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Most players would be a massive upgrade though, it really isn’t difficult to upgrade that position given how badly we are lacking. Bowen, is at peak value and on a massive long term contract, it would be eye wateringly expensive with little to no chance of any return.

We deserve our FFP troubles if we insist on buying players at the peak of the value in the most expensive market in the world.

You can’t just assume Henderson didn’t return to the UK for tax reasons. Also, totally unfair on ASM given he’s not British to be begin with.

These kind of rumours can be ignored, we just have to wait for the decisions. Not really the kind of thing to leak are these.

Why? No indications we are interested at all.

I don’t think Brighton’s owner is willing to spend 100m+ net this window. I could be wrong but I don’t see it. All Brighton have more than us is FFP headroom, in every other metric they are behind us.

Ruddy and the Greek lad I don’t even count them to be honest, both signed to make the numbers up nothing more. Expecting a RW, Right Cb and a forward personally and some prospects in the mould of Minteh.

Precisely, as usual our name will be used a lot to bid up the price of players moving. As fans we should know which links makes sense and which don’t.

The only way we can get a full back this window is it Trips leaves, if not I think we will spend our resources elsewhere.

Brighton have more FFP headroom than most, that’s without question but it’s extremely unlikely they suddenly lose the plot and outspend the league.

We aren’t selling Gordon, he’d cost more than they’d want to pay. We already told them 55m + the keeper wasn’t a serious offer.

Yeah you would imagine on targets we’ve been tracking, giving him input on them certainly. We wouldn’t have had time to scout other targets which may not have been on our radar.

I wouldn’t expect too much change for this window tbh, a lot of work will have already been done on whoever we buy.

This is my bad.

Didn’t your academy win the youth cup last year?

Ashworth was a logical appointment for us at the time given how hollowed out we were, we needed someone to put structures into place which hadn’t existed for years if ever. Man United already have those in place and seem to struggle in the market so it’s an odd appointment for them imo.

Stadium update soon?

Credited with identifying players like Son, Mane gave opportunities to some of Monaco’s talents like Benoit Badshialle and the lad who Madrid signed from Monaco. so elite talent id coupled with experience of both England and Europe really ticks every box for us.

You’re 100% right, we have to trade because we can’t bridge the financial gap overnight, FFP is so restrictive. This appointment certainly feels indicative of that as he has a canny record and is known to be quite ruthless. I hope Eddie is fully onboard with this and the club have broke him in detail about how we have to operate.

Without a doubt. The whole financial hole thing is odd as they would have known the issue for a year prior.

That was always such a bizarre take.

He was discussed at the start of the process on here, I think some of us were surprised we were not seemingly more interested when all the reports were leading to Dougie and Spors.

Really exited about this!

No, not at all.

He was yes. He did always seem like a good fit on paper, let’s hope he stays longer than dirty Dan did.