Yankuba Minteh (now playing for Brighton & Hove Albion)

[RodneyCisse]

Lad didn’t even have a squad number man, and we’ve had their pants down for £33m

[simonsays]

Selling for more than Chelsea paid for Madueke - he may turn out to be be great, but I think it's good money for him

[Thumbheed]

Wonder how Feyenoord feel about all this 

 

[Scoot]

27 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Ultimately - I believe the tweet and the tweet quoted. 
 

We are reluctantly selling Minteh. Everything suggests he’s going to be a baller. But if not him we would need to sell a proven baller for us. We’ve done the best we can in a bad situation. 
 

We’ve left it too close for comfort and could’ve managed it better. 
 

BTW folks - unless we get a raft of new sponsors or suddenly find buyers for all the squad players. We’ll almost certainly need to sell next season to just comply. We better hope there’s a market for Joe Willock   

 

Probably waiting to see the outcome of the Man City arbitration on APT's before announcing anymore major sponsors. Ge a bit silly to announce a 10 million a year sponsor and then a week later Man City win their arbitration case and they realise that 10 million could have been 100 million. 

 

Plus the as each year goes by we'll have more saleable assets so selling squad players shouldn't be such an issue.

[M1tche]

Anyone stop to think that club and Minteh spoke, and he was told he'd either be loaned or that we were buying someone to play RW? Meaning he'd have either go on loan again or sit on the bench, which he didnt fancy, a bit like Palmer

[Danh1]

Makes you wonder why Liverpool weren't in for him when Slut worked close with him last season? Hopefully it’s because he isn’t all that 

[FLUMPO235]

12 minutes ago, Scoot said:

 

Probably waiting to see the outcome of the Man City arbitration on APT's before announcing anymore major sponsors. Ge a bit silly to announce a 10 million a year sponsor and then a week later Man City win their arbitration case and they realise that 10 million could have been 100 million. 

 

Plus the as each year goes by we'll have more saleable assets so selling squad players shouldn't be such an issue.

I’ve thought that about sponsorship but it doesn’t make any sense. We didn’t even know Man City were going to lodge that legal challenge on the fair market value.

 

So seems a bit odd we have waited for 2 full seasons of missed revenue off sponsorship deals. If we were hoping the fair market value was being removed, we could have just signed a 12 month deal to be renewed every year with renewed terms. That way we could have had this and last seasons £m from training gear sponsor, stadium and training ground. And then benefitted from any changes from the Man City challenge. 
 

however, it’s easy for me to criticise when I have fuck all idea what’s going on behind the scenes. But given genius Dan ashworth doesn’t know how emails work and tipped Garry Neville to be the next pep gaurdiola, it does make you wonder sometimes.

 

 

[Holloway]

intellect over intuition suck my hairy plums

[Whitley mag]

29 minutes ago, RodneyCisse said:

Lad didn’t even have a squad number man, and we’ve had their pants down for £33m

I’d love this to be true but the fact Brighton want him makes me think he ticks all the boxes as they’re big on analytics.

[Kid Icarus]

1 hour ago, gbandit said:

Of gin?

13.5% wine. Be kind

[simonsays]

2 minutes ago, Whitley mag said:

I’d love this to be true but the fact Brighton want him makes me think he ticks all the boxes as they’re big on analytics.

True enough, but it's more than they usually pay for potential.  Have any of their bigger purchases turned into world beaters?

[Sibierski]

£33m is jokes money. Never played for us ffs. 
 

Move forward now with a player that’s actually part of the club.

[relámpago blanco]

17 minutes ago, M1tche said:

Anyone stop to think that club and Minteh spoke, and he was told he'd either be loaned or that we were buying someone to play RW? Meaning he'd have either go on loan again or sit on the bench, which he didnt fancy, a bit like Palmer

No, it's that we are going to be docked points if we don't sell, he was promised a future here, we are peddling him around at the last minute.

 

He is 19, good luck to him.  I wish him all the success in the future and slightly disappointed not to see him for us.

[Sibierski]

Like, would you sign Mitoma now? No. 

