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Transfer Rumour 25/26 Summer Transfer Window (108 Viewers)

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Winny the Bish

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  • Yesterday at 2:40 PM
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Richard Kone to QPR for £2.75m + add-ons. Bargain.
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Yesterday at 2:41 PM
  • #13,022
Winny the Bish said:
Richard Kone to QPR for £2.75m + add-ons. Bargain.
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Yep surprised we weren't all over that
 

PUSB-We_are_going_up

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  • Yesterday at 2:41 PM
  • #13,023
Winny the Bish said:
Richard Kone to QPR for £2.75m + add-ons. Bargain.
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Shfwf can’t even get a Wycombe striker
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 2:43 PM
  • #13,024
I can believe though that nobody wants MVE at a price Doug is happy with, which in turn means he’s now willing to accept a piss take offer for Rudoni.
 
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David O'Day

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  • Yesterday at 2:49 PM
  • #13,025
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I can believe though that nobody wants MVE at a price Doug is happy with, which in turn means he’s now willing to accept a piss take offer for Rudoni.
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you can believe that load of nonsense if you want
 
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ClarkeZ

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  • Yesterday at 2:50 PM
  • #13,026
Ccfcisparks said:
We aren't going to sign Rudoni's replacement for £10m-£30m. Itwill be likely £5m or less.
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The question wasn't trying to trip you up and be a dick, I'm actually interested in your view.

But in response to that, we want £20-30mil for Rudoni, and you'd be happy spending <£5m on a replacement?

Or the other discussion that creates is, lets say we spend £4m on Rudi², the sale falls through and we now dont have that money to strengthen in another position needing cover/improvement. Many would see that as naïve too.
Without spending huge to cover all bases and hope the Rudi deal doesn't fall through, you're going to leave gaps somewhere.

Personally, as much as i'd love to see a spending spree, I dont think we have the spending power to do that without selling. And I dont want to be the next team to fail and risk ending up in L1 or admin again because it went wrong.
 

skybluecam

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  • Yesterday at 2:59 PM
  • #13,027
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I can believe though that nobody wants MVE at a price Doug is happy with, which in turn means he’s now willing to accept a piss take offer for Rudoni.
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Comment doesn't even make logical sense
 
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Nick

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  • Yesterday at 3:02 PM
  • #13,028
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I can believe though that nobody wants MVE at a price Doug is happy with, which in turn means he’s now willing to accept a piss take offer for Rudoni.
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How does that work?
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Yesterday at 3:02 PM
  • #13,029
skybluecam said:
Comment doesn't even make logical sense
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Nick said:
How does that work?
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DK has earmarked £12m for MVE, £15m for Rudoni

Nobody offers £12m for MVE, therefore we accept £15m for Rudoni for cashflow.
 
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saveitforthewombles

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  • Yesterday at 3:03 PM
  • #13,030
Ccfcisparks said:
Yep surprised we weren't all over that
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maybe he's no good?
 

edgy

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  • Yesterday at 3:05 PM
  • #13,031
Ccfcisparks said:
DK has earmarked £12m for MVE, £15m for Rudoni
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Where's that come from? Out of interest?
 

skybluecam

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  • Yesterday at 3:05 PM
  • #13,032
Ccfcisparks said:
DK has earmarked £12m for MVE, £15m for Rudoni

Nobody offers £12m for MVE, therefore we accept £15m for Rudoni for cashflow.
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£15m is obviously far less than what Rudoni should be worth though. And there should definitely be more than £3m difference between the two.
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Yesterday at 3:06 PM
  • #13,033
edgy said:
Where's that come from? Out of interest?
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Im just explaining what Brighton is trying to get at.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 3:06 PM
  • #13,034
skybluecam said:
Comment doesn't even make logical sense
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Nick said:
How does that work?
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You bank on one player leaving for a given amount and carry out some spending accordingly. The deal then falls through or happens at a smaller price than planned, so when an unexpected offer comes in for someone else, you’re willing to take a lower fee than you otherwise would for them.
 
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Nick

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  • Yesterday at 3:07 PM
  • #13,035
Ccfcisparks said:
DK has earmarked £12m for MVE, £15m for Rudoni

Nobody offers £12m for MVE, therefore we accept £15m for Rudoni for cashflow.
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So surely he's sticking to his valuations for both? A "piss take" offer would be if it was a panic sale for £5m or something on the last day.
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Yesterday at 3:08 PM
  • #13,036
Nick said:
So surely he's sticking to his valuations for both? A "piss take" offer would be if it was a panic sale for £5m or something on the last day.
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anything £15m or below would be a bit of a pisstake
 
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saveitforthewombles

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  • Yesterday at 3:08 PM
  • #13,037
Brighton Sky Blue said:
You bank on one player leaving for a given amount and carry out some spending accordingly. The deal then falls through or happens at a smaller price than planned, so when an unexpected offer comes in for someone else, you’re willing to take a lower fee than you otherwise would for them.
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If anything I'd say the opposite. We know the value of our best players and no-one leaves until those valuations are met.
 
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Chicken Mcgraw

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  • Yesterday at 3:08 PM
  • #13,038
Nick said:
So surely he's sticking to his valuations for both? A "piss take" offer would be if it was a panic sale for £5m or something on the last day.
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Fucking hell
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 3:11 PM
  • #13,039
saveitforthewombles said:
If anything I'd say the opposite. We know the value of our best players and no-one leaves until those valuations are met.
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We do, but if we had strong reasons to believe MVE was off and had spent money accordingly, if the deal then fell through we’d have a shortfall or at least a cash flow problem.
 
