Clive Walker
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[Albion] Moises Caicedo - New contract signed until summer 2027 with 1 year extra option.
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Silverhatch
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If Brighton make him our first £100,000 a week player on a 10-year contract, and we have European football then he might be minded to stay another season. Same goes for World Cup winner AliMac. But of course, the club will then be getting into Leicester City territory and they’re dealing with the fallout from that strategy right now. Glad I’m not our billionaire fan chairman. It must be a head f***.
The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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As am I: but we have nothing to lose by keeping him till the summer, on the off chance we do get a European spot it’s worth keeping him that extra 6 months.
Moises is a very humble guy, I can’t see him throwing a tantrum yet.
Precisely. And they’re throwing out loads of names in the hope that one of their targets will become unsettled. Matt Law at the Telegraph appears to be Chelsea’s unofficial spokesman. He’s dropped Mac Allister into his latest Stamford Bridge bulletin too, just to cover all bases. This pisses me off far more than anything else. We can’t do much about the rich clubs flexing their muscles but the way they go about it stinks.
Chairman isn't wired like that at all......for him it's simply a calm progression of the long term strategy. Find an unpolished diamond, polish it, sell it for an absolute fortune whilst in the meantime finding and polishing another one (or growing his own in the academy) - and most of the time (accepting it won't be all the time) the replacement being better than the one being replaced. Rinse and repeat.
Silverhatch
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I implicitly get that. The point I was trying to make is that Bloom is a MASSIVE Brighton fan too and despite his wiring there must be a part of him that screams f*** off when every wannabe gobshite on twitter links our players with ‘bigger’ clubs. It may just be for a second but surely he does it.
Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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True and then his eyes go into fruit machine mode
southstandandy
WEST STAND ANDY
- Jul 9, 2003
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I'll take Mudryk and Sterling if Chelsea want Caicedo.
...and Colwill. 3-for-1 deal, take it or leave it
southstandandy
WEST STAND ANDY
- Jul 9, 2003
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Agreed, but surely it would be cheaper for Chelsea to go and get players like Caicedo before us. Would save them a fortune. Man Utd could have had him 2 years ago but messed about and missed out. Chelsea should do some homework and copy our strategy.
More desperate uninformed shite from Billy Bullshit
They're already doing that, signing some second division Brazilian before this transfer window.
Historically, PL teams haven't bothered with SA talents before they prove themselves in another European league. Too much hassle with scouting, work permits, dealing with wonky ownerships and adapting these youngsters to England. Think that is about to slowly change however, but Brighton seem to be in the drivers seat when it comes to picking up good SA talent (except for Brazilians as they are quite expensive).
This is why I thought they got Potter and the team tbh. They have that academy but the majority of the players never make it through to the first team. Sure people will point to Mount, James etc but they have barely a handful who have made it and that more luck and a transfer embargo, than design.
My thought was that Potter was hired to start bringing them through, and getting more out of the academy and into the first team. The problem is that fans might like it but aren’t willing to accept the time it takes to make it happen.
Remains to be seen if they're going to do like any sensible club and completely ignore the fans.
Just an opener to unsettle the lad, and entice his agent IMO.
Potter doesn’t even like wingers! He’d probably agree to that deal if he had any sort of influence in Chelsea’s transfers rather than the none at all he has at the moment.
BluesRockDJ
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They probably will now , considering Winstanley has joined the traitor exodus !!
Strange since he has been using wingers frequently in all of his clubs so far.