Tommy Watson ( ...off to Brighton)

[zidanny]

Surely it could have been dealt with better ? Why announce it now ? Vital games ahead etc.
I wouldn’t have him playing ahead of Alexsic now, rather give the minutes to a lad who actually wants to be here.

 

[Mboma]

We are a player farm unfortunately. The owners are not interested in going up imho

It's a bit f#cking metal that we're selling players before the season even ends though. Jobe to go next week?

There's absolutely no benefit to releasing this news now....its that piss poor that I'm actually laughing at wtf they were thinking in doing this on April fools of all days!

 

[riffraff]

Brighton taking our players, what a time to be alive.

Que abuse from the happy brigade.

Derby, Palace, Southampton etc and others have been taking our best players for decades now and very few of them back then had the financial advantage over us that Brighton currently have.

 

[Ned Land]

If we can't, or aren't willing, to promote, develop and play talented and promising home-grown players that are dyed-in-the-wool fans of the club for more than a handful of games then what's the f***ing point?

That isn’t what’s happened.

 

[riffraff]

But Brighton are a bigger club than SAFC, right now. It’s a good move for the lad and to be feeding clubs like Brighton and Ipswich shows we are making good progress.

Richer. Not bigger.

 

[Sidewinder2]

Madness, he’s hardly played.

Said to the bloke who sits behind me at the match on Saturday, he looks like a kid playing. I mean positionally off the ball etc.

To get that much for him is madness.

To think he only played as Mindle got injured, who only played because Clarke was sold.

 

[Rocky77]

None of them have the potential to improve as Watson does and none of them would get a move like Watson has. Alese and Ballard dont even get a game for us never mind a prem team. There’s plenty reasons why players might stay/sign for SAFC but money isn’t one of them.
Jobe is the outlier but pretty obvious he’s going to bigger and better things.

One of the reasons is we're good with young players. We develop players very well

 

[rob79safc]

But Brighton are a bigger club than SAFC, right now. It’s a good move for the lad and to be feeding clubs like Brighton and Ipswich shows we are making good progress.

Dear me …

 

[Rocky77]

Neil’s been linked at moving

That's a good thing, clubs higher up the food chain wanting our players. Show we're doing something right

 

[SAFC11]

Richer. Not bigger.

At the moment they are bigger in current terms.

 

[Rocky77]

With the exception of jobe the rest will never go on to play for a bigger club due to being either injury prone or simply not as good as some seem to think.

Don't have to be bigger, just better
There's loads of better clubs than us who aren't seen as being as big as us.

 

[chopsfc007]

Le fee back up lw now

 

[forever changes]

Think Jobe and Neil will be next

 

[Houghtoner]

He’s done next to nothing for us and decided to leave when we’re in the middle of a playoff battle.

Absolutely no loyalty to the club that have given him everything or his team mates.

He’s only what 18? It’s unusual for players of that age to have loads of appearances behind them.

Footballers don’t look at things the way us fans do. He’ll be getting a signing on fee, big jump in wages, top flight football. Don’t get how people don’t see this.

If you expect players to have the same passion and commitment for our club as you do you’ll end up being disappointed a lot.

 

[Fetch Fletch]

I’m pleased for him, and the fee, but gutted as I’ve championed him for a couple of years and hoped he’d do the business for us.

 

[Black_Cats1879]

Gutted but this is clearly an ace move for the lad. All the best to him and a shame we didn’t get to see more of him playing in the best colours in the league

 

[riffraff]

It would be immensely daft to banish our only cover for Mundle out of spite.

He won’t be committed if called upon.

 

[JOEJA]

If we can't, or aren't willing, to promote, develop and play talented and promising home-grown players that are dyed-in-the-wool fans of the club for more than a handful of games then what's the f***ing point?

This. I find it depressing personally.

 

[shkatërrues]

On the one hand ten million seems very good money for a player who’s played less than 20 first team games and not done all that much in them. On the other hand, he’s a young lad that has a lot of potential. Overall I just feel we sell our players a bit cheap - if someone like Bellingham, Rigg or Neil goes for less than £40 million this summer, we’re doing something wrong.

Realistically anything over 25 is good business for all of them. 40 mil is silly money for lads that are unproven on the bigger stage

Edit - all of them individually not as a group

 

[hertsmackem]

That doesn’t mean every signing they make will be a good one.

Feels like everybody’s getting a bit swept up in a Brighton love in here.

They’ve done fantastic, but like 3/4 of premier teams, they’ll have their turn circling the plug hole when a few things don’t go right.

Issue with mine & your posts are, you’ll say Brighton are mint cos they’ve done mint, it’ll be a few years down the line whether we can assess whether this was good/bad business for SAFC & Watson & this board is fantastic at forming an alternative opinion based on hindsight.

That’s a long way of me saying Brighton aren’t perfect & can make shit signings

I agree with you 100% he may flop completely but I am not a hater and would like to see him do well. I am sure Brighton have made mistakes in the past and will make many more.