A week away! Deadline is 1700 this Thursday 8 August, less than three days away.

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

Isn't this what you get for leaving everything so late? A tactic that SP, apparently, believes works in your favour...unfortunately I have yet to see any evidence to back up his statement in any transfer window

That was true, but alas it was based on his performance for one season at villa, as we now know one swallow does not make a summer, the fact was that he was not considered good enough for Liverpool by Klopp and because we were so desperate we did agree a stupid fee (27-30mil depending on who you talk to) even when other clubs were not fighting for his signature, so clearly the price was high and clearly others could see that the man had something missing. To be fair his fee was covered as I have already said by the 15 PL goals that kept us up in his first season. Then he became complacent did not work hard enough and his lack of floor skills were exposed. We should have off loaded him at that point even at a reduced fee to mitigate our losses (keeping us up in his first season and the revenue that provided for us was justification for taking a loss). Now we are stuck with him until his contract expires and this is holding us back. This is just another example of errors at the top and as we know there have been plenty of them in recent seasons!

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Just seen Brighton paying 20 million for Maupay. 22 yrs old goalscorer and yet we still see the Palace board labouring away. Maupay is exactly what we should be going for but again we are either too slow or not in with a chance. I love this club but there are times the transfer policy makes no sense.

It’s too easy for people to say buy this player, buy that player. Firstly, spending loads of money and bringing in loads of new players doesn’t guarantee we will finish higher next season. Secondly, look at Spurs last season who progressed without spending money. It is do-able.

I’m not writing this saying that we don’t need to add to the squad because we do but too many people are stuck in the ‘compare and contrast’ mindset, looking at other clubs buying new players and panicking because they think that means we’re not going to do well. Brighton and Bournemouth have spent big but we finished above them last season. Let’s not forget how much Fulham threw away thinking they were going to progress.

I still like Parish’s measured approach. Yes, he’s made errors along the way in an attempt to kick on eg De Boer, Campana, Marange, Kebe, Sorloth, Jach etc etc BUT he’s attempted to move on and learn.

For the record, I do think we will buy players- Cahill, Camarasa and a right back and forward. They will be improvements on the players that have been moved on. Maybe for the exception of Wan Bissaka.

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Spot on I have been bleating on about Maupay for months! 20 mill for a 23 year old is going to prove really good business for Brighton! My opinion only the lad is a natural finisher who will score at any level! A different kind of striker to what we already have small, quick with a real poachers instinct.

We come up with yet another aging player at 33 years old! With the current age of our squad we are rapidly building the best and most expensive walking football team ever! Come on Palace please show some forward thinking FFS