Yankuba Minteh (now playing for Brighton & Hove Albion)

[Erikse]

And if someone doesn't bid proper money for Minteh before the deadline.. What then? It's easy to sit here now and say that it ended well because we got a £33m bid last minute, it seems to have been margins away from a disaster like selling Gordon for a suboptimal fee or take the deduction. If so, that doesn't seem like great management.

[et tu brute]

Just now, TRon said:

 

So who is next in the pecking order if Salah is presumably going to leave?

 

 

It's not a big name player and if he's that good then surely the Liverpool manager would be looking at Minteh to be that player coming through. You have to remember by all reports, the Feyenoord fans were still not 100% convinced by him either. We should just wait and see before people jump up and down. I personally think it was a great price we got for him

[The Prophet]

2 minutes ago, Erikse said:

And if someone doesn't bid proper money for Minteh before the deadline.. What then? It's easy to sit here now and say that it ended well because we got a £33m bid last minute, it seems to have been margins away from a disaster like selling Gordon for a suboptimal fee or take the deduction. If so, that doesn't seem like great management.

 

If my uncle had tits he'd be my auntie.

[Erikse]

5 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

If my uncle had tits he'd be my auntie.

 

Nice deflection. A necessary one when you have no good argument against the point, I understand.

 

 

Edited July 31, 2024 by Erikse

[et tu brute]

10 minutes ago, Erikse said:

And if someone doesn't bid proper money for Minteh before the deadline.. What then? It's easy to sit here now and say that it ended well because we got a £33m bid last minute, it seems to have been margins away from a disaster like selling Gordon for a suboptimal fee or take the deduction. If so, that doesn't seem like great management.

I said a few days ago it maybe part of the reason Staveley left (we won't find out though). I'm quite sure it won't be repeated again, although pressure is on, as I'm pretty certain another season like the one just gone, will see possibly all of our top players looking to move

 

 

Edited July 31, 2024 by et tu brute

[The Prophet]

Just now, Erikse said:

 

Nice deflection.

 

It's not really though is it? 

 

Minteh was a sellable asset who we generated a decent amount of interest in, with multiple clubs willing to invest £30 million plus in him.

 

How we ended up in that position is another matter, but worrying about what would happen if we didn't sell him seems completely fruitless, unless you're into worrying.

[Erikse]

3 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

It's not really though is it? 

 

Minteh was a sellable asset who we generated a decent amount of interest in, with multiple clubs willing to invest £30 million plus in him.

 

How we ended up in that position is another matter, but worrying about what would happen if we didn't sell him seems completely fruitless, unless you're into worrying.

 

I'm sure the club thinks this way, and will be like "ah, jobs done. Nothing to learn here, we did well."

[The Prophet]

2 minutes ago, Erikse said:

 

I'm sure the club thinks this way, and will be like "ah, jobs done. Nothing to learn here, we did well."

 

Aye, that's exactly what I said. 

[Erikse]

1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

 

Aye, that's exactly what I said. 

 

Look. If we get smashed by Scunthorpe in the cup and happen to scam them with a 1-0 win. We will not be all happy and impressed. Why? Because evaluating a performance purely based on the result is a terrible way of doing it. This is basic stuff.

[TRon]

17 minutes ago, et tu brute said:

It's not a big name player and if he's that good then surely the Liverpool manager would be looking at Minteh to be that player coming through. You have to remember by all reports, the Feyenoord fans were still not 100% convinced by him either. We should just wait and see before people jump up and down. I personally think it was a great price we got for him

 

You might well be right, we'll only really know in a year's time if that was a great price for him. I can accept many feel that way, personally I already said just the way he scored his goals had me quite excited about his prospects here, and I said it before there was any talk of selling him. IMO we were forced to sell him for PSR reasons only, not because it was a great price, but these are only opinions at the end of the day. No one's going to jail for having them. At least I hope not.

