West Ham away.

Good lad Dack 😘

3 minutes ago, J*B said:

How are you watching it? 

I would like to know this…

Is this on tv?

3 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

People have different opinions, that's the beauty of the forum, but you're baffled that some people have a different opinion?

No, you can have a different opinion. I can still be baffled by people writing GB off, that’s my opinion.

3 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

Toxic? Don’t be so melodramatic. 
It’s hardly that deep- people are just passing comment on what they think so far. 

Its the amount of negativity. People have different opinion’s, that’s the beauty of a forum. What baffles me is people writing GB off already. 

Why is everyone writing GB off already? Some serious toys being thrown out the pram because we haven’t made enough singings yet. Its pathetic, at least give the man until the 1st September before you start passing judgement. Its like people think we are playing football manager and you can just sign players easily. Every day I read the messageboard and its gets more and more toxic.

4 minutes ago, neophox said:

Venezuelan Chacon interest...

Passes the work permit calculator.

He’s my take on the need for transfers.

If anyone thinks that GB is sat on his hands doing absolutely nothing, you are wrong.

We are fishing in a very small pond of players that we could potentially recruit.

We need to stay within our wage structure which more or less rules out premiership players who are not in current squads. That leaves us with league one and below or potentially players from abroad (with the brexit rules it makes it extremely hard to sign these players.)

Say we have 6 million to sign 4-5 players. We need to try and stretch this to accommodate the need for quality rather than just get bodies through the door. Championship teams will want a premium for their players.

There isn’t just a plethora of quality players that teams are willing to let leave their squad that we can afford.

Now Is the business end of the transfer window so I suspect we will see things moving in the next 2 weeks. Teams will sell players cheaper now to accommodate new players or to raise funds. This is just the way it works.

Do we need new players now? Absolutely. 

Would I prefer to wait and get the quality than just bodies through the door because are squad is thin. Yes. 
 
I am confident within the next 2 weeks we will have good quality players incoming that will make the squad better.

Patience is required.

Any reason why Van Hecke isn’t in the squad on Brighton official website?

Literally everyone else is….

https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/teams/mens-team

4 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Is this out of character compared to his activity on insta since he left?

I suppose he does have a good relationship with the lads and if it was just that I wouldn’t think anything of it. Add everything together and it’s makes me think something is happening. 

It’s not been awful.

We have had majority of possession, just the final ball letting us down. 

Good- Hedges, Travis and Phillips.

Adam Wharton is showing his inexperience, 2 or 3 times he’s lost the ball in dangerous positions, if we were playing championship standard would of been punished.

Dack- can still see the quality but clearly lacking match fitness and rusty.

Dolan - ineffective but is a pressing machine.

Diaz- done nothing of note.

Pickering and Carter have both done OK, not a lot of threat going forward but defensively fine.

Need to sort out the offsides been caught 4 or 5 times now.

Can see the press in action that JDT wants but need to press more as a team rather than individuals.

Ash Phillips is going to be a top 6 centre half when’s he older. Calm, strong and plays balls through the lines, quality player. 
 

3 minutes ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

To put the player in the same financial position it would have to be a lot more than £8k a week. I remember reading that overseas players in Turkey were paying tax at around only 14% which compares with income tax at a marginal rate of 45% in the UK plus NI.

Jobs fu*ked then 😅

7 hours ago, unleaded said:

Looks like the Styles deal is not happening Besiktas have come in & have agreed personal terms with the player 8 K a week …..
Negotiations continue with Club Barnsley…….Valery is pushing for him …

 

Let’s hope they can’t agree a few with Barnsley…..I live in hope.

Just now, BankEnd Rover said:

I’d love both but economically we won’t be able to afford the two…Styles roughly 1.5m & Bowler 3m+

Styles will be 2m+ 

6 minutes ago, BigUts said:

Is this a private party, or...

More the merrier! 🍺

10 minutes ago, glen9mullan said:

Reliably informed from Barnsley side (agent) that Styles is rovers bound, seen as a Smith-Rowe type player.

Some fine details re sell on clauses, but this is likely to happen.

This is not related to my meeting today, which i will report on later

If this comes off, ill get the pints in at ewood 🍻🍻

3 minutes ago, TruRover said:

@callumrovers seems you were right about the movement on a CM. Still no indication on a name? 

No name, I haven’t asked to be honest. It was a fleeting conversation about Rovers I was having with someone.

6 minutes ago, OsloRover said:

could be Sammie Szmodics?

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/sources-blackburn-rovers-eyeing-move-for-peterborough-united-ace/

Could be, coincidence? Doubt it.

CM incoming in the next few days. Name under wraps.

Not withholding anything, just don’t know the name.

36 minutes ago, Athlete said:

That is totally ridiculous from Broughton....seems another chancer ( unless pulls his figer out PDQ ) on the gravy train who should be nowhere near Ewood Park..sick to death of these taking the P@@@

Why would he do an interview now? Judge him at the end of the transfer window. 

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Where does the myth that prices drop towards the end of a window come from?

Mowbray used to trot this lame old excuse out every window to make the lack of activity seem normal. I'd have thought exactly the opposite was true, by the last minute selling Clubs know you're absolutely desperate and have you over a barrel.

I.e. like when we hadn't signed anyone of note in the first season back in the Championship then with 2 days to spare started throwing telephone numbers about at Forest for BBD and at QPR for Freeman.

Clubs want to raise funds to sign other players towards the end of the window, easier for deals to be done ✅ compromises are made.

16 minutes ago, 47er said:

If ts impossible what's the point of it all? By definition, nothing can be done.

That's hysterical pessimism from you.

I want the club to do better, not for supporters to tell me its too hard. Barnsley and Luton made Top 6 in the last 2 seasons

FFS, yet we haven't in 11 seasons.

It’s being realistic. We can’t compete financially with half the championship now, it’s about biding your time and waiting for the right deals.  

We as a club could go and sign 3 players tomorrow but if there no better or don’t fit into the system we want to play, what’s the point?

Barnsley and Luton are an anomaly. That’s why they don’t and won’t repeat it.

Correct, hence the change of direction with a DOF and Head Coach.