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Found it, re-uploaded here:

Think it got taken down. Somebody else reuploaded it somewhere. I'll try and find it mate as I might still have it on computer.

My opinion on this whole thing is that the club have been stung massively by FFP and that has led a significant fallout, contributing to the departure of A&M, and now the club has made the decision to tilt the recruitment model more towards the Brighton approach (recruit broader and with aggressive buy and sell to navigate FFP) as the best way to progress the club forward while we grow bigger revenue streams. In theory I don't disagree with this. Overall our first team recruitment has been pretty good but it lacks dynamism and variety in terms of markets we look at, and is definitely too pally with the same pool of agents. We have ultimately backed ourselves into a corner by targeting a specific market and being risk averse - which came to a head this summer. If you could have an expansive and flexible recruitment model allied with Howe's ability to coach and develop players working in tandem we'd be onto a winner. Whether that will happen or not is a big question mark - and at the moment I fear we're heading towards a collision course that will ultimately see the end of Eddie unfortunately.

Gutted. I was at their game on Saturday right behind the dugout. Missed a chance to stot him with a turnip.

Kazim Richards played for Turkey but is a London lad in reality.

Aye. Close this fucking thread

I'm sure Cherki signed a new deal today

Always felt he would end up there. They've absolutely done us.

We really clowning at this point

That geezer from TalkSport already deleted his tweet saying it's likely to be done

Not convinced by him personally but he's a good age and has attributes.

The one thing I will say about our determination to let perfect be the enemy of good, is it did ultimately get us Isak instead of Ekitike/João Pedro. That was a deal that eventually appeared right at the end of the window. There's no doubt that signing and what went before it sticks in the club's decision making processes.

Indeed. I absolutely think we were sort of banking on one of them, probably Bruno, going for a massive fee. But obviously the thing that makes us need to sell (PSR), is also the exact thing that stops others also spending mega money to get us out of our PSR issues. It's an unavoidable vicious cycle. We have to be far more savvy going forward and have a clear and more effective strategy. With all the players out of contract out next year I'd be fine with us going for 5-6 younger players that we've scouted and picked at a lower pricepoint (£10-20 million) if that was our strategy. But I also think the club are somewhat concerned regarding optics/PR in needing to be seen to be ambitious and get 'marquee' signings in. So we seem to be aiming for big first XI signings, and keeping our FFP punts strictly at youth level. The issue is we've now not delivered a direct first XI signing in over 12 months

You won't make hold/money on £60+ million players anymore IMO. The market has fallen out at the level above that with FFP. Napoli are somehow managing to sell Osimhen at a loss even to Saudi. And he's a centre forward. Brighton have re-calibrated from £10-15 million into the £30 million bracket - which I think is now the sweet spot for a club looking to develop and profit specifically. I agree with the club not wanting to go higher on Guehi for these reasons. What I don't understand is having absolutely no flexibility or confidence in finding better players than what we have in that lower pricepoint.

Definitely longer ago than two days ago given he played against us

Think Greek lad is going out on loan. Dubravka I'm surprised hasn't gone but he is out of contract next summer anyway TBF.

Obviously everybody will whine but I think it's a good opportunistic signing.

Bentaleb Don't think Forster ever played a PL game for us.

Yeah that's the only other thing that it suggests tbh. Because otherwise it really has Ashley era levels of incompetence about it. The worry is the club really doesn't want to invest further into Howe's image of the squad.

FFP both in terms of incomings and outgoings has seemingly put us into a freeze state, where we're utterly terrified to now buy any player for decent money that isn't deemed by the club an absolute guaranteed success. This has reduced our targets to a tiny pool (as admitted, stupidly imo, by Howe) of players. It's put us in a terrible negotiating position. You would expect us to have a much broader option for potential signings across varying pricepoint - particularly when we're actually looking at multiple positions.

Yes we have definitely had the piss taken out of us.

It's been an absolute mess of a window, surely we can all admit that now?

Plus Glasner likes to play a back 3.

I still think they need one other CB on top of that personally.