Tony Bloom will have it covered

wilko1 · Mar 21, 2013

Lets face it Tony is a great poker player, and to do that you need to not give too much away in words or actions
And an expert in brinkmanship as well
Clearly no comment about the situation is fine, didnt he do the same when Wolves came sniffing?

I am certain that should Gus go, then Tony already has plan A, B, or even C in place
I have total faith that he would make the right choice

Icy Gull · Mar 21, 2013

I agree, we may take a step back to go forward again but I have complete faith in TB. This is whether Gus goes now or when Chelsea come calling in the summer

chucky1973 · Mar 21, 2013

its fine haveing a plan in place, but what you wont get is the ability to attract quality players from spain for nothing. also the new boss will not be able to keep the qulaity spanish flair we have here after this season. it is a disaster waiting to happen.

Icy Gull · Mar 21, 2013

chucky1973 said:
its fine haveing a plan in place, but what you wont get is the ability to attract quality players from spain for nothing. also the new boss will not be able to keep the qulaity spanish flair we have here after this season. it is a disaster waiting to happen.

Unless he speaks Spanish and likes to play continental football...which he almost certainly will do imo.

chucky1973 · Mar 21, 2013

Icy Gull said:
Unless he speaks Spanish and likes to play continental football...which he almost certainly will do imo.

Caldy??

The Merry Prankster · Mar 21, 2013

chucky1973 said:
its fine haveing a plan in place, but what you wont get is the ability to attract quality players from spain for nothing. also the new boss will not be able to keep the qulaity spanish flair we have here after this season. it is a disaster waiting to happen.

Ulloa, Spanish D and Lil' Wayne will be on his list. Probabably Bridcutt as well. Would be a train wreck.

wilko1 · Mar 21, 2013

Whos to say Tony wont have all of this covered

chucky1973 said:
its fine haveing a plan in place, but what you wont get is the ability to attract quality players from spain for nothing. also the new boss will not be able to keep the qulaity spanish flair we have here after this season. it is a disaster waiting to happen.

chucky1973 · Mar 21, 2013

wilko1 said:
Whos to say Tony wont have all of this covered

whats to say he has? Gus would be very very hard to replace bearing in mind where a huge percentage of our recent players have come from. he is fluent in Spanish. its a massive draw for players.

DavidinSouthampton · Mar 21, 2013

Agree with the OP.

I don't think Gus would go, but if he does I would not be surprised to learn there is a short list of candidates to replace, and not the usual suspects.

And agreements/stipulations could be put in place to prevent him coming back for players, although that would not work, presumably, for players who came out of contract.

Blue Valkyrie · Mar 21, 2013

chucky1973 said:
whats to say he has? Gus would be very very hard to replace bearing in mind where a huge percentage of our recent players have come from. he is fluent in Spanish. its a massive draw for players.

When I went to a SOL meeting a couple of years back, Tony was asked the very question about Gus leaving. He said he would always have a list of 10 or 12 replacements in mind ready for the eventuality even if some on the list were not available at the time.

Tony is ready, you can trust that, and he will have all issues regarding player retention etc. covered.

Surport Local Team · Mar 21, 2013

Would tony be able to make reading or who ever sign any agreement that they can not sign any brighton player for say 18 months, if reading do not sign we do not release gus

Brian Fantana · Mar 21, 2013

Surport Local Team said:
Would tony be able to make reading or who ever sign any agreement that they can not sign any brighton player for say 18 months, if reading do not sign we do not release gus

It has been done recently with another club, I'm sure. I can't remember who it was though.

Blue Valkyrie · Mar 21, 2013

Surport Local Team said:
Would tony be able to make reading or who ever sign any agreement that they can not sign any brighton player for say 18 months, if reading do not sign we do not release gus

Even with that we could still see Bridge, David and Vicente at Reading.

sten_super · Mar 21, 2013

Brian Fantana said:
It has been done recently with another club, I'm sure. I can't remember who it was though.

Rogers had an agreement not to sign any Swansea players for 12 months. Presumably he then just mentioned to the Swansea chairman that he was willing to pay £15m for Joe Allen, because that deal still managed to happen!

deletebeepbeepbeep · Mar 21, 2013

Trust In Bloom

SuperWill · Mar 21, 2013

wilko1 said:
Lets face it Tony is a great poker player, and to do that you need to not give too much away in words or actions
And an expert in brinkmanship as well
Clearly no comment about the situation is fine, didnt he do the same when Wolves came sniffing?

I am certain that should Gus go, then Tony already has plan A, B, or even C in place
I have total faith that he would make the right choice

Totally agree, and it will be more evolution rather than revolution.

Think he may well follow Swansea's route if Gus does decide to go.

Brian Fantana · Mar 21, 2013

sten_super said:
Rogers had an agreement not to sign any Swansea players for 12 months. Presumably he then just mentioned to the Swansea chairman that he was willing to pay £15m for Joe Allen, because that deal still managed to happen!

That's the example of I was thinking of - cheers!

Pavilionaire · Mar 21, 2013

I'm reassured that Barber was in the meeting with Gus and Reading. Barber will be feeding back to Tony where we stand, and I do not expect Barber to be letting the grass grow under his feet on this.

The X Factor in all of this is in which division each club will be in next season. Our best players will be expecting Reading to go down and they will believe they have a shot of going up. However, if Reading stay up and we don't get promoted then you have to fear for our side, especially as the Reading owner has already shown he isn't prepared to spend big by buying practically no one last summer. Poyet will probably feel he could get three of our best players for under £10million, which is just the ticket for Zingarevich.

I don't know how clued up Bloom is but Barber is a shrewd operator, having worked closely with Daniel Levy whilst at Spurs - Levy does not mess about. Interestingly, Barber was at Spurs and was instrumental when Levy fired Juande Ramos and Poyet and replaced them with Redknapp.

Icy Gull · Mar 21, 2013

Pavilionaire said:
I don't know how clued up Bloom is but Barber is a shrewd operator, having worked closely with Daniel Levy whilst at Spurs - Levy does not mess about. Interestingly, Barber was at Spurs and was instrumental when Levy fired Juande Ramos and Poyet and replaced them with Redknapp.

Now that is interesting, I didn't know that.

nwgull · Mar 21, 2013

Surport Local Team said:
Would tony be able to make reading or who ever sign any agreement that they can not sign any brighton player for say 18 months, if reading do not sign we do not release gus

We can name our price for contracted players (e.g. Ulloa and Bridcutt) in the transfer window; if they're prepared to pay us silly transfer fees, then good luck to them. However, any agreement to say that he will not sign players that are out of contract at the end of the season would contravene employment rights of the players.

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