Loan to Bournemouth would be the move I’d have my eye on if I’m Vuskovic. No chance in hell I’m taking a permanent move to Brighton or any similarly sized club unless I’be got a concrete 60m release clause in my contract day one.
Nice I hadn’t seen numbers floated. I don’t think we’re serious on Vuskovic. At the beginning of the off season rumors were we wouldn’t spend over what we spent on Rutter a couple years ago which was like 40 mil.
Vuskovic was one of the top CBs in the entire Bundesliga this season. That alone should put him over 50. Factor in his age and it should be higher.
With respect to Branthwaite, Vuskovic is just a totally different level of prospect. That said, teams can demand what they want and that’s the price.
Seb Stafford-Bloor from the athletic is co-reporting on this with Ornstein. Seb covers Bundesliga and has specific ties to Hamburg. He went on a Tottenham pod recently in effort to kinda calm down the hype for this upcoming season regarding Vuskovic. He mentioned the system Hamburg plays being something completely different than what he’d be in at Spurs, and most other PL teams. He said pretty strongly that he needed another year on loan before being relied on for first team Spurs. This interview is what convinced me to finally be ok with the idea of loaning him again. But it sounds like Vuskovic wants something permanent and to have somewhere to settle into. Makes sense to me. But I hope we hold strong. I suspect we will.
Looks like Haaland had a great time at the Stanley Cup final last night. Glad he got to enjoy a playoff game in Raleigh. Probably the loudest building in the league and they showed it last night.
Last I’ll post about it for now… I went back and looked at the timeline with Saliba and Arsenal. It was not a very amicable situation either. From what I’ve read, definitely sounded like the player wasn’t happy with how it played out and there was a decent amount of debate about it all while it was happening. Obviously, it all worked out for the best. I don’t think the Vuskovic situation is that different. -> Vuskovic wants guaranteed minutes. We can’t really offer him that right now and he may not be ready for it anyways. -> Logical move is another loan. He desperately wants to go back to Hamburg to play with his brother. We said no. -> Vuskovic is hurt by this. His agent/team starts kicking tires on other teams. Brighton makes an offer. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think this is all that’s happened. The club just needs to hold strong on their stance. Ideal outcome would be a new deal + a loan. But if he makes a big fuss, sell him for a huge price. And I think it’ll play out in one of these two ways.
The big difference is that Saliba is a boyhood Arsenal fan who said playing for the club was his dream. Probably saved us, if we’re honest.
This is a cool signing if we pull it off. He got 17 goals and 23 assists in their league last season.
I’m honestly sad our regular Euro contingent didn’t get to witness that US first half. Truly beautiful footy.
Happy for the Americans who frequent this thread! Hard to tell from highlights how good you were and how bad Paraguay were, hut Balogun looked exceptional.
I witnessed but it was very much in preparation to stay up to watch Scotland at the same time tonight
Our midfielder Engels seems to be attracting interest from a lot of clubs that I feel are far beyond what I thought he would. Forest had a £25m bid rejected for him in January and whilst he's getting linked with them, Fulham and Sunderland... there's also a big story today saying he's attracting interest from Napoli, Lazio and Milan. We're really good at selling players so keen to see what fee he goes for and hopefully we get some better creative players as replacements for him tohugh he is high energy in midfield.