funkyrobot

Hes the most experienced at delivering regular no-look starfishes tbf.

Yeh I get what people are saying about Praet. He’s never fit, seemed to be blowing after 25 mins. He was anonymous yesterday (and generally) and seem to pull out of challenges, BUT (and it is a BIG but) he did once do that fab assist to the assist against Brentford in the FA Cup and as such he should be front of queue for any Statues - ahead even of Goat Vardy.

If Caicedo is worth £100m then KDH has to be worth more than £30m.

Worse thing is he stays down, slowing and stopping the game usually when we have the momentum. If he could sort that fragility out, also his trampoline first touch, his finishing (at times) and his strange chasing and closing down of a player that involves him letting the opponent with the ball get past and ahead of him, then that would be great!

Very half hearted in challenging and pressing the ball, Yunus came on and showed him how to do it. The swapping of Praet for Akgun swung the game back in our favour.

They aren’t tho? They are getting half a million for a player with 6 months of his contract left

Yeh now they’ve traded that for 5 years of Tielemans sitting on a £150k a week contract until the bitter end.

He’d be mad to go to those teams now anyway.

Or one of the other giants of the Premier league like Brentford and Fulham. Fed up of these massive clubs sniffing round our players.

What a rubbish draw. Bournemouth away ffs. Glen Johnson hang your head in shame - that was very poor ball picking mate. 😂

The fact KDH has performed well in the Premier League kind of ruins your theory a bit tbf.

Felt this lad deserved his own thread as he had a great debut. Already a full Jamaican international, he looked good on the ball and the ‘assist’ that Vardy sadly fluffed was a thing of beauty.

I thought Akgun was excellent today, really deserved his goal. He's got fabulous technique and he’s starting to get his head round the speed that the game is played here. I’d keep him in the team against Swansea.

Thought Raikhy and Cover made excellent debuts for us. That assist from Cover that Vardy fluffed needs to go straight on his you tube skills video (assuming he’s got one.) By the way you pronounce his surname Cover, rather than Cover. and while we are at it, it’s pronounced scone NOT scone.

That’s simply not true. As I’ve already pointed out - Hes better than Skipp at Spurs who gets regular game time. Better than Longstaff at Newcastle, better than Vieira at Arsenal, better than McTominay at Man U arguably better than Jones at Liverpool.KDH is a confident individual who would back himself at these clubs. It might end up a Drinkwater situation but to say he’s nowhere near the big teams is wrong. If Leicester get promoted we’d expect to be back competing with the likes of Brentford, Fulham, Wolves and even Brighton.

Yeh I could see any of those three or even Spurs or Man Utd being interested. Is he better than SOME of the players getting a good amount of game time at these clubs? I’d say yes. Look at Skipp at Spurs, Jones at Liverpool, Longstaff at Newcastle, McTominay at Man U, Vieira at Arse. He’s a more influential footballer than all of these and they all get game time at their clubs. I’d say KDH has the confidence to think he could break into all of these team’s starting 11. Whether he actually could is a different matter.

I’m not denying KDH would give them a boost but he should be aiming for a bigger club than Brighton if he leaves us. They aren’t really going to finish higher than 7th this season even if he signed for them.

Agreed relegation has set us back but finishing 7th is not upwards trajectory for Brighton. They finished 6th the previous season and they haven’t been as good this season. They’ve got Man U, Chelsea and Newcastle just below them. They’ve won as many games (8) as 11th place Wolves. Moving to a club currently punching above their weight, that buys cheap, pays lower wages and sells high and that hasn’t won anything despite being current media darlings is not an amazing move for a player of KDH’s calibre.

Aiming for mid table as a promoted team is not an unreasonable expectation or goal even if obviously the first aim is of course to avoid relegation. We were only six points off a ‘mid table’ position last season. We finished on 34 points, Wolves in 13th finished on 41, Chelsea in 12th on 44. Aiming for around mid table is not unrealistic. Are you seriously telling me that the squads of teams like Bournemouth, Brentford, Palace, Notts Forest and Everton are that much better than us? You give Brighton a lot of praise for one good season btw. Clearly you admire them and they do play nice football but come on, KDH moving to them would show a lack of ambition on his behalf.

Brighton will be mid table next season & probably not in Europe. We’ll also be aiming for mid table safety should we win promotion. The model of buy cheap, pay low wages and sell them for lots of profit is a cyclical one that Brighton can’t sustain forever as Leicester couldn’t. Brighton potentially splurging £30m on KDH is already a clear departure from the buy cheap model that has given them some success (without actually winning anything.) I also struggle to see how a low wage playing club is likely to retain the services of a manager like De Zerbi for too long (If he’s world class as you suggest) - he’ll be head hunted within 12 months.

The ‘best in the business’ reported this time last year that Liverpool were in the best position to buy Mason Mount from Chelsea.

He’s mad if he goes to Brighton. Not as big a club as Leicester. I get that they are premier league but they are starting to dip, we’ll be competing with them again next season.

I think the fact that even Enzo was surprised suggests that Chelsea at the very least gave the very minimum of notice even if the cut off date was before the end of Jan. Casadei and the club were informed by Chelsea after the Friday training that he was being recalled the following day. That is pretty poor form IMO. Not surprised though, Chelsea lacked class with the Fofana deal and tapped up and unsettled Chilwell very early too, to the point he was telling everyone he was off to Chelsea half way through his last season with us.

Yeh good point scrum half was the original Youngs!

You do realise there’s no O in Dusty’s surname?