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Tommy Watson ( ...off to Brighton)

alicante mackem said:
It was in his press conference. I can't remember exactly but I remember there was no denying that he might go. It's right at the beginning.
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Barnes asked such a long, rambling, multi-topic question that Le Bris just side-stepped the part about Watson. He didn't address it at all. A few questions later though he was talking about when Watson would be back with the squad.

I wouldn't take much from it other than Barnes is bloody hopeless.
 

Hot Since 82 said:
I'm sure Speakman will have pointed out to Tommy that Brighton already have 12 players ahead of him in the winger position and that he'll end up out on loan.
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They signed 4 teenage wingers in the summer for a combined €93m, and two of them are out on loan. Purely a numbers game for them.
woodlebert said:
Where?
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Still really struggle where teams like Brighton, Brentford or Bournemouth can take our players, we are where are atm obviously but hopefully in the coming years we can reverse that.
 
Shieldsman said:
If Watson stays which I think he will and if he doesn’t sign a new deal, this time next year he’ll be worth next to nothing and in the summer of 2026 he can leave for £0.
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Still not true. We’d get compensation if (as likely) he moved to an English team and it would be substantial.
 
hodge1973 said:
Still really struggle where teams like Brighton, Brentford or Bournemouth can take our players, we are where are atm obviously but hopefully in the coming years we can reverse that.
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Not that I think they’ll get there but the sad truth of the matter is Bournemouth are 1 point off qualifying for the Champions League and haven’t lost since November.

We’re miles off that level at the moment.
Boris Bear said:
Still not true. We’d get compensation if (as likely) he moved to an English team and it would be substantial.
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If he moved to an English team in the summer of 2026 in June we’d get £0.
 
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Shieldsman said:
Not that I think they’ll get there but the sad truth of the matter is Bournemouth are 1 point off qualifying for the Champions League and haven’t lost since November.

We’re miles off that level at the moment.

If he moved to an English team in the summer of 2026 in June we’d get £0.
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Still incorrect
 
Shieldsman said:
Not that I think they’ll get there but the sad truth of the matter is Bournemouth are 1 point off qualifying for the Champions League and haven’t lost since November.

We’re miles off that level at the moment.

If he moved to an English team in the summer of 2026 in June we’d get £0.
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How come we wouldn’t get compensation?
 
Boris Bear said:
Still not true. We’d get compensation if (as likely) he moved to an English team and it would be substantial.
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Aye, Burnley got £8M compensation from Liverpool when they took Danny Ings from them at the end of his contract. Plus a 20% sell on fee which gave them a further £4M following his later move to Southampton. He left Burnley 9 years ago. Ings had played a lot of games for Burnley though and in the top flight. Tommy might have done the same for us by 18 months time.
 
We all want the strongest squad to give us the best chance to turning things around and making top 2. If that doesn’t work we are all but guaranteed play offs so again need our best squad.

But as with all decent players potentially being sold this forum argues vehemently the logic with why players would stay. Going to a top 10 PL club, getting a long term contract on a huge pay rise, it’s a huge thing for the lad. And of course we’d get a lot of money that could be reinvested and we’ll negotiate a sell on clause. We all need to get used to the club selling good players in the coming months and years, if we are it means we could be doing well. Just look at Brighton and the players that they’ve sold, this forum would have been in meltdown so many times if we’d have sold those players but they’ve done amazingly because of that.

How would people react to selling Watson but him being loaned back for the rest of the season? If we don’t do a deal now and he’s with us to the summer he could then just decide to run his contract down being only a year out. We can’t afford to lose decent players for free transfers.
 
Hot Since 82 said:
Aye, Burnley got £8M compensation from Liverpool when they took Danny Ings from them at the end of his contract. Plus a 20% sell on fee which gave them a further £4M following his later move to Southampton. He left Burnley 9 years ago. Ings had played a lot of games for Burnley though and in the top flight. Tommy might have done the same for us by 18 months time.
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Fees have also skyrocketed though. Compensation would likely be millions
 
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