Machiavelli
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[Albion] Joel Veltman signs from Ajax in a 3-year deal
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You normally get things right, and provide a welcome corrective to the doommongers
The Wookiee
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Has Veltman had a falling out with Van Gaal ?
He hasn’t been picked for the National team for ages, which is odd as he is arguably playing the best football of his career so far.
He hasn’t been picked for the National team for ages, which is odd as he is arguably playing the best football of his career so far.
warmleyseagull
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My mate who is a STH at Brighton says he is shithouse.
Icy Gull
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Same was said by a STH holder at Ajax before we signed him. Bloom Out, Barber Out, Potter Out
I’m fine with the direction of the club at every level. “…. lights out” was just a quip with a
I’m well versed, unlike some, in NOT getting a boner every time Fabrizio Romano or Football Insider publish zzzzzzz noise.
Regarding:
Veltman - I hope he’s with us for many seasons to come. My favourite Albion player, what a man-god
Cucurella - he’s transformed our left flank. But £60m and a quality LB/LWB signing will be just the medicine.
I actually take all the alleged interest in our players as a huge compliment to Bloom, Winstanley and Potter.
100% this. Our top players are coveted by the very top teams, our Technical Director gets poached by the team likely to be investing more than any other globally in the next few years, our academy is churning out players by the dozen, our scouting network somehow still manages to come up with 'surprises' despite the resources thrown at this area by hundreds of clubs globally.............it's fantastic
Change at Barnham
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I did a tour of the Ajax Stadium last week.
There are photo opportunities linked to all the great Ajax players.
I made sure I got a photo of me sitting in Joel's changing room seat.
There are photo opportunities linked to all the great Ajax players.
I made sure I got a photo of me sitting in Joel's changing room seat.
Yes .... but apart from all that!
Machiavelli
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I really can't see how any other view to that provided in recent posts can be made. This is about as exciting as it gets within the context we have to operate.
I’d be more than happy if we could achieve positions on or around 8th to 10th in most seasons, albeit with more home wins. The extent of my ambition. Perhaps cup runs, Europa League.
In a division increasingly brimming with sportswashers cash or Yanks promising £b investments (Chelsea, Everton the very latest), the aforementioned hopes would be an incredible achievement.
Potter’s key ….. and eventually his successor.
Bloom and Barbour have strategically driven all this, to me literally everything’s been exemplary.
FWIW I’m not sure he goes this window. I know with lure of money and what can be done it doesn’t mean a lot - but his wife is heavily pregnant, he’s just moved house and he seems happy and being a regular important first team member means a lot. Roma highest paid player is apparently Dzeko on €95k a week - but the rest seem to be €50k-€80k - so If anything a new deal wouldn’t surprise me.
Speaking of which I’m surprised by the apparent lack of progress of new deals for many of the players with not long left on their deals
Speaking of which I’m surprised by the apparent lack of progress of new deals for many of the players with not long left on their deals
Machiavelli
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Remember that the reason we got JV so cheaply is because he had a clause in his contract saying that if a PL (and not a Serie A or Liga) club came in, he could go if the release fee was met. He's got another year, and a further year's option. I'm less concerned about JV's situation, and far more with Ali Mac.
I don't know the salaries our top players are paid but, given we're about 15th in the PL player wage table, I suspect that we'll need to up the figures of our better players if they're going to sign new contracts.
I don't know the salaries our top players are paid but, given we're about 15th in the PL player wage table, I suspect that we'll need to up the figures of our better players if they're going to sign new contracts.
Yep, and regularly selling a top player to a CL club in part provides the funding to allow us do that………
GT49er
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Yes, but not if we don't get the right price, and get low-balled for players who's heads have been turned and/or are too close to the end of their contracts.
Not Velts (at his age) but could be Ali Mac at some point perhaps…..my comment was more aimed at anyone getting too down about the possibility of Cucurella going.
I know websites/hacks are guessing when they mention player wages, but I wonder what Veltman’s paid? Is it up there with our highest (Dunk, Lallana, Welbeck?)?
A consistently great RB and team-player, I would love to hear that he’s been offered and signed an enhanced contract by the Albion.
Don't remember where but it was said in Dutch media that he doubled the €1m/year salary he had in Ajax. No idea if it is true or not.
Looking now online, that £2m a season crops up everywhere.
Fantastic value for an EPL top half first-teamer.
Machiavelli
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Despite your and Swanny's amateur detective work, my hunch is you (and, more importantly, your sources) are both wrong. We will have no idea about players salaries, bonuses, release clauses, and so on. The club are fastidious at never officially announcing transfer fees either, whether ins or outs -- and these are more widely known than wages.