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The most Brighton have spent on a player is £17m. I doubt they’ll exceed that for an unproven player at the top level of dubious quality. Bottom line is Brighton don’t have the spending power. I’d be very surprised if they came in for Armstrong above Palace’s offer

I very much doubt he wants to stay It's every lower league player's dream to play in the Premier League and a couple of PL clubs want him.... the question is only the price Why should he run his deal down when next summer no PL club might want him?

....... because ManU are a quoted plc with access to public market funding and both United and Spurs have multi-multi-billionaire owners who ultimately will keep the clubs afloat because they are backed by rich assets like the players, the stadiums and the commercial interests Brighton, like Rovers, are a smaller/medium sized club with wealthy owners but limited spending power Debt ultimately for those sort of clubs is unsustainable That's why it matters

Brighton are £279m in debt.

Who's got more money than Palace, Southampton or Norwich who might be interested in Armstrong? Certainly not Brighton or West Brom, who've been mentioned West Ham I'm sure are watching the Armstrong situation and might go higher if they fail with their other targets, but that might be just wishful thinking The bar has been set at £12m by Palace and with the type of lower Prem club looking at him and in the unlikely event of a bidding war I can't see any reason why it should go much higher.

Norwich want a striker from Werder Bremen plus they don't want to let Idah (sp?) go, which suggests they're not that interested in Armstrong Other clubs could come in but as it stands Palace is the only serious bid on the table. £12 million it is

Palace know Rovers need to sell and they know Armstrong wants to leave They hold all the cards, Rovers don't Unless another bid comes in, around £12m is likely to be the deal price

Good result Calm down

Not surprising. Aside from the negativaty around the club people have got out of the habit and found others things to do

Crawley's had the benefit of the doubt......at the moment he's not good enough and should be dropped

After the Swansea game most likely

That's a relegation squad

I wonder if a cheeky offer to Messi would be in order? He's love mixing it with the Championship cloggers on cold, wet November night at Stoke

Manchester City pay £100m for Jack Grealish. We're struggling to find £100 Obscene wealth at one end at the spectrum, poverty at the other Neo-liberalism has triumphed

Could be a good move. All the Lancashire clubs missed Paul Mariner at Chorley. Signed for Plymouth and went on to play for England

Barcelona have confirmed Messi will leave this summer. Do you think they'd take Armstrong in PX?

Crystal Palace, Watford, Norwich or Southampton...... what a choice. For supporters of a certain age they're just rubbish third division southern clubs that we used to look down on in disdain. I feel sorry for Armstrong.

The difference is Rohit's a star in the white ball game but here he is playing like a proper Test batsman A good club batsman knows which balls to defend and which to attack, but the likes of Jason Roy and other England players only know how to play one way. Couple that with some very poor techniques such as Sibley and Lawrence who play across the line in attack and defence and it's little wonder England keep failing

From the BBC Before India played a county XI as a warm-up for this Test, the last first-class match Rohit Sharma played that wasn't a Test was in November 2015. The last time Virat Kohli played a non-Test first-class match was in November 2012, nearly nine years ago. As stated previously, the best players can play across all formats without the need for "match practice" India currently 45-0

Don't believe anything Nixon says. He gets about 1 in a 100 of his fliers right

Jennings is another one with a dodgy technique and temperament so might as well give him another go. Honestly, the cupboard is bare. Apart from one of two, this is the best we've got. It's pathetic

Excuses, excuses England's batting has been abysmal for years. Blaming the prominence of white-ball cricket for England’s continuing miserable failings is nonsense India is home of the IPL with most of their players in multi-formats but they are the 2nd best Test side in world. Change needed. Start with the manager

Another Test series and another England batting crisis Plus ca change Sibley, Crawley and Lawrence have poor techniques. I'd bank on bowlers at our club to get them out

The civil service have a name for this...... it's called "managed decline" It's a term they use when they've given up on an industry or area and are content to let it run down in a controlled way They used it to describe Liverpool in the 1980s and the term is appropriate for Rovers now That's what Waggott and Co are doing..... they're actively allowing the club to decline

This harks back to the period after Venky's took over when the club's long-time accountants, solicitors, and others all left There is obviously something going on at the club and things are not right Off pitch problems usually mean problems on the pitch. It's looking ominous; it's going to be a difficult season