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They are doing what we should have done last Summer - recruiting from a position of strength.

Surely he means this...

But he is under contract and doesn't need to join a club if he doesn't want to. He's probably hoping for a big 6 / Newcastle or Villa.

Wonder if we were the PL club?

Waiting to see who the manager will be perhaps, in which case he's probably off.

You know it's coming..... "We looked at a range of excellent candidates but Cooper was our number one choice from the start. We're constantly monitoring potential coaches as part of our succession planning and Steve is someone we've held interest in for some time......" 😭

Exactly. Baleba was £23 m having played less than 500 minutes!

This is all I could find, but I think this means interest in the past (and not present)...

He was nearly tempted to Palace in February, so you'd have assumed the club realised then that we might not be the only ones in the running.

Saw this on Twitter earlier...

Agents: Because that's how names often get into the media/public domain. Naming a target: Alex Crook often knows the inside scoop on Brighton, I seem to remember they used him during the Arsenal/ Caicedo drama to repeat that we would not sell. Here he is naming a target.

We don't (unless it benefits us), but agents do - hence how things are generally known before official announcements and how Romano has made a career.

If we really wanted him, we could easily salary match and offer a bigger transfer spend.

Aside from the 'big six' clubs, who can command what they like, every club in the PL this season - aside from Villa with Emery and Burnley with Kompany - recruited their current manager as a free agent.

The fact that Barber knew him from his Spurs time (and got him work in Vancouver) suggests that there must have been some kind of informal chat prior to RDZ leaving, giving the club the idea that it would be a formality. Plus, Alex Crook tweeted out immediately after the RDZ announcement to...