[The Prophet]

2 minutes ago, Erikse said:

 

Look. If we get smashed by Scunthorpe in the cup and happen to scam them with a 1-0 win. We will not be all happy and impressed. Why? Because evaluating a performance purely based on the result is a terrible way of doing it. This is basic stuff.

 

That's not what I'm doing though.

 

I'm sure the club will be evaluating why we left satisfying PSR requirements until so late in the day and whether any action is required to prevent it from happening again.

 

Once we were in that position though, Minteh was always going to be sold. Whether that was to Everton, Lyon, Brighton or someone else. It was the best of a bad bunch of options.

[Erikse]

17 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

That's not what I'm doing though.

 

I'm sure the club will be evaluating why we left satisfying PSR requirements until so late in the day and whether any action is required to prevent it from happening again.

 

Once we were in that position though, Minteh was always going to be sold. Whether that was to Everton, Lyon, Brighton or someone else. It was the best of a bad bunch of options.

 

I think you need to read my initial post again then. You're talking about something different here. I was saying that we must have done something wrong to put ourselves in a position where we are dependant on a proper bid for Minteh to save ourselves from a disaster, if that was the case. Judging by your replies, it very much seemed like you disagreed with that, by basically saying that pointing our the risk was just "ifs and buts". And that's being too results oriented imo.

 

 

Edited July 31, 2024 by Erikse

[The Prophet]

12 minutes ago, Erikse said:

 

I think you need to read my initial post again then. You're talking about something different here. I was saying that we must have done something wrong to put ourselves in a position where we are dependant on a proper bid for Minteh to save ourselves from a disaster, if that was the case. Judging by your replies, it very much seemed like you disagreed with that, by saying it was just "ifs and buts". And that is being too results oriented imo.

 

 

 

 

My original point was that we would have always got good money for flogging Minteh going into the last week of the window. Worrying about us not selling him seems pretty fruitless when it was always on the cards.

 

Who knows what happened leading into that sale and why it was required though. I'm sure the club will be all over it.

[cubaricho]

Jesus christ we need a transfer.  

[Erikse]

19 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

My original point was that we would have always got good money for flogging Minteh going into the last week of the window. Worrying about us not selling him seems pretty fruitless when it was always on the cards.

 

Who knows what happened leading into that sale and why it was required though. I'm sure the club will be all over it.

 

It did seem like Gordon got offered to other clubs pretty late though. As if we were really struggling. Who know if that was true, or how necessary it really was.

 

(I'm not refering to that BS report from the transfer thread that I saw just now)

 

 

Edited July 31, 2024 by Erikse

[54]

9 minutes ago, cubaricho said:

Jesus christ we need a transfer.  

It is starting to get slightly annoying that this thread is always at the top of football section like

[cubaricho]

1 minute ago, 54 said:

It is starting to get slightly annoying that this thread is always at the top of football section like

 

 Agreed. That's why I originally looked in here like wtf is going on in there? 

 

Buncha bullshit, that's what.  

[Scoot]

11 minutes ago, 54 said:

It is starting to get slightly annoying that this thread is always at the top of football section like

 

Was thinking exactly the same.

[Hudson]

9 minutes ago, cubaricho said:

 

 Agreed. That's why I originally looked in here like wtf is going on in there? 

 

Buncha bullshit, that's what.  

Stop bumping it then 😤 

[Slim]

 

[Fak]

That last sentence is surely a windup. 

[Andy84]

FPL instinctive 

[Magpie]

Another goal and assist on Saturday 😳

 

🤣🤣

[Joe1984]

3 minutes ago, Magpie said:

Another goal and assist on Saturday 😳

 

🤣🤣

Yeah so, Murphy been knocking them in all preseason too.

 

So by that logic...  🤣🤣

 

 

Edited August 12, 2024 by Joe1984

[duo]

16 minutes ago, Magpie said:

Another goal and assist on Saturday 😳

 

🤣🤣

Still think Murphy has scored more - pre-season means nothing.  We've sold him to keep Isak, Gordon, Bruno - so regardless of his form this season it was good business.