joeyt

I'd like to know what alternatives you're suggesting? People keep saying this but we don't have the youngsters Villa and Chelsea have to sell

Yessss

Why would Brighton agree to that?

The whole point is we don't have a backlog of options like that because the academy has been on its knees for decades The comparison to Real Madrid is completely pointless

You were criticising us for being too shady the other day. What other loopholes could we have done? And you wanted us to sign more players to make a profit but also spend less money in previous windows? You said we should buy more players to make a profit but also said the plan can't have been to sell Minteh for profit? You say all this like it's really obvious when you're contradicting yourself all the time or like you're playing a video game

What are you suggesting would have been a better plan? We can't magically have sold our academy youngsters for £20mil like Villa

Bit of a whopper this lad

Any lowlights kicking about of this?

Correct. No idea what he's doing up here

Which former England player has just walked past me in town?

I think Son's legs have gone and isn't the same player he once was

Could be a ploy to get his son back to us

There's still 6 weeks left of the transfer window to go

Again, Villa selling their youngsters to Hull and Sheff Utd is not the same as us selling to Brighton

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