed better from get-go. You didn’t answer my question. Do you think the club are buying selling hi for footballing reasons? Obviously the club are fine with selling him for PSR reasons- that is what they are doing. It’s better than the alternatives. If we had to sell Gordon or take a points deduction the club would also be fine with that. That doesn’t make it an optimal decision.

I’m not negative. This clearly isn’t the worst case scenario. Taking points deductions or selling Isak or someone would’ve been far worse. I’ve said this repeatedly. One or two have said this is ‘gross mismanagent’ or similar and I’ve disagreed. But at the same token. We’ve made a few bad calls and miscalculations. And ultimately we’ve been a bit lucky. If not Minteh, it would’ve had to be Gordon or someone. That’s both a relief and scary.

I mean. They will have revenue forecasts. Revenues are fairly easy to predict in January to within £10m or so. They 100% knew we were likely to breach FFP and needed to sell in January. That’s why we had all of those bids. The most sensible answer is they thought we could sell a non purple by June. And they ended up being right. But it was someone at the Lower end of their potential value (Minteh) rather than the highest (Wilson, Trippier etc.)

Who views the club with the most negative stance? Most are saying it’s the best worst case scenario.