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£10 Million for Leonardo WHY?????????
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Thunder Bolt
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Not 100% but it seems a reasonable assumption to make. If you know differently, do tell all.
Behind Enemy Lines
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love that, thanks for sharing. We've got a very good deal for him but Leicester are getting a player, in his prime, who'll score around 15 goals in the Premiership.
It won't be easy replacing him.
- Jun 27, 2012
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Aranalde was our Chief Scout. He joined in 2010 but left in June 2011
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/brighton/8620358.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/13861347
We signed Ulloa in Jan 2013...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21050648
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Thunder Bolt
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Ulloa was watched for 18 months before he signed, but even when he was assistant coach at Albacete, he was still in touch with the Albion, as he came back to us in September 2012. He left again just two weeks ago.
sydney
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aaaaaaaah welllllll...!!! never mind....
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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- Oct 4, 2003
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We'd been tracking Ulloa for 18 months before we signed him, we also tried to sign him in Summer 2012 transfer window but found out he wouldn't get a work permit. It's entirely possible that he was one of Aranalde's last suggestions before leaving, there is also the possibility that Aranalde became aware of Ulloa while coaching at Albacete (they were in the same div that Ulloa was playing in) and recommend him to the club anyway.
Thunder Bolt
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That's what I said above, & the fact that Aranalde returned as international scout for us in Sept. 2012.
- Jun 27, 2012
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Understood. And hard to argue that it wasn't one/if not the crucial decisions/buys/bits of our set up thats put us in the play-offs two seasons in a row.
kevtherev
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Stephenson,,,,,It certainly wasn't Burke if that's what your inferring.
kevtherev
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I think we have tucked them up good an proper. Good player, yes....£10m prem player
Not for me, but time will tell I suppose.
Not for me, but time will tell I suppose.portslade seagull
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HAs he actually signed yet ? or have they seen how slow he is
Wouldn't dream of it Kev. Only a complete lunatic would think that the head of recruitment, twelve months after starting his job, would have anything at all to do with the second largest signing in the history of the club.
kevtherev
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The question was who identified Ulloa in the first place. I was lead to believe it was Stephenson, it may not have been but it certainly wasn't Burke....So what are you getting at
I never said he never had any involvement in the eventual signing of the player.