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People are fickle. The speed they switched from loving Cucu to booing him, they can flip back on a whim. We employed Steve Coppell once.

We don't know that. Cucurella might think that though judging by the reception we gave him. If we know Pervis is off in the summer I would do it, certainly. But otherwise he'd be too expensive for a back up.

Newcastle would be an amazing spot for him to end up. They've built a really good team but are still playing Burn at LB, can see Cucurella regaining his Brighton form in that set up. Rather sickening to see how savvy Newcastle are being with their oil billions....

Ah, two years ago we brought a centre back into the team who ended up not being here the same time the following year, and then this time last year we signed a left back who ended up not being here the same time a year later. And they were two good seasons. This time next year we'll have more...

Looks like the going rate for our defenders at the moment is 50m+ Soz

Destiny, Angelino and Gomez... are we trying to form the new Spice Girls? :p

Why? I'd do exactly the same as the club. Although less effectively, no doubt :p

True though. We don't stand in the way, except in cases of a,b, etc. Its also the right thing for us to do. Not standing in the way is accepting 42m for Kalvin Phillips, or Saints selling Mane for 30m. We stand in the way all the time, Stephens, Dunk, Bridcutt, White to Leeds, Ashworth...

Reckon? Got him out of Barca reserves and into Getafes first team, quickly moved him onto the Premier league shop window, and within a season he's got two of the biggest clubs in the world trying to buy him and he'll soon be playing in the CL and possibly World Cup. All by the time he's 24...

It's also a bit selective from Naylor as well, to be fair. "Brighton don't stand in the way of any member of staff bettering themselves, provided the price and timing is right for the club". Or, to put another way, Brighton do stand in the way of members of staff bettering themselves if the...

Well, its what a lot of people think our policy is, but I'm not so sure it plays out exactly like that. What have we actually sold? Bissouma, sold after four years and >100 games in the last year of his contract, Burn, after 4 years, 70 odd appearances and now the wrong side of 30, and Ben...

Why do Chelsea want to spend that much on Cucu? They've already got Ben Chilwell

I read second hand a quote from an Athletic article about transfer requests: “It takes the heat off the owners,“That’s the only reason to do a transfer request in this day and age, so it convinces the supporters that the player doesn’t want to be there and that the club aren’t willing sellers.”...

It's harsh on Cucurella that he will ultimately be remembered by us for this, just because City want to lowball us. Arsenal came in early in the window, got to our valuation of White quickly and without leaks, and they gave us money and time to buy a floppy haired defender from Getafe. White...

It can make sense. Let's say we actually do want to sell Cucurella if we receive the 50-60m being talked about. That's a lot of money for a LB and the odds of getting more in 12 months are low. At the end of the day our best player has happened to be a LB, but I think we'd rather our best player...

He will be a model professional. At the same time, who can't imagine him glancing a look at the LB they do sign, who isn't as good as him, winning the Premier league title, playing in the latter stages of the Champions League, and feeling a little bit sad that it's not him. I couldn't...

The delay is probably more about waiting for us to find a replacement, when we do I expect the Cucu deal to move fairly quickly

Man Utds revenue dwarfs ours. Only so much of that is increased prize money, profits from their european adventures and ticket sales. The bulk of it, if I'm not wrong, is overseas income, sponsorships and the like. We'll never get to those levels, obviously, but there is surely room for...

Well, i don't think it's entirely spot on. What's the point in increasing the wages, if we have to sell the players that would command those higher wages, in order to fund them? We would like to prevent the likes of Bissouma and Cucu having their head turned elsewhere by offering them higher...

Didn't realise we had an option to buy on Izzy Brown. Not surprised we didn't take it! It's ridiculous anyway, why on earth would we want to give game time to someone else's 19 year old midfielder, when we have our own young midfielders to develop - Caicedo, Mwepu, Alzate, Mitoma, Mac...