A manager trying to keep a young star’s feet on the ground ? https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/s...arez/?action=success#comments-feedback-anchor
Greedy and doesn’t play for the team? Should’ve got him in January in that case, he’d fit in seamlessly.
On the bench for Envigado tonight. I will laugh my arse off if we haven't got him a work permit yet but have sent him back to Envigado for the rest of the season.
Rumours we’ve agreed a deal to sell Asprilla to Bournemouth for £2m plus add ons. Personal terms not expected to be an issue. Decent fee if true.
I'm hearing it's a 3 year loan, with us picking up 70% of the wages and Bournemouth have a unilateral option to buy for 2m (including bonuses for promotion, goals scored, prem survival, England caps). Smart way to get 30% of his wages off the books if true.
You joke but we definitely have fans who would twist themselves into knots trying to justify doing this.
Happy with this as we have Cleverley to come back. Only £.3m less than the fee we received for Paul Furlong 28 years ago and he was a top scorer for us!!
Concrete is interesting though. The Ancient Greeks laid concrete floors from at least 1000 years BC and the Romans followed suit. It wasn’t all lardi-dah fancy mosaics. The Mayans were using concrete more than a thousand years ago.
There's reports in Colombia to: http://sportwitness.co.uk/brighton-...n-player-also-followed-real-madrid-long-time/
On the one hand, he's not even a guaranteed starter here, but unlike JP who we did see flourish here, we haven't seen anywhere close to the best of Asprilla, I just want one more season of him
Would like to think he'd stay as he's more likely to play football here than Brighton or any of the big teams, but I don't know, the cat's out of the bag now...
Agreed, think we’d be silly to sell now as his market value could have doubled or tripled by the end of the season. Problem is as a young South American, Brighton must be a very attractive proposition right now. Could see this whole thing unsettling him
I think that's just lazy reporting as that's his value on Transfermarkt. We bought him for €3m and he's got another 3 years left on his contract so I think we'd laugh at any bid under 20m
He surely hasn’t shown enough yet to warrant a particularly big fee; but Watford will be thinking that one day he will prove his worth. Can’t see a middle ground where Brighton would be willing to gamble enough that he’ll develop into a top player and we’ll gamble enough to settle that he won’t.
This is my hope, that our evaluation based on his potential ceiling will be well above what Brighton are willing to pay right now. Would be a potentially big risk for them.
I agree that at this point, I think it's unlikely that the fee-demanded vs first-team-impact equation will add up for Brighton this summer, but even the genuine floated prospect of this being introduced into our lives is really just the final vestiges of life force being sucked out like a dementor's kiss.
This team is barely watchable as it is, sell him and we really will be utter dross to sit there and look at.
Not even sure he makes our starting 11 at the moment. Looks like he could end up being very good, but some way off that as we speak. My opinion only of course and I hope he rams that comment straight down my throat starting on Saturday
I won't accept this negativity and shortly I'll have 600 words explaining why Michel Ngonge won't either. Altogether now... "Dan, Dan, you're our man. If you can't captain us no one can!!"
He probably won't even be starting most games this season yet anyway, so it won't make a huge amount of difference.
Possibility of a purchase and loan back for the season to get game time? Can't see him being Premier League ready despite obvious potential.
