Zach Abbott (like Moreira and Tyler Bindon) will still be under 21, so they aren't a factor for the senior squad and can used as much or as little as we want.
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Don't we just name a smaller squad ? No need to chase ex players.
Yes, but a squad of 22 could be quite a disadvantage.
Not in Europe.
List B (under-21) players must have been available to play for the club for two uninterrupted years since their 15th birthday, or three if it includes no more than one loan away, at an English FA-registered club, for no more than a season. So Moreira and Bindon would have to be List A, the 25-man squad.
I think Taylor would be List B as we had him for two years before his first loan.Attorneys at Law.
Born in 2003 though, so will be classed as over 21 for next season and has to be in the main squad.
BEEB gossip says we rejected a deadline day offer for Murillo from Chelsea. Would have been a ‘club record’ for us… but that rather goes without saying. We have half a dozen player who’d be worth more than we got for BJ. A lot more, in the case of Murillo.
Apparently Gazzetto Dello Sport says Roma asked about Elliot Anderson but our price was too high.
We are going to be fending off bids for multiple players all summer if we don't get into the champions' league, aren't we?
Even if we do. Someone (almost certainly Murillo) is going to have to be sold, so we might as well get used to it.
Provided we get serious money (which we will) which allows us to strengthen & retain others (Ando, MGW), I can live with it; it’s the shit way of the modern game, where clubs like Brighton & Forest take the risk of finding gems so that the rich boys can then just hurl money at it & reap the long term benefits.
Mind you, even in our pomp we still had to sell players; Tony Woodcock, for example - we simply could not afford the wages he was being offered elsewhere.
FTFY
I'm fully onboard with the need to sell and understand where we stand and that we have (almost) always sold our best players - there's reasons why Robertson and Pearce stand alone and part of that is that they stayed all the way through their respective primes and are unusual in that.
From my perspective though, it needs to be measured, so probably one per summer - like Leicester did, until they didn't. I just think champions league makes it easier to convince players it's in their interest to stick around for another season.
You know IF we get Champions League football .... I wonder whether Jack Grealish might fancy a year long loan move to try and re-ignite his career.
With Jota Silva on the other wing?
Suggestion the deal for Lewis Carrol from Aberdeen failed due to "administrative issues" at the Forest end.
Given his likely wages, does he get in the team ahead of Gibbs-White? Surely not quick enough to play wide.
