Yankuba Minteh (now playing for Brighton & Hove Albion)

[Dr Jinx]

Good business but a shit sale, he’d have been very interesting on the right this season.

 

We’ll never know now. Best of luck to him, I’ve a feeling he’s going to end up being a cult figure at one of the big clubs down the line.

[Vinny Green Balls]

Just now, The Prophet said:

@The College Dropout Do you think the club has made errors?

 why, The Prophet? Why?

[LionOfGosforth]

Be laughs in here when Minteh bullets one in for Brighton opening weekend. Think Harvey Barnes might get a mention.

[M1tche]

Why are people digging at Harvey Barnes? He was bought for 5 million more and only about 7 mill of that even counts on this years finances, so we would have needed to sell anyway. We would have had to have done zero business last summer to have not sold a player who might or might not become a really good player.

 

That's also before you take into a account that Harvey Barnes is 1 in 4 Premier League wide man, and we haven't seen the best of him yet either

[Paulinho]

I’m a negative nancy at the best of times but I can’t believe people are wetting the bed at this. There’s not many clubs in the world who wouldn’t pull the trigger on this transfer regardless of PSR trouble.

[The College Dropout]

1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

@The College Dropout Do you think the club has made errors?

yeh. Don’t you?

[Yorkie]

8 minutes ago, Fezzle said:

He's on ignore, I jack flashed him on day one(that's how long I have lurked ). Don't think he ever posts in chat does he?

 

5 minutes ago, Fezzle said:

One of the funniest things alongside the old type in public thread. Loved reading the chat section at work,it disappeared so had to join. Obviously a few will see that as a bad thing like ha

 

Always assumed you must've been a regen. It's good when long time lurkers start posting. 

[Holloway]

that would potentially explain things 

[KaKa]

4 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

They sold Palmer becaus they couldn’t guarantee his minutes so Palmer wanted to leave. And I think they probably regret it. 
 

Ferram Torres, James Trafford, Douglas Luiz, Edozie, Bazunu- not good enough. That’s the Real Madrid model.  
 

I don’t mean Minteh will be as good as Foden. City sell youngsters because they will not be good enough for City or the youngster wants to leave and play.  If the kids want to stay and they rate the kid - they’ll keep him. That’s Rico Lewis and Phil Foden. 
 

We aren’t selling Minteh because we don  think he’s good enough so we’ll take the money. Man City have never sold a player for FFP violation reasons - they’ll break the rules before they do that (allegedly). 

 

How can you possibly know what the people at the club actually think about Minteh?

 

There's literally people on the Feyenoord forum calling the guy a headless chicken. We're not talking about a player even all of their fans are all raving about here.

 

This is pretty strange man. I'm just not sure how you can be so sold on this guy becoming a world beater.

[gdm]

27 minutes ago, Unbelievable said:

Would it be possible for you to stop being such a condescending prick, or is that too much to ask..?

Too much to ask I feel. He’s positively giddy right now 

[Weezertron]

10 minutes ago, madras said:

And if it's reinvested in the RW of our dreams, like an Olise ?

From an earlier discussion on here, it's unsure if the Minteh money goes towards simply paying off our deficit, or if it's available to spend going forwards. Could be the case its just gonzo, to offset all our previous spending. 

[Fezzle]

1 minute ago, M1tche said:

Why are people digging at Harvey Barnes? He was bought for 5 million more and only about 7 mill of that even counts on this years finances, so we would have needed to sell anyway. We would have had to have done zero business last summer to have not sold a player who might or might not become a really good player.

 

That's also before you take into a account that Harvey Barnes is 1 in 4 Premier League wide man, and we haven't seen the best of him yet either

If he was available for the season we would have a lot more money now , freak injury but he was a good signing 

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

18 minutes ago, Upthemags said:

Quite literally exactly like selling Foden at 18/19, before he was a known quantity, and all he had was promise

No because you need to compare the situations of the respective clubs at the material time. There wasn’t even PSR when city sold foden. They’d won titles they could spend their money and had a far better squad. 

[Matt1892]

You would think that if we didn’t have such a short deadline that the club would have looked to move Almiron and Murphy on, then having Minteh plus an experienced player on the right.

[Fezzle]

1 minute ago, Yorkie said:

 

 

Always assumed you must've been a regen. It's good when long time lurkers start posting. 

Always told paully I'd never sign up, I am an argumentative cunt at times so didn't trust myself on the football side. So really it's your fault for hiding chat to lurkers ha

[Lordshola]

The fuck going on in here like?

 

the Feyenoord fans don’t even rate him that highly. They say he’s a headless chicken. This is good bit of business and Minteh was bought for cheap to sell on to make profit. Job done.

[Upthemags]

Matching the highest fee Brighton's ever paid, and for a 19 year old no less, I think really tells the whole story. It does not diminish your fandom to be critical of the club, and I cannot understand why so many have such a visceral reaction to even the suggestion that this was not the optimal way of meeting PSR constraints. Just no need to get so worked up about valid criticism.

 

Right move in the here and now? Absolutely. Are fans allowed to be upset we've let a true talent go because we've made some questionable moves? Yes.

[Fezzle]

2 minutes ago, Weezertron said:

From an earlier discussion on here, it's unsure if the Minteh money goes towards simply paying off our deficit, or if it's available to spend going forwards. Could be the case its just gonzo, to offset all our previous spending. 

Both are true though, yes it plugs a gap this year but that extra increases future years too

[STM]

Posters who leave and come back with different names because they are worried people know who they are, are strange.

 

Just going to leave that right there.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Just now, Upthemags said:

Matching the highest fee Brighton's ever paid, and for a 19 year old no less, I think really tells the whole story. It does not diminish your fandom to be critical of the club, and I cannot understand why so many have such a visceral reaction to even the suggestion that this was not the optimal way of meeting PSR constraints. Just no need to get so worked up about valid criticism.

 

Right move in the here and now? Absolutely. Are fans allowed to be upset we've let a true talent go because we've made some questionable moves? Yes.

We haven’t really made any questionable moves. I mean, question them if you want, but the answers are pretty clear. 

[Shays Given Tim Flowers]

Be nice if we could stop cryarseing about the disaster this was until the end of the summer window when things can be looked at in the round. 

[Fezzle]

Just now, STM said:

Posters who leave and come back with different names because they are worried people know who they are, are strange.

 

Just going to leave that right there.

If that is directed at me I can assure you my username leaves very little margin for error on that score  

[Yorkie]

2 minutes ago, Upthemags said:

Are fans allowed to be upset we've let a true talent go because we've made some questionable moves? Yes.

 

This isn't true though. Minteh was always signed to sell.

[The Prophet]

2 minutes ago, Upthemags said:

Matching the highest fee Brighton's ever paid, and for a 19 year old no less, I think really tells the whole story. It does not diminish your fandom to be critical of the club, and I cannot understand why so many have such a visceral reaction to even the suggestion that this was not the optimal way of meeting PSR constraints. Just no need to get so worked up about valid criticism.

 

Right move in the here and now? Absolutely. Are fans allowed to be upset we've let a true talent go because we've made some questionable moves? Yes.

 

Are many people suggesting that?

[Mahoneys Tache]

A significant amount of simmering down is needed here. We are selling someone who might be good for a fucking mahoosive profit. Could turn out to be the modern Andy Carroll sale or a balls up but needs must.