Farmer Saint

Only Everton (hmmm, maybe Chelsea) would be stupid enough to spend £35m on a player who suffers like he does...

They weren't with us in 2023-2024.

But they weren't part of it (well BBD & Suga were - Suga is likely to be staying and I don't think anyone thought BBDs attitude would be so shit). I think you're getting sucked into what some other posters have been gaslighting people with, because that wasn't what I said. I said that due to PSR (hence all the piss takes about me mentioning PSR) and the fact that we had to spend £40m of our transfer budget to go backwards after losing Adams and Armstrong (which was confirmed by Solak earlier this Summer), we decided to spread our bets. - Established prem players on loans or frees (including the fact we thought we'd get our money back on Ramsdale easily - so a glorified loan - unfortunately Ramsdale was not as good as we thought he'd be and so moved down PL teams lists). - Young upside players with likely future profits. - Established and high end Championship players for the likely scenario that we get relegated, but with potential that they may develop into something better. The fact that Kraft etc did such a piss poor job and we flamed out so badly, meant that we ripped up the current scouting and purchasing strategy and replaced the whole lot, hence Sports coming in.

Good job, and I agree 💪

Well, which of those players are leaving?

(Dibling will most likely stay)

I would say management issues as well - but having Bednarek and Stephens anywhere near a PL lineup doesn't help, as does having no decent strikers or creativity for the last 5 years or so.

Christ I'm spending a lot of time agreeing with Hypo at the moment.

4 of the 6 were here last year and it made no difference. I don't think the yo-yo thing is all SRs fault in all honesty, it's football if you are not a big boy. All it takes is a few of bad transfer windows and you're fucked, and that can happen to anyone. Ask 2015 PL winners Leicester. Brighton could easily fuck up one of these days with a few dodgy high value signings (which may be this year tbh). Every club is a couple of years of bad transfers away from being the newest yo-yo club, the difference is we are trying to embrace it and hope one of these years we get lucky.

We bought a lot of shit then as well. Do Ramsdale, Fernandes, Lavia, Livramento, THB, KWP not count as good purchases?

No PL team is buying either of them though.

So, Fernandes will likely be off this Summer which is a shame. Issue will be around fee, and not pissing off Mendes. Figures from us look to be around £40-£45m for foreign clubs (€50m), and £50-£55m for PL.

Fairly obvious considering he joined us. I don't think he joined us cos we're an amazing pull.

He's a famous NFL QB, retired last year.

Been on an Atlanta Falcons forum to look at their opinions of Matt Ryan. The main takeaways were he has an excellent throw, but he is not the most mobile and can wilt under pressure.

Exactly, so win-win.

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Except he will likely return when we get back into the Prem next season.

Would have been 15 if it weren't for their keeper.

Didn't a depleted Wrexham once play the US women's National team when they were in League 2? The US team were 7-0 down in 19 minutes or something.

Ah, but is he worse than Batistuta? I said "silly" as a term of endearment, but look forward to seeing Still's quotes on getting rid of Wood, Edwards, Downes, BBD and Archer. I also look forward to tomorrow's installment of player comparisons. Will it be "Smallbone: Just like Zidane", or maybe "Ryan Manning, the Irish Roberto Carlos"? "James Bree, more comparable to Thuram or Cafu?"

I'm talking about Still's quotes you silly fucker.

I genuinely have no idea what you are saying? Batistuta was a bonafide superstar. He scored 168 goals in 269 games for Fiorentina and 56 in 78 for Argentina. In 1994 he scored 26 goals in the league, and over 20 goals the next 3 seasons. I will ask you again, what in fucks name are you talking about?

Really, sorry I haven't seen those quotes. Would be good to see them. You are wetting the bed at things that haven't happened yet. I would suggest you just wait until the end of the transfer window before calling the Wambulance.

Alongside Batistuta?