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Starting my drive there at about half 7 tomorrow morning, gonna be a long day! You staying in Lens or further out? 2-0 Lens both scored by Elye Wahi, who we bring back with us!

The only player I know they have kind of managed that with was Thomas Henry - signed at 24 for €500k and then sold for €5.5m after 3 seasons Recently they actually seem to be doing quite well with bringing through academy players and then selling them on for good fees, last summer and this summer: €3.5m for Louis Patris €8m for Mandela Keita €2m for Richie Sagrado They have got a few more players now that they have signed young or brought through the academy that they would likely get decent fees for if they sold them like Tobe Leysen, Ewoud Pletinckx, and Joël Schingtienne

Yeah but he was on loan last season to Antwerp with an obligation to buy so he hasn’t really been their player since Summer 2023 Yet still at that point he would’ve been a great signing for us

As it is a player I desperately want us to sign… @Finnegan Tier 1 Source

Of the 3 Keita is the one I would prefer as well

Probably be a case of we will only send you on loan if you sign a new deal

Interestingly yet another deal pretty much completely done that has come out of nowhere

Based on our current position I think it may be a good move, still not sure he is good enough to be that big creative spark we absolutely need though (if that will be his role) I think this kind of deal just fully sums up the fall off we have experienced

2 years ago the idea of loaning a young relatively inexperienced player from Brighton with no option to buy and effectively develop him for them would be crazy What a fall off

Hopefully we still sign someone else to be our “star” creative player and he will be the back up - unfortunately I doubt Brighton would let us have him on loan if that was the case though His record so far in the Prem with Brighton: 40 appearances 23 starts 1,931 minutes played 21.5 90s 4 goals 2 assists Goal contribution every 322 minutes - every 3.6 games Quite a bit of that has been playing as a right winger as well

Shocking deal.

Unless the club says he will be definitely be part of the first team or going out on loan I wouldn’t blame him for not signing a new deal - he doesn’t need another season in the under 21s From his very little game time in pre-season it doesn’t look like he will have much involvement in the first team, especially if we do sign a new number 10

Strangely only seen him linked with the likes of Sheff Wed, Derby, and Birmingham You would think mid table and above Championship teams would be the ones fighting over him

Had a look around entirely because I absolutely despise the idea of us having to deal with Ward being our number 2 for potentially at least 6 months Michael Cooper - only has 1 year left on his contract at Plymouth (offer Iversen in the deal) Tobe Leysen - doing very well for Leuven and about time we took advantage of them being our sister club (sorry Leuven) Juan Musso - only has 1 year left on his contract at Atalanta

I wouldn't spend £10m but if Iversen goes I definitely think we need a new number 2 ideally on loan or very cheap We are just an injury to Hermansen away from Ward playing for us in the Prem again

Wouldn't surprise me at all if they came in for Mads if they sold Ederson Would not be happy with Johnstone as his replacement if we did sell him though

Gonna try and find it as I am sure it has been in an article before but isn't it like even during the season the top brass only do a proper meeting once a month over Teams or something like that? I remember it being ridiculous whatever it was

Why does him being relegated show that he isn't any better of them? A player being relegated gives no indication of that players overall quality

€15m which was around £12.6m at the time of the deal which was also the value of the TOTAL package - also with the value spread across a 5 year deal for PSR You only deem it a complete waste of money because I assume you probably believe that ALL of Faes, Coady, Souttar, Vestergaard, and Nelson are good enough for the Prem even though none of them play on the left side of a defence or have much if any pace? (which Okoli can do and has)

Hagi hasn't really done anything of note for about 4 or 5 years has he? Be a hell of a risk for him to be our creative midfielder

Didn't cost £15m (£12.6m Total package at the time the deal was done) and it hasn't changed Nelson's position in the pecking order at all as we have moved someone out which we were very likely always going to be doing

I mean with regards to the player himself. It of course makes no sense (or maybe it does make sense in context of it being Leicester/Rudkin) that we are having to buy a player our owners have already owned

Mandela Keita is the one Unfortunately it makes too much sense to sign him and it is going to piss me off big time when he goes somewhere else and smashes it

We don’t actually know that the bid was only made for Soulé because the club thought Chelsea would buy Hermansen though