[Albion] Levi Colwill

[Deadly Danson]

How does he know this, does he know some old folk from The Mirror ?

A few questions here. If this is the case, and Chelsea have no intention, then it's Caicedo and Arsenal in reverse.

In this case I suspect he's guessing because it's hard to prove either way. There is zero chance Barber will have leaked it to him. I guess it's not impossible Colwill's agent suspects this is what will happen and has told Fab but "preparing a bid" sounds like what any of us would assume to be happening next in the saga.

 

[Springal]

In this case I suspect he's guessing because it's hard to prove either way. There is zero chance Barber will have leaked it to him. I guess it's not impossible Colwill's agent suspects this is what will happen and has told Fab but "preparing a bid" sounds like what any of us would assume to be happening next in the saga.

Why zero chance ?

Barber tells stuff to TalkSport (Alex Crook & Jim White) when he needs to

 

[Eeyore]

I reckon you use the term ‘folk’ in 50% of your posts. Not a criticism, just an observation. I read them in my head with a Yorkshire accent in fact

The background may well be that my work, for a long time, centred around Yorkshire. But I think the real origin is that I feel the word is less harsher than 'People'. It feels warmer. Not that I should feel any warmth towards tabloids.

What's quite interesting is how a repeated word then gets used sub consciously by others. The 'folk' word is often used by others I know more regularly and even in here. For a long time I have been involved in event planning, but I started using the term 'gigs' instead of events (very unapplicable in my work). Now most of my work colleagues use the word.

I started using the term 'Edition' for annual threads on here and now others use that too. Given that I'm the least influential person in Not Very Influential Land, I would assume that those who subscribe to neo-linguistic theories have a point.

 

[Affy]

If the boot was on the other foot. And he was ours with Chelsea sniffing, we’d be demanding in excess of £50-£60m for him - left footed, highly rated, likely to be future England star, filling a known whole in defence, adored by fans and likes the club.
All reasons Chelsea can demand a higher fee for him. I wouldn't be upset if we paid circa £55m for him. I think he is excellent and will only get better. This will be a transfer where we are highly unlikely to make money if it does happen. But that’s ok every once in a while.

 

[Deadly Danson]

Why zero chance ?

Barber tells stuff to TalkSport (Alex Crook & Jim White) when he needs to

Do you honestly think Barber (head of the team who always conduct their business pretty much in secret) has suddenly decided the tell Fab that we are "preparing a bid" and give him the exact figure? I don't buy it for one second. Which is not to say it hasn't come from Colwill's agent but it could equally be a logical guess.

 

[Seasider78]

If the boot was on the other foot. And he was ours with Chelsea sniffing, we’d be demanding in excess of £50-£60m for him - left footed, highly rated, likely to be future England star, filling a known whole in defence, adored by fans and likes the club.
All reasons Chelsea can demand a higher fee for him. I wouldn't be upset if we paid circa £55m for him. I think he is excellent and will only get better. This will be a transfer where we are highly unlikely to make money if it does happen. But that’s ok every once in a while.

We let White go for £50m and that was after 36 appearances in the PL, being a championship player of the season and being in the Euro 2020 England squad.

Colwill has potential but he is nowhere near the level White was when we sold him.

 

[Springal]

Do you honestly think Barber (head of the team who always conduct their business pretty much in secret) has suddenly decided the tell Fab that we are "preparing a bid" and give him the exact figure? I don't buy it for one second. Which is not to say it hasn't come from Colwill's agent but it could equally be a logical guess.

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Not impossible Barber or Weir would use him if they thought it’d make a difference

 

[WhingForPresident]

They're not going to brief that he 'is for sale' are they?

He may need to make it clear he wants to leave to make it happen, but I'm pretty optimistic.

 

[Deadly Danson]

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Not impossible Barber or Weir would use him if they thought it’d make a difference

I guess we'll never know. I think we all assume a 2nd bid would go in so it's no great surprise. I think I could have come up with that "exclusive".

 

[brighton_tom]

If the £40m bid is true, and it might not be because how would fab know if we’re “preparing” a bid, then we must be pretty confident that Levi wants to join. I don’t think we’d waste our time going back with another bid if Chelsea had said no to selling AND Levi had also indicated he was happy there.

 

[Mancgull]

They need sales before the end of this month. Mount and Havertz are attracting attention but perhaps Chelsea need £100m+ in sales ASAP to balance things. I think the club might smell blood here. Chelsea might simply have to sell to avoid punishment.

Didn’t Bhoely invite Tony Bloom, amongst others, to Chelsea back in March to pitch the idea of purchasing some of their unwanted players. That’s like showing your cards to TB in a game of poker. ( appreciate that Colwill wasn’t on the ‘unwanted list’)

 

[The Fits]

People still doubting Romano even though he seemingly had an exclusive on the Mac deal weeks ago and seemed to know more about the deal than Naylor even up to yesterday.

 

[The Fits]

Didn’t Bhoely invite Tony Bloom, amongst others, to Chelsea back in March to pitch the idea of purchasing some of their unwanted players. That’s like showing your cards to TB in a game of poker. ( appreciate that Colwill wasn’t on the ‘unwanted list’)

Interesting.

 

[peterward]

We let White go for £50m and that was after 36 appearances in the PL, being a championship player of the season and being in the Euro 2020 England squad.

Colwill has potential but he is nowhere near the level White was when we sold him.

I'm not sure about that?

Ultimately our set up is to buy low, polish rough diamonds, and sell high.

But we still do spend a reasonable amount of millions on players that don't make the grade and aren't sold at many multiples or even sold at a loss.

The Ben White, Cucurella, MacAllister model is our ideal, but if we can buy a player with a reasonable degree of certainty they won't shed their value, I'd say it is still worth it.

Is 9 million on Abdallah Sima better business than say 40m on Colwill, even if we only got 30m back in a few years?

Chances are with his skill level, being left footed and age, we could get a few good years without losing much if anything, and therefore its still a good investment even if outside our normal model.

 

[Icy Gull]

Didn’t Bhoely invite Tony Bloom, amongst others, to Chelsea back in March to pitch the idea of purchasing some of their unwanted players. That’s like showing your cards to TB in a game of poker. ( appreciate that Colwill wasn’t on the ‘unwanted list’)

I gather Tony laughed when they rolled Cucu out

 

[The Fits]

I would be so, so excited about this. I don't think he's been as good as pundits have said and maybe we feel. He's been really impressive. But it's potential. His ceiling is exceptionally high and he's a shoe in for the England team in the next year or two, perhaps even alongside Dunk for a season or so. Signing Colwill would be the absolute perfect antidote to losing Mac and possibly Moises.
Also, for a player with so much hype to WANT to leave a club like Chelsea for us feels massive. I know it happened with Gilmour and Lamptey, but this would feel like a huge statement.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

If true we would surely be on track to spend £120-150m this summer. Astonishing.

 

[The Wizard]

People still doubting Romano even though he seemingly had an exclusive on the Mac deal weeks ago and seemed to know more about the deal than Naylor even up to yesterday.

Can you explain to me how Romano would know we are ‘about’ to put in a bid of £40m?

The only people who would know a bid is being prepared are the board, so is one of our board members a mole for Romano?

This just seems like decent guess work, we were always going to go in with another bid as 30m was far too low.

 

[peterward]

If true we would surely be on track to spend £120-150m this summer. Astonishing.

Remember the days when spending 120k was massive!

 

[Dave the OAP]

Chelsea fans losing their shit over this.

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seemly we are bullying them into selling Colwill.