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Tommy Watson ( ...off to Brighton)

CARLOS CLASS said:
Who says he wants to leave?

Why would he?

Is this just made up stuff, again!

As I sad earlier, you are clearly intellectually challenged

Dear me
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You haven't even got your thick skull around full stops ya moron.

If you want to debate the merits of flogging/keeping academy products I'm happy to do so, but if all ya can muster is dim witted base level insults you can piss off.
 

Southern Monkey said:
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.
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I’d react with a meh because he’s behind Mundle and Le Fee (now) for that wide left berth
 
Southern Monkey said:
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.
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So we sell him for a pretty low fee And develop him him them? No thanks.

Unless he's a standout game changer, we shouldn't be prioritising loans over developing our own players.
 
woodlebert said:
The Derby lad has 3000 minutes at this level. He’s way more experienced and has delivered consistently in defence
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On the flip side Watson is way younger and has potential. Plus attackers cost a premium always have. If we get anything less than that we’ve been bent over.
Boris Bear said:
I’d react with a meh because he’s behind Mundle and Le Fee (now) for that wide left berth
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He should t be fee is clearly not a winger at all and mundle is one bad sprint away from a hammy. The lad will have to be eased back in we can’t expect the lad to be back to normal from the off. We will struggle there if we let Watson go along with aa fee is not a winger we need to start playing him in his best position.
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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Those kind of numbers make a mockery of the reported fee they were tossing at us in the summer and he should be north of that £10m plus or what’s the point keep him and if he leaves in 18 months he does so with us due a decent compo fee.
 
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Mackemansj1 said:
On the flip side Watson is way younger and has potential. Plus attackers cost a premium always have. If we get anything less than that we’ve been bent over.

He should t be fee is clearly not a winger at all and mundle is one bad sprint away from a hammy. The lad will have to be eased back in we can’t expect the lad to be back to normal from the off. We will struggle there if we let Watson go along with aa fee is not a winger we need to start playing him in his best position.

Those kind of numbers make a mockery of the reported fee they were tossing at us in the summer and he should be north of that £10m plus or what’s the point keep him and if he leaves in 18 months he does so with us due a decent compo fee.
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I don’t disagree with you
 
Sea to Shining Sea said:
This is the worst thing about all this. I can live with Liverpool, Man United and Arsenal picking off our talents for good money but it’s really hard to stomach losing young talent to Brighton. It really shouldn’t happen
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I don't understand this view at all. They've spent several years of playing very good football and are now an established and stable PL team.
 
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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That’s just not true
 
Church said:
I don't understand this view at all. They've spent several years of playing very good football and are now an established and stable PL team.
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I’m not disputing that or saying that they don’t deserve to be doing well. It’s a damning indictment of Sunderland however that we’ve fallen so far behind that a club such as Brighton, essentially a club that ok in the top flight, are financially more attractive and also seen to be a better club to be at.

It’s galling
 
Sea to Shining Sea said:
This is the worst thing about all this. I can live with Liverpool, Man United and Arsenal picking off our talents for good money but it’s really hard to stomach losing young talent to Brighton. It really shouldn’t happen
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It’s 2025 mate. We’ve been out of the PL for a long time. Brighton are an excellent team and a million miles ahead of us. The ‘size’ of the club argument is pretty irrelevant.
 
Southern Monkey said:
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.
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I agree with this 1,000%. The club aren't daft. They held onto Clarke last year in Jan because the deal didn't work out. They sold him when it did. They clearly weigh up the short term impact, and given how close we are to the automatic promotion spots, I don't think they're going to throw that opportunity away.

Interesting that RLB talked about the short term too. Suggests everyone is thinking about that at the top of the club too.
 
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