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Dan The Man said:
Also depends on when teams first fixtures are or could be anything up to 10-11 days before they play
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Group stage fixtures
December 21: Morocco vs. Comoros (Group A)
December 22: Mali vs. Zambia (Group A), Egypt vs. Zimbabwe (Group B), South Africa vs. Angola (Group B)
December 23: Nigeria vs. Tanzania (Group C), Tunisia vs. Uganda (Group C), Senegal vs. Botswana (Group D), DR Congo vs. Benin (Group D)
December 24: Algeria vs. Sudan (Group E), Burkina Faso vs. Equatorial Guinea (Group E), Ivory Coast vs. Mozambique (Group F), Cameroon vs. Gabon (Group F)
December 26: Morocco vs. Mali (Group A), Zambia vs. Comoros (Group A), Egypt vs. South Africa (Group B), Angola vs. Zimbabwe (Group B)
December 27: Nigeria vs. Tunisia (Group C), Uganda vs. Tanzania (Group C), DR Congo vs. Senegal (Group D), Benin vs. Botswana (Group D)
December 28: Algeria vs. Burkina Faso (Group E), Equatorial Guinea vs. Sudan (Group E), Cameroon vs. Ivory Coast (Group F), Gabon vs. Mozambique (Group F)
December 29: Morocco vs. Zambia (Group A), Comoros vs. Mali (Group A), Egypt vs. Angola (Group B), Zimbabwe vs. South Africa (Group B)
December 30: Nigeria vs. Uganda (Group C), Tanzania vs. Tunisia (Group C), Botswana vs. DR Congo (Group D), Benin vs. Senegal (Group D)
December 31: Equatorial Guinea vs. Algeria (Group E), Burkina Faso vs. Sudan (Group E), Cameroon vs. Mozambique (Group F), Ivory Coast vs. Gabon (Group F)
 

Mighty Boosh said:
It's still a daft oversight. Five first team players missing for 3-6 games. It is also the month when injuries usually hit hard
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I very much doubt its an oversight by the management and financial teams running a Premier league club. An oversight is forgetting to put my parking permit on full display at work. I suspect they have a recruitment plan for a competitive squad and are aware of the thing called AFCON.
 
Mighty Boosh said:
It's still a daft oversight. Five first team players missing for 3-6 games. It is also the month when injuries usually hit hard
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It won’t be an oversight.

You can think it’s a bad idea, but they will absolutely have assessed it and decided it’s worth it
 
alicante mackem said:
Hopefully, they haven't. But I do think Watson will go on to great things. I suppose we had no choice anyway as he wanted to leave. Which I find very strange.
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A bloke I know through work (yes I know) has a distant connection through mates to Watsons family. He reckons his monthly is going from £1.5k to £20k. Offer that in January to a kid who isn’t yet established as a regular in a team not guaranteed promotion with a transfer to a premier league club having a reputation for developing youngsters and what happens?
 
Hardyman's Yugo said:
A bloke I know through work (yes I know) has a distant connection through mates to Watsons family. He reckons his monthly is going from £1.5k to £20k. Offer that in January to a kid who isn’t yet established as a regular in a team not guaranteed promotion with a transfer to a premier league club having a reputation for developing youngsters and what happens?
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What happens? They obviously move:)
 
Hardyman's Yugo said:
A bloke I know through work (yes I know) has a distant connection through mates to Watsons family. He reckons his monthly is going from £1.5k to £20k. Offer that in January to a kid who isn’t yet established as a regular in a team not guaranteed promotion with a transfer to a premier league club having a reputation for developing youngsters and what happens?
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£1500 a month? Surely a week?
 
Hardyman's Yugo said:
A bloke I know through work (yes I know) has a distant connection through mates to Watsons family. He reckons his monthly is going from £1.5k to £20k. Offer that in January to a kid who isn’t yet established as a regular in a team not guaranteed promotion with a transfer to a premier league club having a reputation for developing youngsters and what happens?
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Can’t turn it down to be fair , life changing at that age when you don’t don’t what future holds
 
Cream said:
It was one of his first games.
Remind me to higher my expectations for you.
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Could see he’s not a right winger. Never in a million years. He’s got a long way to go but this lad is for the here and now which is what we need. Brighton may do well out of Watson in 5 years, but we need a player who is proven and Watson isn’t.
 
alicante mackem said:
I don't think Neil will be replaced and neither should he be. Rigg will still be play a prominent role too.
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who's he playing instead of? probably some form of a 4231 with Sadiki and Diarra as the '2', Le Fee further forward and then Adingra and Talbi out wide. granted it's a squad game but we're not going to stick 20m quid signings on the bench. i don't see a starting spot for Neil with the signings we've made
 
Pacific said:
who's he playing instead of? probably some form of a 4231 with Sadiki and Diarra as the '2', Le Fee further forward and then Adingra and Talbi out wide. granted it's a squad game but we're not going to stick 20m quid signings on the bench. i don't see a starting spot for Neil with the signings we've made
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He's not playing instead of anyone. He's one of us, he's our captain, and he plays in the centre of midfield.
 
Kev75 said:
£20 million........Anybody get the feeling this is a bargain? I know I do.
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Quick look on their forum suggests their fans are over the moon with the fee.

Good deal for everyone involved really, we get an upgrade and a proven Premier League player and they get good money for a backup option that's out of contract in a year.
 
Hardyman's Yugo said:
A bloke I know through work (yes I know) has a distant connection through mates to Watsons family. He reckons his monthly is going from £1.5k to £20k. Offer that in January to a kid who isn’t yet established as a regular in a team not guaranteed promotion with a transfer to a premier league club having a reputation for developing youngsters and what happens?
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Weekly wage not monthly
 
Honestly think this is about as perfect it gets for us. We’re really lacking incisive wide threats who actually deliver in the final third. With Le Bris favouring wing play with Mundle and Robert’s, I genuinely think he’s an improvement on either of those. Or at least in Mundles case he’ll keep him sharp.
 
MarcoG said:
Quick look on their forum suggests their fans are over the moon with the fee.

Good deal for everyone involved really, we get an upgrade and a proven Premier League player and they get good money for a backup option that's out of contract in a year.
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Yes because he's not a first team player, the sensible ones amongst them seem to think he's a good player but not going to get the game time that a player that age needs.

Also, he might need a change of environment and the move might motivate him to push on.

It's clear he's a talented player.
 
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