| On Brighton’s succession planning 11:54 - May 19 with 3314 views | Illinoisblue |
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| On Brighton’s succession planning on 12:07 - May 19 with 3179 views | Mullet |
Sporting intel, was told this months ago, releases it now after links come out? Hmmmm
If McKenna goes now then good luck to him, but to them, seems unlike him. If he backs himself he'd either fancy himself to have us competing with Brighton fairly soon as they're not likely to hit top six without a lucky run.
A big six team are more likely to use his name to lower demands from the big names. Very common tactic in lots of industries to publicly leak the intent to go for the relative unheard of/new star in the industry to keep the old heads more reasonable in negotiations.
ManUtd for example know they're in a weak position relatively speaking if they wanted to get in a top name. McKenna going there would be understandable, but a hell of a jump. It also means we can recruit at the very top of our recent trajectory and makes looking at someone like Potter less laughable than it would have a few months ago even.
Plus Brighton are an appalling fanbase and a club who shouldn't be anywhere near the Prem anyway. |  |
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| 8/11 now, odds on.... on 12:11 - May 19 with 3130 views | Bloots |
| On Brighton’s succession planning on 12:07 - May 19 by Mullet |
Sporting intel, was told this months ago, releases it now after links come out? Hmmmm
If McKenna goes now then good luck to him, but to them, seems unlike him. If he backs himself he'd either fancy himself to have us competing with Brighton fairly soon as they're not likely to hit top six without a lucky run.
A big six team are more likely to use his name to lower demands from the big names. Very common tactic in lots of industries to publicly leak the intent to go for the relative unheard of/new star in the industry to keep the old heads more reasonable in negotiations.
ManUtd for example know they're in a weak position relatively speaking if they wanted to get in a top name. McKenna going there would be understandable, but a hell of a jump. It also means we can recruit at the very top of our recent trajectory and makes looking at someone like Potter less laughable than it would have a few months ago even.
Plus Brighton are an appalling fanbase and a club who shouldn't be anywhere near the Prem anyway. |
...prices like that aren't just because someone has stuck £50 on it. |  |
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| On Brighton’s succession planning on 12:14 - May 19 with 3083 views | pointofblue |
| On Brighton’s succession planning on 12:07 - May 19 by Mullet |
Sporting intel, was told this months ago, releases it now after links come out? Hmmmm
If McKenna goes now then good luck to him, but to them, seems unlike him. If he backs himself he'd either fancy himself to have us competing with Brighton fairly soon as they're not likely to hit top six without a lucky run.
A big six team are more likely to use his name to lower demands from the big names. Very common tactic in lots of industries to publicly leak the intent to go for the relative unheard of/new star in the industry to keep the old heads more reasonable in negotiations.
ManUtd for example know they're in a weak position relatively speaking if they wanted to get in a top name. McKenna going there would be understandable, but a hell of a jump. It also means we can recruit at the very top of our recent trajectory and makes looking at someone like Potter less laughable than it would have a few months ago even.
Plus Brighton are an appalling fanbase and a club who shouldn't be anywhere near the Prem anyway. |
Final paragraph - why would you say that? Would much prefer them to be up there compared to the financial dopers. |  |
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| On Brighton’s succession planning on 12:15 - May 19 with 3075 views | SitfcB |
| On Brighton’s succession planning on 12:07 - May 19 by Mullet |
Sporting intel, was told this months ago, releases it now after links come out? Hmmmm
If McKenna goes now then good luck to him, but to them, seems unlike him. If he backs himself he'd either fancy himself to have us competing with Brighton fairly soon as they're not likely to hit top six without a lucky run.
A big six team are more likely to use his name to lower demands from the big names. Very common tactic in lots of industries to publicly leak the intent to go for the relative unheard of/new star in the industry to keep the old heads more reasonable in negotiations.
ManUtd for example know they're in a weak position relatively speaking if they wanted to get in a top name. McKenna going there would be understandable, but a hell of a jump. It also means we can recruit at the very top of our recent trajectory and makes looking at someone like Potter less laughable than it would have a few months ago even.
Plus Brighton are an appalling fanbase and a club who shouldn't be anywhere near the Prem anyway. |
Apparently Brighton trying to hijack Ajax move for Francesco Farioli, could be using McKenna as bait? FF been suggested by De Zerbi. |  |
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| On Brighton’s succession planning on 12:18 - May 19 with 3051 views | J2BLUE |
There's a lot of smoke and, IMO, lots of journos pretending they can see a fire. |  |
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| On Brighton’s succession planning on 12:24 - May 19 with 2951 views | Illinoisblue |
| On Brighton’s succession planning on 12:18 - May 19 by J2BLUE |
There's a lot of smoke and, IMO, lots of journos pretending they can see a fire. |
Likely true although Nick Harris is more investigative than clickbaiting rumours. | |
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| 8/11 now, odds on.... on 12:57 - May 19 with 2688 views | Mullet |
| 8/11 now, odds on.... on 12:11 - May 19 by Bloots |
...prices like that aren't just because someone has stuck £50 on it. |
No, could be a few hundred lumping on at this stage. Would expect the market to move a lot until something is leaked - I'd expect the tweet in the OP is responsible in part for the quick move too. | |
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| On Brighton’s succession planning on 13:00 - May 19 with 2637 views | Mullet |
| On Brighton’s succession planning on 12:14 - May 19 by pointofblue |
Final paragraph - why would you say that? Would much prefer them to be up there compared to the financial dopers. |
Relative to their size that's exactly what they were - https://priceoffootball.com/brighton-and-hove-albion-please-please-please-let-me
That's from a Brighton fan's perspective and I'll even forgive him ripping off my love of Smiths puns.
They're predominantly bandwagon jumpers who are Chelsea-dodging hipsters and London overspill. I get they get a lot of sympathy for what happened long before, but they're essentially a slightly more hipster and less doped up Bournemouth. | |
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| On Brighton’s succession planning on 14:56 - May 19 with 2298 views | ibbleobble |
Incredible data crunching that. Did they just look up win percentage on Wikipedia? | | | |
| On Brighton’s succession planning on 15:56 - May 19 with 2016 views | Vic |
So the journo was embedded there last September and BHA said he was thier top target at that point even before KM had proven himself in the Championship? Unlikely for a Prem team involved in Europe. |  |
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| On Brighton’s succession planning on 16:24 - May 19 with 1903 views | LankHenners |
| On Brighton’s succession planning on 12:18 - May 19 by J2BLUE |
There's a lot of smoke and, IMO, lots of journos pretending they can see a fire. |
Not saying this at you specifically but while there's a lot of agent-driven gossip stuff floating about, especially during transfer windows, football journalists are well connected people and will know a fair bit about things behind the scenes. The idea that they just make stuff up or guess at things is a bit disrespectful really and quite daft.
Regardless of what people think about their general output/political leanings, if it's coming from the Guardian, Telegraph, Times, Talksport etc. it will have a solid foundation. |  |
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