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There are too many negatives with keeping him, like a drop in form or injury, and I dont think TB feels he can afford to let £50-60m just turn into sand, after all he's said that the club needs to be sustainable and then you have to sell top players every now and then. But another overlooked...

Only with foreign clubs though. Part of the Bosman-ruling was to give players the opportunity to do this six months before their contracts end, but in the Premier League the clubs got some kind of separate agreement where they cant approach players until the contract actually expires. Indeed...

Nope, but could threat their way out very cheapily. In a year he could say "either you sell me very cheap or I walk for free by the end of the season". But you are right, he is a Brighton player until Tony says he isnt sometime this summer.

I admire the optimism.

So you are saying he is going to sign a new contract, despite knowing that mulitple clubs that could pay him lots more and win him more titles are eager to sign him?

Bissouma leaving is inevitable. :shrug:

Tried to ship Ali J last summer and I see no reason why they would stop trying with that.

Yup. Like Potter said last summer, "buying players is very easy but its very hard to sell them."

Club currently got 36-37 players who would expect to play first team football somewhere next season so if there's going to be any signings, somewhere around 15 players needs to go. It will likely - and hopefully - be a very active summer on the "outs" side while I think only two or three are...