I totally agree.
I would buy him without a doubt and I really cannot believe that if we did our budget would be gone.
If it is then AP cost us more than we thought?
I thought I read that somewhere that Scott Dann had been told he could find another Club - this was a comment made directly after Sam left - that being the case (and I hope it isn't) then Sam must have thought Sakho was a done deal?

Whilst I don't fully buy the FFP excuse, I do agree with those who've suggested that we're not flush with cash. Our accounts do show that we spend almost our entire income on just staying in the PL and I think the "Sakho+1" scenario that Parish suggested he'd agreed with Sam is an indication of where we are with transfer spending.

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)

Really? He was using revolutionary systems before they became the norm, such as sports science, GPS tracking on the field, etc. He didn't get the credit he deserved.

When taking over clubs who were in trouble he did what he had to do to lead them to survive.

Don't get me wrong, I didn't like him much before he came to the club but since he's left even the media who have mocked him have paid tribute to him as being under valued and far from a one trick pony.

If he were a one trick pony it was a trick that was much sought after and successful.

Not OTT if you read the posts that is precisely what they are saying. Of course not reading the posts is not the answer, plenty of interesting posts just the moronic ones are on the increase.

We spent heavily in Jan, £40 million or so. Remember previous Xmas transfer window we got Ade in and that was it, which was a mistake in my mind but that is for another thread. Sakho will cost near to £25 million perhaps higher, with Wilf now brilliantly staying can't see us being flush. Certainly need some new firepower up front as well. Remember Yannick's departure helped last summer. So can easily see 1-2 signings if Sakho joins. This is why also I feel we will be appointing a British coach, Dyche possibly, who is probably putting his feet up now for a while, whilst he can.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

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