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How did my scouting assessment turn out so far for you? Accurate or miles off? I thought he looked very solid at the weekend against us - along with the customary header from a corner into the stand! Good luck for the rest of the season.

Hello again! Some very strange and uncharacteristic play from Dan Burn today - what he was doing today is not his game. It looked to me that he was so focused on looking "up for the fight" for the Toon that he stopped concentrating on his actual game. But a couple of poor performances does not a bad player make. Whilst it's true he was in a purple patch which slightly flattered his level of ability, today was pretty abject. The truth lies somewhere in the middle. Still an absolute bargain you got from us, but he needs to stop all this faux-passionate silliness and just play. Dan is a very polite and placid bloke, what I watched today was alarmingly artificial.

It would be a massive loss for our club and a phenomenal signing for you. He is considered the best in the country at what he does, and has been personally involved in all our recent successful signings, including Lamptey. He has an outstanding knowledge of club's academies and has put together a leading international scouting network, which is seeing us pick up several "wonderkids" from South America and beyond for relative pennies. We are competing with some of the biggest clubs in the world for signatures, which is mental as a Brighton fan. Tony Bloom, our chairman and lifelong supporter is the money man. His CEO Paul Barber does the commercial stuff. Everything football is Ashworth. He is absolutely irreplaceable and would be the best possible signing you could make. Pay whatever it costs. That said, I really, really don't want to lose him.

You're welcome! I really like him left of a central three, so that our left wing-back Cucurella outside of him and centre-back Dunk beside him can offer cover on the overlap and underlap. We go man to man so if he goes with the striker, he has pace behind him. I really like Burn, he is well liked by Albion fans and would be sad if he went. Would improve your defence immediately, but if playing in a back two could do with pacey players either side of him.

Brighton fan here. Dan Burn has just gotten better and better for us. He has played left of a centre-back trio, left wing back and left of a back two consistently well for us. That said, he is viewed as a back up to Dunk and Webster mostly, who are two superb centre halves so no shame there. He isn't the quickest, but uses his positioning superbly well and always gives himself a few yards. In the wrong environment against lightning fast players, he can be made to look very slow (Traore and a few others have given him nightmares at LWB) but this is quite uncommon. He is surprisingly bad in the air. Whilst he wins defensive headers, his percentages aren't as good as they should be and the ball can end up going practically anywhere. Attacking corners is the same, often wins it and puts it into row Z. He has improved tenfold since he joined and Potter really rates him. After a poor performance last season he was getting some stick, Potter said afterwards "anyone who doesn't think Dan Burn is a good defender doesn't know anything about football". As for the sale, I can see it happening, although I have no insider information, I am just a fan. His contract is up in June 2023. The issue is the fee. Tony Bloom is, in my biased view, the shrewdest operator in the league and as a club - despite large losses - we have no need to sell unless a player forces a move. As shown with Ben White (we rejected £25m then £30m from Leeds before he'd even kicked a ball in the PL), he simply won't sell unless he gets his figure. Bloom sets a figure and just outright declines every offer until that figure is met. It's as simple as that. In this case, he wants £15m it would appear, so you'll either be paying £15m or he won't move. It's just how the club operates. Hope this was interesting/useful.