[Albion] Viktor Gyokeres

[Farehamseagull]

Potter’s pulled some strings for his old club?

Possibly but they're also a good fit for us as a club to loan players to.

Good progressive young manager, play decent football and did very well with Brewster and Gallagher on loan last year.

 

[Bakero]

One thing with languages and speaking them when you go abroad is dialects. If you learn Spanish well, it is apparently easy to be understood in Madrid and cities like Salamanca and Valladollid, but if you go to Andalucia the dialect is quite thick and hard to understand

Andalusian Spanish is more efficient. Consonants are overrated anyway and why pronounce 4 syllables when you could just use 2.

 

[Bald Gull]

Potter’s pulled some strings for his old club?

It's one thing to loan him (which I think is exactly the right thing to do as long as we get another forward in) but the option to buy seems very odd to me... Why give anyone an option? If he does well, they'll get him for far less than they would in the open market and if he does badly, they just won't take him permanently (unless it's not an option at all and more of a commitment like Knockaert)

 

[Swansman]

Potter’s pulled some strings for his old club?

Doubt it got a lot to do with that, aside from some players and the owners (who are not involved in the club) there is basically no one left from when Potter was around.

 

[Stat Brother]

It's just not as easy as we think. I've been sucked into the All or Nothing, Spurs season documentary on Prime. It is actually quite good for nuturing a healthy sense of loathing, but nevertheless, Jose 'I'm in this top stratosphere' Mourinho made the point, and Daniel 'The Snake' Levy how difficult it is to get a transfer done. Selling club, buying club, player, player's WAG, player's agent; all need to agree for it to happen. £28m rising to £33m for Ollie Watkins, that just isn't our market...is it?

It very much is the Albion's market.

They can't pay £20m for a centre back.
Offer £25m for a centre forward.

Then say £28m is in a hyper inflation bubble and too expensive.


A new striker will arrive.
He will either be a £25+m

Or

A 'moneyball' 18 month stop gap, if the club believe they a kid who might just come through.

 

[Swansman]

It's one thing to loan him (which I think is exactly the right thing to do as long as we get another forward in) but the option to buy seems very odd to me... Why give anyone an option? If he does well, they'll get him for far less than they would in the open market and if he does badly, they just won't take him permanently (unless it's not an option at all and more of a commitment like Knockaert)

Probably a pretty high buyout clause and perhaps a requirement for them to be willing to take him on (and I think the club really wanted him to go on loan to the Championship and not ie Bundesliga 2).

As I said, no chance they can buy him unless they get promoted (very unlikely) and definitely no commitment to buy.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Probably a pretty high buyout clause and perhaps a requirement for them to be willing to take him on (and I think the club really wanted him to go on loan to the Championship and not ie Bundesliga 2).

As I said, no chance they can buy him unless they get promoted (very unlikely) and definitely no commitment to buy.

Actually glad there is an option on this one, can’t be doing this again next summer


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[GT49er]

Off to Swansea on loan apparently.

Any confirmation of this rumour anywhere?

 

[blockhseagull]

Any confirmation of this rumour anywhere?

The Argus ?

 

[SimpKingpin]

If this is true, I would say we must be pretty confident of bringing in a new striker. And soon.

It’s not very “Brighton” to just let Murray and Gyokeres walk out the door without some sort of replacement.

There was another month left in the window. We could have held on to them for a bit longer if needed (and I think they are).


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[HantsSeagull]

If this is true, I would say we must be pretty confident of bringing in a new striker. And soon.

It’s not very “Brighton” to just let Murray and Gyokeres walk out the door without some sort of replacement.

There was another month left in the window. We could have held on to them for a bit longer if needed (and I think they are).


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you're kidding right?

 

[southstandandy]

Would the last striker to leave the club please turn out the lights!

 

[GT49er]

The Argus ?

It was in The Argus? OK. Hadn't seen any links to anything. Nothing on official site - any club tweets or anything? Emails from Paul Barber ........?

 

[blue-shifted]

Would the last striker to leave the club please turn out the lights!

We will be absolutely fine .... if Connolly and Maupay don't lose form, get injured or suspended between now and May.

Nothing can go wrong. Nothing can go wrong

 

[albionalex]

It’s not very “Brighton” to just let Murray and Gyokeres walk out the door without some sort of replacement.

It's exactly what we did with Andone and Locadia last summer.

 

[Swansman]

It's exactly what we did with Andone and Locadia last summer.

Connolly was their replacement.

 

[southstandandy]

Connolly was their replacement.

But who on day 1 would have predicted he would end up playing 27 matches?

This is why I would hold on to Gyokeres as you never know he could have a similar impact to Connolly.

 

[albionalex]

Connolly was their replacement.

But he was already part of the squad. So it wasn't really a replacement as such.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Any confirmation of this rumour anywhere?

The Argus ?

The Argus confirms the possibility, not that it is 100% happening.

 

[SimpKingpin]

It's exactly what we did with Andone and Locadia last summer.

Andone started the season. I was at the home match with Southampton, unfortunately...only home game I got to attend since I'm not in UK anymore.

So we started with 4 strikers, then Potter was shot of Andone and we continued with 3 strikers.

Now, in contrast, we are starting with 2 strikers? Seems a bit more extreme.