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But why would Brighton agree to a buy back clause? What do they have to gain from it? They nearly always get amazing value for their players No one was going to give us £35mil and be happy with a buy back clause unless it was a huge number £80/90mil

I'm not sure how we were the shadiest club when Villa, Everton and Chelsea were all in cohoots overinflating fees for their random youngsters? How do we know the club didn't plan for Minteh to play a season for a champions league club and then sell him for a profit?

You reckon? I thought we just did it for the hell of it

We were also in the Champions League with an unprecedented injury crisis and one of our most valuable players out with a gambling ban. To get 70mil for two players who haven't done much for us turned out to be excellent deals on paper

You don't seem to understand that we wouldn't have got as much money from Brighton or Forest had we put buy back clauses in them. There's a reason villa buy back their youngsters from Hull and Sheff Utd and not Prem teams

Can't help but feel you're playing Football Manager in your head here TCD We're not in a position to put buy back clauses to teams like Brighton for our players

But you're conveniently forgetting that we're now in a much stronger position to buy players we want while still having Joelinton. The window hasn't closed yet. Joelinton is a proven Premier league player, Minteh and Anderson aren't. Villa have signed unproven players from Juventus or their former youngsters. I imagine the plan was to sell Almiron and Wilson but no ones biting

We can't magically sell any of our academy players for over £10mil like Villa have

What are you suggesting as an alternative?

Minteh didn't want to go to Marseille though did he? Not sure how that was the clubs fault

We got a hell of a lot more money for Anderson and Minteh than Villa did for those two though?

How do we know Brighton would have been happy with us inserting a buy back clause? What benefit would it be for them

Their academy isn't terrible like ours has been for years though.

It's funny how we don't bat an eyelid these days at a team like Fulham just dropping £35mil on a player

Can't help but feel that would fit well into The Killers song I wanted Soule but he's gone to Roma

Other than his brother being there I can't see why Sean would move to Toronto

We're playing Burnley today apparently behind closed doors

To be fair I heard the reasons for that trip was to scout a player called "David", big physical specimen but his tackling seemed limited Judge for yourself I guess:

He gave me HBA/Mahrez vibes when I watched him

Thought Gonzalez looked great in the pre season games at SJP last summer

Is Kepa still on their books? They've got loads of keepers

The takeover announcement completely out of the blue was the biggest high for me All of a sudden Mike Ashley would be a distant memory with droves of people flocking to the stadium to celebrate

We were linked last summer I think

Wonder what the plan is for Ashby

Injured?