If Brighton do want £50m for Bissouma, I wonder if we’ll do the deal.
Its probably £10-15m too much but we may only have a sniff of signing him because it’s January and other clubs, for whatever reason, can’t do the deal until Summer.
A point also worth making is, we could double his wages to 100k a week. He may want more than that and wait until the summer but that’s another 6 months on £45k a week. If he moves now and secures 100k a week, that’s an extra £1.2m in his back pocket (less tax etc.). Not an insignificant amount of money!
I think the deal has legs. Potters comments alluded to players possibly leaving in January and the noise around the deal is starting to grow. We’re also being extremely aggressive in the market. It seems at the moment that whoever we go for, we get the deal done.