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saveitforthewombles

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  • Yesterday at 3:13 PM
  • #13,040
Brighton Sky Blue said:
We do, but if we had strong reasons to believe MVE was off and had spent money accordingly, if the deal then fell through we’d have a shortfall or at least a cash flow problem.
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I don't sense that's the case. We were bidding £8mn for a centre half last week
 
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David O'Day

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  • Yesterday at 3:15 PM
  • #13,041
Brighton Sky Blue said:
We do, but if we had strong reasons to believe MVE was off and had spent money accordingly, if the deal then fell through we’d have a shortfall or at least a cash flow problem.
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we hardly likely to undervalue Rudoni if we won't sell the right back whose replacement we have brought already

if we needed to sell as we've brought kkh then mve would be the one we'd sell
 

edgy

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  • Yesterday at 3:15 PM
  • #13,042
Yeah we aren't spending money we haven't already got in the bank.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 3:16 PM
  • #13,043
saveitforthewombles said:
I don't sense that's the case. We were bidding £8mn for a centre half last week
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Again, perhaps on the assumption that Rudoni is indeed off. And perhaps he was somewhere in the Southampton area when he had a ‘knock’ for the pre season game…
 

ClarkeZ

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  • Yesterday at 3:17 PM
  • #13,044
Brighton Sky Blue said:
You bank on one player leaving for a given amount and carry out some spending accordingly. The deal then falls through or happens at a smaller price than planned, so when an unexpected offer comes in for someone else, you’re willing to take a lower fee than you otherwise would for them.
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I understand what you're suggesting, but I dont think the club is being run that close to the edge.

If we didnt have the money to bring in KKH already, I can't see DK spending it. Yes he may well have done that assuming MvE was going, but our financial pattern since he took over makes me struggle to believe he'd put himself in the position to take cut prices on others because his gamble didnt pay off.

MvE might be the perfect example of why buying first isnt always perfect. If MvE plays as many minutes for us this season as last, we'll spend the next 9 months talking about where else that money could have been spent. Same would go for Rudi².
 

David O'Day

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  • Yesterday at 3:18 PM
  • #13,045
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Again, perhaps on the assumption that Rudoni is indeed off. And perhaps he was somewhere in the Southampton area when he had a ‘knock’ for the pre season game…
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given people met him in the lounge during the game that is bollocks
 
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Kingokings204

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  • Yesterday at 3:19 PM
  • #13,046
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Again, perhaps on the assumption that Rudoni is indeed off. And perhaps he was somewhere in the Southampton area when he had a ‘knock’ for the pre season game…
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he was at the pre season game? And then he played against hull and last night?


I really don’t get what you are saying
 

David O'Day

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  • Yesterday at 3:20 PM
  • #13,047
Kingokings204 said:
he was at the pre season game? And then he played against hull and last night?


I really don’t get what you are saying
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he's on a wum or he has reverted back to the bedwetter in chief
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 3:22 PM
  • #13,048
Kingokings204 said:
he was at the pre season game? And then he played against hull and last night?


I really don’t get what you are saying
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A tongue in cheek comment that second one.
 

David O'Day

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  • Yesterday at 3:24 PM
  • #13,049
Brighton Sky Blue said:
A tongue in cheek comment that second one.
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it really wasn't

so far our only outgoings are the loan fee for Rushworth and somewhere around 3.5m for kkh

we could sell mve today and more than cover this
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 3:26 PM
  • #13,050
ClarkeZ said:
I understand what you're suggesting, but I dont think the club is being run that close to the edge.

If we didnt have the money to bring in KKH already, I can't see DK spending it. Yes he may well have done that assuming MvE was going, but our financial pattern since he took over makes me struggle to believe he'd put himself in the position to take cut prices on others because his gamble didnt pay off.

MvE might be the perfect example of why buying first isnt always perfect. If MvE plays as many minutes for us this season as last, we'll spend the next 9 months talking about where else that money could have been spent. Same would go for Rudi².
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It’s just speculation of course, but most clubs at our level run multi million pound losses each season and borrow to spend what they haven’t got. Ours isn’t much different and if we assume that a sale is going to happen which either doesn’t materialise or is less than planned, it puts pressure on to either borrow, get investment or sell someone else.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 3:27 PM
  • #13,051
David O'Day said:
it really wasn't

so far our only outgoings are the loan fee for Rushworth and somewhere around 3.5m for kkh

we could sell mve today and more than cover this
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It certainly was.
 

David O'Day

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  • Yesterday at 3:28 PM
  • #13,052
Brighton Sky Blue said:
It’s just speculation of course, but most clubs at our level run multi million pound losses each season and borrow to spend what they haven’t got. Ours isn’t much different and if we assume that a sale is going to happen which either doesn’t materialise or is less than planned, it puts pressure on to either borrow, get investment or sell someone else.
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or the owner funds it as he has
 

skybluecam

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  • Yesterday at 3:33 PM
  • #13,053
Brighton Sky Blue said:
You bank on one player leaving for a given amount and carry out some spending accordingly. The deal then falls through or happens at a smaller price than planned, so when an unexpected offer comes in for someone else, you’re willing to take a lower fee than you otherwise would for them.
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just conspiracy theories to slander Doug though isn't it
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 3:34 PM
  • #13,054
skybluecam said:
just conspiracy theories to slander Doug though isn't it
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I have no beef with Doug.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 3:35 PM
  • #13,055
David O'Day said:
or the owner funds it as he has
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Fair, if he can continue to do so.
 
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