Laughable Chimp

But how much does that increase in valuation come from the owners directly inserting more of their own money into the club? If they bought the club for 70 million and then dumped a further 530 million of their own money into the club, then even selling for 600 million wouldn't mean they'd turn a profit.\

Well if we're judging him from the business side of the operation we've reported a total of 260 million pounds in losses since he's been at the wheel. Our owners are supposed to savvy businessman right? I may not be an accountant, but I just find it hard to see our owners seeing us as a profitable venture if we continue to post significant losses.

7 games is far too small a sample size to be able to make predictions off the rest of the season off. Look back at the first 7 games under Gerrard and try and tell me that was a good predictor of what was to come. We're on hot form right now but the reality is that its extremely unlikely we'll be able to maintain this form until the end of the season. We can't extrapolate what will happen in the rest of this season based on just these stretch of games.

Probably alex scott.

Can’t help but feel Duran’s arrival has effectively closed the door for him considering he’s 2 years younger and arguably better already. He needs to really hit form with Boro.

3 goals and 2 assists in his last 40 games and last I heard he was being linked with bournemouth for 30m. Then add in his injury record. Stay the **** away.

Never forget https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/5-fastest-players-english-premier-league-history-nunez-walker-traore

Hasn't scored or assisted since October so, probably not that well.

This would blow the transfer record for the chilean league out of the water.

Brighton like to sign players from more unknown leagues. Think Polish league, Czech league, Japanese league etc. La liga isn't an unknown league. The MLS isn't either, you could argue its about the same level as the Championship. If you have a young player already performing in these leagues, chances are they're on many scouts shortlists and will cost some money.

Dewsbury-Hall had a successful spell with Luton in the championship the season before he broke through with Leicester though. Unless we decide he's good enough to be with our first team(unlikely), Azaz will probably be given a season-long loan in the Championship next season. If he manages to perform there as well, he'd practically be 24 by the time he'd be seriously considered as part of our first team. That's pretty damn late but it shouldn't be an issue if he is indeed good enough. But there will be no room for mistakes from him.

Strasbourg must love us.

Yep, we might need some backup in certain areas. I just think we don’t really need it in midfield. We’re bare in the fullback, wings and striker areas. That last one should be solved when Duran gets up to speed.

With Sanson gone we should still have Dendoncker to tide us over and Mcginn when he comes back. Worst comes to worse, we could always move Ramsey back into central midfield and move Bailey back out wide. A replacement isn’t really necessary

Tbh, considering his form in league 2 last year, to the point of winning the league 2 young player of the year award, I was a bit surprised we only got him a league 1 move this season. Yeah jumping 2 leagues up is a bit much, but consider Azaz’s age, we might’ve needed to throw him into the deep end more with him. And its not like we’ve been shy about moving some of our other players quickly up the leagues, even when they weren’t as successful for as long as Azaz had been. Jacob Ramsey went from half a season in league 1 to the PL. Kesler took 1 year to go from league 2 to the championship. Archer went from an okay loan in the national league straight to the championship, etc. It does strike me as our academy setup just never rated his potential much as our other youngsters but he keeps proving them wrong.

Minor nitpick but if wikipedia is to be believed, he would’ve turned 22 on 30 December 2017. He had joined Brentford in the championship 6 months earlier.

According to wikipedia, 4. But I did some research on harry kane’s loan spells before and I think its actually a poor example for a player that struggled at his younger years. Firstly, he had 1 loan at league 1 level, 3 at championship level so already a higher level than barry is. Secondly, And its not like he kept failing his loans and kept being loaned out because of it, he succeeded at his first 2 loans. Its only the last 2 that were a bit iffy and one of those he was injured almost the entire way. Lastly, he did all these loans before he even turned 20 years old. Whilst Barry is currently struggling near the bottom of league 1, at that exact same age Kane was part of the leicester squad that played against watford in that famous playoff semi-final. A year before that he had already had a successful spell with millwall in the championship, even winnkng their young player of the year award. so yeah, kane really is not a good example of someone making it despite having a disappointing start.

Never heard of him before. What a bizarre career he’s had going from scoring goals in the Bundesliga at 18 to not even getting gametime at middlesbrough now. There were actually other forwards middlesbrough had that I didn’t mention in my original post because based on their form, they didn’t seem like they’d be competition to Archer. I didn’t notice Hoppe as he’s had even less gametime than these guys I didn’t mention.

Think we just got unlucky here really. I don’t think playing a centre mid up top was intended to be a long-term strategy for them. He had only been playing up top for them for like 2 games before Archer came in. Boro probably strongly considered the possibility that this experiment wouldn’t work and they would need a proper striker starting for them at some point. We loaned them archer with the expectation that this would happen, which it still might.

Obviously, we shouldn’t completely write off a player who’s only 19 years of age but I think its safe to say he probably won’t make the grade as a pl footballer. I can see him having a solid career in the championship though.

By my count its 8 goals in 36 actually. 1 goal every 300 minutes.

Ashley Young's penalty record(not including shootouts) is 5 scored to 3 missed. That's not a good return. I'd go with luiz.

This is a player who neither has the pedigree of Ings nor has the potential of Kamara. He isn’t exactly a hot property here and is very much a player who has lost his way. Yet you think we’d be paying him as much as we did for those two? Jesus, just because he’ll be coming in for cheap doesn’t mean his salary is going to suddenly balloon to stupid levels. If he was given a salary that large, he’d be the highest paid player for several clubs. Do you really think we’d give that money to a guy who is most likely going to be our backup striker, paying him more than most our starting lineup? Ollie would be demanding a payrise.

Closest would be pressing stats but fbref removed that a few months ago. I remember his pressing stats being good, but not as good as you'd think based on how people describe him.

They are "verified" according to Capology, their source for their wage data. "A player's wage is considered 'verified' if it's been provided directly by the club or agent, and/or confirmed by multiple sources".