Matt1892

I think it’s fair to say that we were a lot more desperate back then than we are now, he was bought to do a short term job and was moved on quite quickly afterwards.

Settle down with the laughing emojis, Comrade.

The season we came top 4 he made 3 league starts before being pushed out of the door in the January window, playing 440 minutes of football.

I think that improvement was more around Howe coming in than Chris Wood, who was moved on quite quickly as there was such a drop in our play when we did rely on him.

But was our top 4 form because of Chris Wood or in spite of having Chris Wood?

The tactics remained the same, as they did the season before. The issue last season was Wilson wasn’t fit enough to get any sort of run of games or form under his belt. I don’t see Calvert-Lewin being able to slot in with the kind of football we currently play, he’s not a good finisher with the ball at his feet and there will be a reliance on getting to the touch line and crossing from the wide players rather than cutting in as they do now.

Isn’t that why we have brought Paul Mitchell in? As part of the excitement in him getting the role is the amount of players he has brought in to clubs from abroad that have been successful. So I don’t see why we are so limited on option that we have to see that anything better than Calvert-Lewin is unachievable. Whilst you can’t guarantee success with a replacement for Wilson that also goes for DCL, who you would think would have the attributes to star in a team playing the kind of football that Dyche does. The other issue is that Wilson can slot in to the team when Isak is out and we can still play the same type of football, yet we can’t do this with DCL as his attributes are completely different, meaning we will have to change the way we play to accommodate him, which is fine in the last 20 minutes of a game when chasing against a team sat deep but you wouldn’t want to have to play like that for a number of weeks or months.

Calvert-Lewin is going to cost a fortune in wages.

Based on ability, would I be comfortable with Calvert-Lewin being our main forward if Isak was in it for a period of time through injury? Absolutely not.

I didn’t say we got him at a discount, more that we went in with a low bid that was reportedly half of what we ended up paying. I don’t recall anyone saying we were behaving like Mike Ashley at the time, more we were being opportunistic, which is what Man Utd are doing with the low bid to turn the players head.

There is a difference between the starting point of Man Utd and Mike Ashley though, one is the biggest spenders in Europe over the last decade and the other had the no ambition whatsoever. How much was our first bid for Livramento reported to be? Less than half what we paid wasn’t it?

It isn’t irrelevant, you put an offer up to the point that you are prepared to pay, if Everton refuse to accept that then you walk away. What they are doing with the bidding is turning the players head, which applies pressure behind the scenes. Not many clubs just walk away once quoted an inflated fee, especially if they have had the nod from the player.

That is a good offer for Branthwaite, he isn’t a £60 million footballer and it is debatable if he has to potential to become one either.

Madueke has the potential to go up a few levels if he can get a consistent run in a team.

Langstaff even. The site keeps timing out when trying to change the above post. Autocorrect put it to Longstaff.

Macaulay Longstaff has moved to Millwall, a big step up for him at 27 but Jamie Vardy did it, albeit slightly younger. He holds the record for most goals scored in a National League season, 42 in 45.

It is likely that Brighton have more FFP headroom than Man City.

Having the FFP room does not equal having the resources to spend, as a club we will spend up to what we can get away with for FFP where as Brightons whole model is built on signing young players with potential to develop before selling on for a profit. That doesn’t include wage structures due to affordability that Brighton have to work to due to the size of the club. Unless we are going to compare our transfers to Man City, then we shouldn’t be comparing Brightons to ours.

Surely you rate the window compared to the club? What might be a good window for Brighton wouldn’t be a good window for us with our resources, in the same was our good window wouldn’t be good for Man City.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vpNbi9tvLRQ&pp=ygUTTnVmYyBHb3Jkb24gbWVkaWNhbA%3D%3D Ashworth 0:40 Howe 2:40

There was an article yesterday that said he has been doing work work with transfers behind the scenes for us.

Ben Yedder was signed before him I believe.

That is because it worked out ok in the end. That doesn’t mean the days leading up to the sales were not panicked or chaotic though, which the outcome doesn’t take away from.

Last week was panicked and chaotic.