[Whitley mag]

5 minutes ago, simonsays said:

True enough, but it's more than they usually pay for potential.  Have any of their bigger purchases turned into world beaters?

Nee idea to be fair just seems they’ve had a lot of success with younger players they’ve brought in.

[toontownman]

54 minutes ago, Thumbheed said:

Wonder how Feyenoord feel about all this 

 

 

[M1tche]

19 minutes ago, relámpago blanco said:

No, it's that we are going to be docked points if we don't sell, he was promised a future here, we are peddling him around at the last minute.

 

He is 19, good luck to him.  I wish him all the success in the future and slightly disappointed not to see him for us.

And you know that for fact how?

[huss9]

3 hours ago, Danh1 said:

I remember Ashworth (I na) and Eales saying that it’s all well and good buying well, but it’s important to be able to sell well too.
 

I am disappointed we never got to see what he can do here, but to make the profit we have on someone who hasn’t even completed a training session for us is crazy. He’s not played in a decent league yet. Already can’t be arsed with the knuckle draggers on Twitter crying whenever he does something decent for Brighton, like they did Mitro at Fulham.

 

Going back to my first point about selling well, obviously hindsight is important here but selling Almiron when his stock was high last summer would’ve been selling at the right time. Likewise, if we knew FFP was an upcoming problem, getting rid of Trippier in January for a decent fee would’ve been the right thing to do.

 

I hope we learn from it to ensure we don’t need to sell any top youth prospects again, and start becoming more ruthless. There’s more than a few this summer need to be peddled for a start. 

 

 

not that easy.

players have to agree to leave and clubs have to want to sign them.

[sushimonster85]

2 minutes ago, huss9 said:

not that easy.

players have to agree to leave and clubs have to want to sign them.

 

Yep. This is especially true of players going to Saudi. As much as I'd love us to get 20m for Almiron I can't be angry at him (or any player) for deciding it's not for them.

[The Bonk]

1 hour ago, SUPERTOON said:

 

“Definitely panicking” getting £33mil for a player that never played for us. Okay, Luke, definitely were panicking. Who the fuck at the club would give this guy a modicum of information. Click clown strikes again.
 

Silly season has come early this year! 

[dcmk]

Think we should just be thankful that we have Minteh to sell at the moment.

 

Selling one of the 'purples' would have been more difficult to comprehend.

[huss9]

2 hours ago, Tsunami said:

It’s a great deal, even when Chelsea buy him for 70M or more next close season.

i think the club will be patting themselves on the back. i certainly think they;ve played a blinder.

buy a kid and flip him for over £25m 12 momths later.

he may become a world-beater, he may not.

but i say well done darren eales.

they'll be hoping for similar with kuol and ashby but that may be more difficult.

[Conjo]

Massively dissapointed. Think his contributions to the team would exceed the fairly minor points deduction we would have gotten.

 

Would much more prefer we kept him and gave him an opportunity rather than buying someone ready made like f.ex Olise (although there is always a risk that established players also fail to perform in a new environment & under different expectations).

 

 

[dcmk]

1 minute ago, Conjo said:

Massively dissapointed. Think his contributions to the team would exceed the fairly minor points deduction we would have gotten.

 

Would much more prefer we kept him and gave him an opportunity rather than buying someone ready made like f.ex Olise (although there is always a risk that established players also fail to perform in a new environment & under different expectations).

 

 

There are probably other impacts that seem from points deduction.

 

It does impact reputation and I'm sure our sponsors or any potential sponsors wouldn't be ecstatic about the news, being non compliant.

[Miercoles]

18 minutes ago, huss9 said:

i think the club will be patting themselves on the back. i certainly think they;ve played a blinder.

buy a kid and flip him for over £25m 12 momths later.

he may become a world-beater, he may not.

but i say well done darren eales.

they'll be hoping for similar with kuol and ashby but that may be more difficult.

 

Yeah when you put it that way it's a great bit of business. 

 

Plus when was the last fucking time we had a prospect pan out? If anything selling him before his injury streak was a masterclass.