This is Fabrizio Romano btw, weird to see he is actually a real person 
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“Finally”
£45mil in this market is mental!
Don’t these release clauses tend to require the full whack to be paid up in one go?
Brighton might be getting less than market value (I still think £45m would be top end of what he’s worth but hey, that’s just me) but are we stumping that in full?
They’ll be able to buy a whole new team with that.
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Possibly, but it isn’t in Brighton’s interests to behave like bellends.
The reason why the get players, like Mac Allister and Caicedo and Cucarella, is because they can help them with their move to the big club when it comes. If Brighton get a reputation for being dicks with outgoing transfers, then they will struggle to get players on the way up.
With transfers, it usually makes sense for everyone to behave like grown ups and be fair with each other.
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Brighton already have a bunch of guys to bring in…
Jakub Moder missed last season woth an injury but he’ll be back.
Yasin Ayari was signed in January and hasn’t had much of a look in but been in every matchday squad.
Kacper Kozlowski has played regularly for Vitesse Arnham this season.
Steven Alzate is due back from a solid spell woth Standard Liege.
Jack Hinshelwood got some game time at the end of the season and they also have Jensen Weir who has had a good loan with Morecambe.
Will be interesting to see which 7 lads from the Welsh university league, Vietnamese division 2 and the Vatican they choose to bring in and make a £50m player this summer.
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The Athletic did a good piece a year or so back on what Liverpool lost when Gini left and the story is a bit more nuanced than that. Defensively he was important, but his stats on personally winning the ball back were weak. Instead what the stats showed was a player who plugged gaps in a way that made us difficult to play through. His presence forced them to play into other areas, which, if everyone else was doing their job, enabled them to win the ball. This is the still underappreciated aspect of pressing. It is not so much about running around trying to win the ball back, but smartly applying pressure to make them play the ball into the areas you’re well set up to win it back. Someone who plays the role as well as he did means that someone like Fab has a much smaller area of the pitch to be responsible for. If you cannot direct which spaces on the pitch the opposition get to play in you have to defend a much bigger area of grass.
In terms of Alexis, he’s just a really well rounded player. He’s technically sound, but his best strength is probably the way he plays the game in his head. Gundogan is probably the best comparison and I’d expect that fitness permitting, regardless of what else we do in the summer, he will be starting games for us from day 1
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Thing is as you’ve said before they can risk it.
Elliott and Jones plays poorly in several games the fan base wants them driven to Lime Street or John Lennon airport.
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Maybe he cracks the webcam out for the deals he actually gets right
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No point in driving them to Lime Street, they won’t be going anywhere.
So its looking like we are getting him for half the price the chavs paid for Enzo. 
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When we were first linked a while ago, I suggested the fee would be way lower than the sums being touted at the time. People pushed back, as in this market he is a £70M player, but the contract was the all important factor.
He could have gone on a Bosman this summer, but instead renewed with Brighton. At that point a win-win-win looked the most likely outcome.
MacAllister would not be priced out of a move - win
Instead of losing a Bosman, Brighton would get a payday - win
The buying club would get a good player for a very reasonable fee - win
Bring it on. Good player.
Now we are all watching to see who else comes in.
One more or two more midfielders?
And what defender?
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It definitely looks like the fee will be relatively reasonable. The only downside to that is that it will feed into certain people’s rhetoric that we’re only signing him because FSG are too cheap to pay out for a more expensive option.
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Fuck’em
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Oh yeah I think Brighton know the game and they’re happy playing it.
I was more interested to know if we’re paying a clause does that then mean we’re paying the fee in full up front. If so, does that impact what we could do this summer compared to the normal staggered payments. But as it’s being reported as “not a typical release clause” then maybe it’s just a set amount and the structuring of payments would be more in line with how they normally are done.
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Yeah but if they hadn’t bought him they wouldn’t have got European football
I think this article can help you understand what MacAlister’s real strengths are,
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Last time we had a Macallister we won cups galore 
Including the precursor same trophy as the Europa League
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Alexis wants move completed before travelling to join Argentina NT.
So do we Mac Allister, so do we 
https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1665978585750859776?s=20
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