Gilmour doesn’t have DM attributes, the last thing we want is Gilmour alone protecting the CB’s at any stage. He’s a playmaker. However Baleba ticks all the DM boxes.
It’s all relative isn’t it. Baleba’s costing 20% of that paid for the world’s most expensive midfielders.
Webster £20m, Estupinan £15m …. what price now for CB’s and LB’s?
Do you recall Bissouma’s early days? It was all very chaotic, over stretching for tackles he’d never win, not passing, dribbling past two opponents then hitting row Z. Unstructured.
On this one I have faith in TB’s algorithms :)
This.
Signing young players is just the first step in their journey. Chavski hoovering up players they believe Brighton are moving for, joining the vast numbers they already have under contract, is just replicating what they’ve done for 20 years. Previously gazumping Manure and other rivals...
Or a trick to force another club to move quickly, or just to get the player a huge pay rise and stay put.
Over the course of a transfer window Romano and Jacobs cover every possible base, to say I first said this on ….. .
Where they completely miss a transfer, they rush to copy posts of rivals...