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That was hardly out of good will. We were paying £1m per year and they were desperate for income.

Utter rubbish. Stats-wise he's been pretty much one of the best in his position in this league over the past couple of years.

Not sure it's as binary as this with Sheaf. I think there's multiple factors which have affected his performances this season. He's still an incredible talent at this level and I'd be keen to retain him but I doubt he'll be here beyond this summer.

The fact the bloke behind JH has been going for over 12 years is frankly impressive at this point.

I've just looked back at his comments and I wouldn't go as far to say he was 'very negative'. However, interestingly and as I suspected, Brighton clearly gave the club a bollocking over how it handled Ayari during his time here. I suspect for this reason there is certainly an element of...

The issue with loans is that clubs are entrusting you with their young talent to develop and play games so there's a relatively high level of expectation there. The club bringing Ayari in and then not playing him would've almost certainly annoyed Brighton given how highly they rate him. They...

I suspect Brighton weren't totally happy with the club after the Ayari situation.

I think it's more a recognition that leadership and experience are core components of any winning side.

If they haven't already been used to cover operational costs there's also the fee and wages saved from Palmer leaving in the summer. Perhaps these funds were earmarked for reinvestment in January.

Possibly. The media are making a lot of noise about it though and will probably announce it anyway assuming it goes through. So might force the clubs hand to do the same. Internal media content such as first thoughts etc. yes could come afterwards though.

I would've thought given how Doug likes to operate that any contract will be bonus heavy. His base salary won't be £30k pw. The club can't afford that plus bonuses on top.

They'll have zero knowledge of what he's currently on or what he's being offered by us. It's complete guesswork on their part.

The fact Bigi, Thomas, Clarke, Christie, and Cameron all featured a fair amount during that season and none other than possibly Christie had the ability to play in the Championship shows how thin on the ground we were.

I strongly suspect there had been conversations between his agent and SL at that point. Not impossible that a move could've been fast tracked, especially if he would've been made available on a fairly cut price deal. Either way even if conversations hadn't happened by then, I doubt he would've...

Not sure that's right. If anything it would've made the pathway much easier for him as clubs would've been able to secure him on a cut price deal - which means more options. As others have said I'm also fairly sure he was angling for a move in Jan as well.

SISU were literally stripping cost out of every single facet of the club from top to bottom. Over a period of 3 transfer windows the playing squad was completely decimated. Thorn was dreadful, but it's pretty obvious that regardless of who was in place that there was literally no way to prevent...

You only have to look at the budget available for the following summer when we dropped down to L1 to give you an indication of how that summer window would've panned out if we'd somehow remained in the Championship. Loans that would've cost the club nothing, cheap free agents replacing players...

I really don't think it would've made much difference. Assuming a more competent manager was appointed instead of Thorn and he would've kept us up, the season following would've been a huge uphill battle. Cranie, Keogh, Clingan and Lukas would've gone regardless who was manager as SISU were...

It's a trivial argument. Even without Thorn we would've almost certainly gone down the season after as SISU would've pushed through further player sales to cover the losses and once again, as we saw in the summer of 11/12, barely any incomings would've been brought in.

I literally never said that. Carry on being annoyed about nothing.