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It still feels a bit weird that Chelsea, multiple premier league and champions league winning Chelsea, are buying players from little old Brighton for £63m and stealing our song! We've come a long long way since Withdean.

Andy Naylor and others have tweeted quite a lot this morning about the deal being pretty much done for £56m upfront and £7m in add ons. & a season loan to us for Levi Colwill. Argus now also saying “more than £60m”.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheAthleticUK/status/1555468650836099072?cxt=HHwWgIC8heWfkZYrAAAA £63m!!!

This is the part that confuses me. If the deal is not complete, but it is close, and the finer details of it are being discussed then why have the club put out that statement? Why not just say nothing until its all done, and then make our announcement with the correct details of the deal...

Where has this been said? Unless it’s a loan with option to buy then I’d doubt it. A straight loan doesn’t make much sense for us.

First we had the moron City fans telling us we’re greedy for wanting more than £30m. Now we have Chelsea fans having a breakdown because they think our £50m valuation was met but now we’re apparently changing the goalposts by asking for more, & not realising that the 50 figure is just something...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62378757 They need to balance the books, according to Rodgers.

Chelsea getting involved is absolutely brilliant for us. I’d love MC to stay but if he’s off, which is very likely, then a bidding war between Chelsea and City is perfect. Chelsea getting involved completely ruins City’s “it’s £30/40m or nothing, we’ll walk away from the deal” stance.

Sky Sports are reporting that Chelsea are trying to do a deal with Leicester for centre back Fofana. The reported fee is £85m…. But we should happy with £35m and a pat on the head. :ffsparr:

The best move we can make is to play him. Show City that the transfer request means little to us.

Maybe not. But its certainly not a positive thing.

Yep very disappointing. I could even maybe understand things more if City had offered in the £40/45m, there was only a week to go in the window, and we still didnt look like negotiating. But they've offered just £30m, nowhere near his true value, and there's still a month of the window to go...

He does seem strangely active on this particular transfer, posting almost every day but with no new info. Just vague ramblings about MC not being happy or that personal terms wont be a problem etc. It's like there's some sort of personal interest in it.

If their only bid turns out to be one of £30m, and then they walk away when we dare to ask for more then i'd hope Marc would realise that figure isnt enough for a transfer to happen and so there's not too much to be upset about. If they really wanted him they would come back with further bids...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6OaYLjWlFSmutHdpPkat5a?si=IAQpQDGNQc-8Nsfll96DCA Nothing ground breaking in this but I stumbled across a man city Spotify podcast in which Andy Naylor is a guest and explains Brighton’s stance regarding Marc.

I saw the twitter stuff. Seemed like it was suggested that the new bid was an initial fee, plus adds on which totalled £40m. All part of the mind games in the negotiating process i guess but like you say, what's the point? Will only get rejected.

So City have sold their only left back before they signed a new one? Kind of weakens their negotiating position. If they do come for Marc we need to rinse them for so much money.

Ake barely gets a game for them and is valued at £40-50m. Spends his city career sitting on the bench, and they want more money for him than they originally paid. & yet we're the ones apparently with an unrealistic valuation of our player? If reports are to be believed they also seem to want...

Think that was Danny Murphy. I dont get what they expect. I know its talkshite but it only takes 30 seconds of thinking about it to get on board with our valuation. Yeah lets give one of our best players away to mega rich man city for say £30m, an amount that is peanuts to them, all the while...

I don’t have a Twitter account to log in and double check but others are saying that “like” by Marc on the Man City related tweet has now been removed.