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The College Dropout

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Attempting to judge if selling Minteh was a good decision based on a game by game analysis of his performances is stupidity. 

 

Minteh is 20 years old with masses of potential and ability to add value today. That’s always been the issue here.  We’ve sold someone who has potential to be worth twice what we sold him for in 2-3 years. And he would add value to the playing team.  

 

When we sold Carroll, Liverpool were desperate buyers. In terms of the actual fee We knew we got a premium. He wasn’t worth £35m at the time - Liverpool were the only club in the world that would pay close to that. And it would be likely he would never be worth the £35m. 

 

This is different.  We already know we had a better offer.  The buying club hopes/expects to sell him for more than they bought him for. It’s like buying Olise or Eze 4 years ago for £8m then acting like it’s great business to sell them for £30m a year or two later. When they’ve got a real possibility of being worth £60m in another 1 or 2 years of development. Thats bad business. 

 

Further compounded by the fact he plays in our weakest outfield position and he would be pushing to start.  

 

The mess we got ourselves in meant we had to sell him aye. That will never change. But having to sell our brightest young prospect, who the club expect to go onto bigger and better things then £30m at Brighton will always be one of the first big red flags of the PIF era.  

 

In retrospect I wish we sold him to a PIF Saudi team. The highest bid was from Lille at around £40m, that’s FMV. Get him back on loan for 2 seasons and see how he develops.  

 

As a fan of the boy.  I think he’s made a positive start. Looks a bit raw. But presses well. Uses his right foot more than I anticipated.  He took a lovely touch with his right foot to setup his shot before the equaliser. He’s a real handful for fullbacks. Brighton get him 1v1 VERY regularly. It’s clearly a tactic to prioritise a particular winger and wing play in general.  Mitoma had lots of the ball against Arsenal, Minteh had loads of the ball against Man U.  

 

The quality of his final ball is very good. Put in some lush crosses from open play and set pieces. Shown some good movement.  You can tell he still has room to grow physically. A little stronger, faster.  He’s given Dalot and Timber tough matches and had some joy against both but ultimately they had the upper hand. So he should know he has got a way to go. He looks to be in a fantastic setup. He’s getting 70+ minutes a week in the PL, in an attacking side who look to get him the ball 1v1, modest expectations. Just 20 man. 

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Infatuation Junkie

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46 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Attempting to judge if selling Minteh was a good decision based on a game by game analysis of his performances is stupidity. 

 

Minteh is 20 years old with masses of potential and ability to add value today. That’s always been the issue here.  We’ve sold someone who has potential to be worth twice what we sold him for in 2-3 years. And he would add value to the playing team.  

 

When we sold Carroll, Liverpool were desperate buyers. In terms of the actual fee We knew we got a premium. He wasn’t worth £35m at the time - Liverpool were the only club in the world that would pay close to that. And it would be likely he would never be worth the £35m. 

 

This is different.  We already know we had a better offer.  The buying club hopes/expects to sell him for more than they bought him for. It’s like buying Olise or Eze 4 years ago for £8m then acting like it’s great business to sell them for £30m a year or two later. When they’ve got a real possibility of being worth £60m in another 1 or 2 years of development. Thats bad business. 

 

Further compounded by the fact he plays in our weakest outfield position and he would be pushing to start.  

 

The mess we got ourselves in meant we had to sell him aye. That will never change. But having to sell our brightest young prospect, who the club expect to go onto bigger and better things then £30m at Brighton will always be one of the first big red flags of the PIF era.  

 

In retrospect I wish we sold him to a PIF Saudi team. The highest bid was from Lille at around £40m, that’s FMV. Get him back on loan for 2 seasons and see how he develops.  

 

As a fan of the boy.  I think he’s made a positive start. Looks a bit raw. But presses well. Uses his right foot more than I anticipated.  He took a lovely touch with his right foot to setup his shot before the equaliser. He’s a real handful for fullbacks. Brighton get him 1v1 VERY regularly. It’s clearly a tactic to prioritise a particular winger and wing play in general.  Mitoma had lots of the ball against Arsenal, Minteh had loads of the ball against Man U.  

 

The quality of his final ball is very good. Put in some lush crosses from open play and set pieces. Shown some good movement.  You can tell he still has room to grow physically. A little stronger, faster.  He’s given Dalot and Timber tough matches and had some joy against both but ultimately they had the upper hand. So he should know he has got a way to go. He looks to be in a fantastic setup. He’s getting 70+ minutes a week in the PL, in an attacking side who look to get him the ball 1v1, modest expectations. Just 20 man. 

You are right Minteh and Anderson are two players that will play in Europe before our lads if we don’t start pulling our fingers out of our arses.

 

Both need to have huge sell on clauses because both are going to have a huge price tag in coming years.

 

minteh is still rough around the edges. But at 20. He shows great potential.

 

Anderson is now in his favoured position and will literally go from strength to strength

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Matt1892

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He was excellent in the first half as were all of their players, Brighton look like Arsenal used to where they completely dominate but try to walk it in.

 

Been quite flat since the subs.

 

Brighton usually sub their attacking players off by the way, in the same way that Bournemouth do due to the strength in depth they have.

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Just now, The College Dropout said:

20 year old in not being the finished product shocker. 

 

I was thinking this aswell, but a bunch of people put him in their FPL team and expected him to be killing it, so there was clearly high expectations.

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The College Dropout

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3 minutes ago, Erikse said:

 

I was thinking this aswell, but a bunch of people put him in their FPL team and expected him to be killing it, so there was clearly high expectations.

Isn’t that more the price point and fixtures?

 

Ive got Morgan Rogers who is further along his development tbf. But I also think Roger’s could improve so much. 

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