S-Clarke

Can't tell you that I'm afraid! (It is the cover...not a bad programme this year though tbf)

Not been quoted anywhere, but I've been told by someone who I trust and who's got their ear close to the ground. (not connected with our club, but within football and the media) Closer to the window you'll see lots of clubs drop valuations though, including us. So I hope we make the best out of this situation now...

I think he's speaking a load of rubbish personally. Cortese and the club value Puncheon at over £1m, that's why it's been incredibly hard to get clubs to take him on. He will only leave for less than that if for e.g it's a swap deal, i.e the Gorrks transfer. That guy is saying that Gorrks is staying and they're getting Puncheon for ''far less than £1m'' - there isn't a chance in hell. It's either £1m +, or 400/500k and Gorrks.

Yep, does seem a bit random. Doubt anything will come from it though.

Apparentley we've expressed an interest in signing him... http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12876_7083029,00.html

You may be right. Jaidi hasn't featured much in pre-season, but maybe that's a way to prepare him for the leeds game? (We all know that he can't play too much, or train too hard these days)

Apparently it appeared on Jaidi's facebook page in response to the article about the collapse of the deal, this was the post from saint Armstrong who found it: (not seen it in my own eyes though) "Jaidi commented on that article on his Facebook Page: "The only thing I wanted to say that we c unprofessional ... We Tunisians players!" It doesn't make any sense to me tbh!

£2m?!?!?!?!!? Not worth over £1m imo...screams of a panic signing if it happens.

I've never really understood peoples gripes with Seaborne, he's really not that bad and christ we've had worse players than him in the last 4/5 years! He's still young for a CB and prone to the odd lapse every now and then, but with the coaching that should hopefully disappear from his game. Other than that I think he's got a bit of pace about him, pretty composed on the ball and is positionally pretty strong. It's just his distribution and lapses in concentration that can let him down, but I see no reason why he can't improve.

TBF I think they've kind of been replaced by these ''fan dinners'' or whatever they were. Where a group of fans get to go and meet Cortese and have a good old chat for an evening. You get some really good write ups from fans that go to that, probably tbf you get more out of that than can be crammed into 1hour on Solent.

Just after the news was sinking in about Lee Young-Chung being out for the season with a broken leg.....Tyrone Mears, their new signing from Burnley has also broken his leg in training... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14410555.stm

It's not really though a poor return though is it. Maybe the right players haven't become available? We don't need to buy for the sake of it, we are just looking for certain players to fill certain positions. Not many...just 1 or 2 more. Only Leicester have really signed massive amounts, most other clubs have signed 2 or 3 so far. Leeds have only signed 2 players IIRC Just be patent, at least we're not adding crap to the squad as we did in previous years at this level and the prem.

Sky Sports have just done a writeup on the champiopnship: http://www.skysports.com/opinion/story/0,25212,15231_7079850,00.html

According to the reports, we wouldn't pay anything for him. QPR will give him to us and 400k for Puncheon.

QPR fans pretty much agree that he was their best CB last year, and he played 43 games out of 46 as they won the league. Would be amazing.

That's a really good point there. Would people rather we blew our entire budget in the summer, or just added one or 2 additions..... then see where we are in January, but still have a significant amount to play with if we want to ''go for it'' I know what i'd go for!

Well at least we have a similar kit now!

Interesting, would have thought it was our bid to accept...rather than us to approach them re: Gorkks?

I'd imagine it was 750k initial payment, then lots of clauses based on appearances, international apps, promotion clause etc, which could have easily taken the fee to upwards of £2m.

Personally I've only felt we needed 1 CB. We have the cultured and easy on the eye CB with Fonte, we needed someone with the same attributes as Jaidi - but younger, Gorrks gives us that. TBF to Jamel what I read about him was that he was also a Jaidi type/physical CB, so it's clear that we're probably looking to replace Jaidi long-term in that sense.

I think so! First mass-agreement on here for a long time.

I agree with that. Boro are in really dodgy waters at the moment, could fall down to L1 in the next few years if they can't find investment.

Possibly may have to be replaced, but we'll worry about that when we get to the prem. For now, this deal is too good to pass up IMO. We get rid of a total nut-job, gain 400/500k and a top championship defender. Potentially the best deal this summer...

Didn't see it on there, came up on another forum from a Leicester fan. They signed him on loan initially I think when they first got back to this level, and he got plenty of goals and prompted them to stump up £3m to sign him on a perm. deal in the summer. Since Sven came in and they started throwing silly money around he hasn't got a look in, total waste of talent IMO.

People are only really backing brighton because they spent lots of money on ''saught after'' Craig Mackail-Smith, if they had signed someone like Sam Bladock they'd be nowhere near as rated IMO.