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I suspect Brighton weren't totally happy with the club after the Ayari situation.

I think it's more a recognition that leadership and experience are core components of any winning side.

If they haven't already been used to cover operational costs there's also the fee and wages saved from Palmer leaving in the summer. Perhaps these funds were earmarked for reinvestment in January.

Possibly. The media are making a lot of noise about it though and will probably announce it anyway assuming it goes through. So might force the clubs hand to do the same. Internal media content such as first thoughts etc. yes could come afterwards though.

I would've thought given how Doug likes to operate that any contract will be bonus heavy. His base salary won't be £30k pw. The club can't afford that plus bonuses on top.

They'll have zero knowledge of what he's currently on or what he's being offered by us. It's complete guesswork on their part.

The fact Bigi, Thomas, Clarke, Christie, and Cameron all featured a fair amount during that season and none other than possibly Christie had the ability to play in the Championship shows how thin on the ground we were.

I strongly suspect there had been conversations between his agent and SL at that point. Not impossible that a move could've been fast tracked, especially if he would've been made available on a fairly cut price deal. Either way even if conversations hadn't happened by then, I doubt he would've...

Not sure that's right. If anything it would've made the pathway much easier for him as clubs would've been able to secure him on a cut price deal - which means more options. As others have said I'm also fairly sure he was angling for a move in Jan as well.

SISU were literally stripping cost out of every single facet of the club from top to bottom. Over a period of 3 transfer windows the playing squad was completely decimated. Thorn was dreadful, but it's pretty obvious that regardless of who was in place that there was literally no way to prevent...

You only have to look at the budget available for the following summer when we dropped down to L1 to give you an indication of how that summer window would've panned out if we'd somehow remained in the Championship. Loans that would've cost the club nothing, cheap free agents replacing players...

I really don't think it would've made much difference. Assuming a more competent manager was appointed instead of Thorn and he would've kept us up, the season following would've been a huge uphill battle. Cranie, Keogh, Clingan and Lukas would've gone regardless who was manager as SISU were...

It's a trivial argument. Even without Thorn we would've almost certainly gone down the season after as SISU would've pushed through further player sales to cover the losses and once again, as we saw in the summer of 11/12, barely any incomings would've been brought in.

I literally never said that. Carry on being annoyed about nothing.

Completely different kind of midfielder.

Sorry my mistake

He's played in the PL for 10 years. I can guarantee he's not on 25k pw.

Another one that's on a dreadful run at the minute over the past 6 games. They've conceded 18 goals over that period as well. They've recently failed in appealing Harry Darling's ban so he'll still be suspended. Need to take the game to them really from the off given their frailty at the back.

He's obviously not going to sign a new deal so doesn't really leave the club much choice.

I think the club will keep Allen for that very reason. It'd cost more to replace him than keep him. He's a fairly low cost option for the role he plays really. Unless he's keen to move on there's not much point in putting time and resource into replacing a player that doesn't need replacing...