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Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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When I saw the tweet from the club my brain took his name and immediately auto-translated it to him being sold.
mr_monkey
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Bertola
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Robins said last week that he was expecting this, and that Vik would be allowed to join up with the rest of the squad later than when they return....
I'm still expecting a meltdown when hes not in any pictures from the first week of pre-season
jimmyhillsfanclub
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Hopefully he plays & scores......may add another £1m to the fee we get in July....
clint van damme
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I thought it wasabout a travel pack of vapour rub.
SleepyGinger
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What might help our chances of keeping Vik this year is that there are a lot of championship strikers of similar age/record to him.
Players like Piroe, Brereton-Diaz, Adebayo might be more attractive to the potential suitors.
Players like Piroe, Brereton-Diaz, Adebayo might be more attractive to the potential suitors.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Legia Sky Blue
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Am I the only one that doesn't want any bids?
stay_up_skyblues
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No. I’d rather keep him. The money (or in practice probably less than 50% of what is received) sounds good but his goals and overall game will be unbelievably difficult to replace. We could find another Gyo but we could also end up with another Walker.
In fairness, even if we did sell and replace him with another Walker, that’s still a pretty good side, even before you get to reinvesting the rest of the cash.
Calista
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Got to disagree. A proper centre forward is the focal point of almost any good side (unless you've got billions of pounds of talent like Man City), and Gyokeres is the best we've had since dropping out of the Prem IMO. He takes the fight to the opposition in a way that someone like Walker will never do. Look at how Everton and Leeds fell off a cliff in the absence of Calvert-Lewin and Bamford. Albeit at a level below, Vik is our equivalent of those players, and would be incredibly hard to replace.
I mean, it's hard to say given how regularly we played last year - there were only five league games he didn't start in (won 1, lost 1, drew 3). Selling him would require a big change in tactics, but that's not a reason to hold at all costs. Unless we think he's going to get us promoted on his own, then it's in our interests to sell when he hits peak value. I expect him to continue to improve next season, and I'd rather keep him around, but if someone wants to offer us Oli McBurnie money then realistically we're always going to sell, and it wouldn't be a disaster anyway.
Mucca Mad Boys
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To support what you say, of all the games he’s scored this season, we’ve only lost one game where Gyo has scored. That game was Huddersfield (H).
Personally, I don’t think Gyo is ready for the next level, yet. For one more season, we’re the ideal place for him to Continue his development.
cov donkey kick
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With vik minimum 18 million age,potential only improving make that 20 million
PUSB-We_are_going_up
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I think potentially could reach that if he scores a couple goals for Sweden
cov donkey kick
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The last big money striker we produced was Callum Wilson and think he went for not big money but good sell one so Vic must be big initial money as sisu will keep most of it as is there financial model so robins will still get 2 or 3 million out of a big fee.
Shame Wilson has spent more time out than on the pitch.
Shame Wilson has spent more time out than on the pitch.
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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There needs to be some investment in the side regardless, but it would feel very much one step forward and two steps back if we funded it by selling Viktor. He is our best player in my opinion.
Speedie's Head
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I can't see all three of the big names starting the season - it suits season ticket sales to keep up the pretence. If Gyoks becomes a full blown international on the back of this opportunity then we can't afford to hold on to him and, frankly, he'd be daft to stay.
SlowerThanPlatt
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He may start one game because they have 4 in 11 days I think it is. Elanga, Isak and Kulusevski are ahead of him in the forward positions. Last time he was called up he didn’t even make the bench
SleepyGinger
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Yeah think he’s quite unlucky actually, Sweden got their best attacking options in years and all young
Mucca Mad Boys
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Not necessarily. It really depends on your recruitment. Brentford sold Watkins for ~30m and replaced him with Toney for a third of that. Toney has probably done better at Brentford than Watkins which is some achievement!
stay_up_skyblues
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Dont know the ins and outs of the Watkins sale. But in our scenario if we get £15m (at very most and this is optimistic) then Brighton probably get half. SISU then take a fair chunk for the investors and/or a big percentage goes to the club’s running costs. in reality MR could get as little as £2-£5m to reinvest. In absence of finding another gem then it may not touch the sides in replacing what Gyo is to the team.
Its all moot if his head gets turned and he wants to go but I just can’t get too excited about the potential income from his sale.
mark82
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There's no way Brighton get half. Maybe 20% of profit, wouldn't think much more.
stay_up_skyblues
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Id agree if we’d paid proper money for him but if it was the £1m mooted I’d assume they’ve got a massive sell on in there.
shmmeee
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Why? He had a year on his contract and had just come off a very unimpressive season in the championship.