Big money I'm guessing, only 24 years old as well. Supposedly Jhon Duran has big money offers from Saudi as well.

Gazza M Thought he was crap anyway lol. Apparently they had to agree fee with us? Not sure.

It sounds like Heaven is going to Manchester United.
I assume they are doing the same thing they did with Chido Obi Wan Kinobi - just give him an experienced player salary when he's barely getting League Cup minutes.

Personally, I’m more intrigued by Mathys Tel than Duran. I’d love to see if we could drop 40-50m on Bayern’s door and see if they blink. He’d be great immediate cover and looks like he could develop into a real world class LW or CF.

samthegooner It is looking like going into the final week there are options appearing now, the options are limited and expensive but that is the cost for doing business in January.

Gazza M heaven joining the Red devils while they're in hell. Games gone

Knew there was a reason I didn't like him

But in a serious note, he never looked to me like someone who'd be able to make the step up, and never impressed me to the point where I'm asking for him to get a few minutes here and there like we do with some of our other more impressive youth players.

Shame he's going for free and not for that 100% HG pure profit, but it is what it is. Pretty attrocious decision making from him there but I guess the money they're throwing around talks.

Big Willie i imagine they're giving him 30,000 pounds a week. His mom and dad will sit him down and tell him to grow up and stop talking about passion and cleaning Gabriel's balls. money talks.

Claudius he’s never recovered from his knee injury. If he can’t play for shitty Brighton, why would he solve our problems. Will be a big white Sterling

Ugh then absolutely no

Big Willie

Heaven forbid he turns out good, we won't hear the end of it.

I'd take Ferguson on loan if we had the space but we don't. I'd use most of that time to test his fitness and try to figure out if his issues are long term or not. If he could get fit he'd be an ideal CF to develop but that's a big if.

Qwiss

Seen more rumours of Chelsea being close to Duran.

No from me.

Hmmm can't rely on his availability unfortunately. Would be a massive gamble. Can't see it happening.

The fact that Brighton supposedly feel now is the right time to cash in on him is a warning sign in and of itself.

Counting down the days when this shitty window shuts. Most annoying window of recent times. Don’t expect anything to happen outside of the Norwegian kid.

Don Pacifico True but Brighton also have invested a fair bit in different strikers so might need the money. They've not really sold any players for big money either since Caicedo as far as I can remember and their whole business model is built around these big sales.

Loan with option would be ideal, can properly assess the player. But on a permanent would be a big gamble, need to do quite a thorough medical to make sure there are no underlying issues. Sometimes players just get unlucky.

JazzG They've not really sold any players for big money either since Caicedo as far as I can remember and their whole business model is built around these big sales.

That's my point - the fact they think now is a good time to sell suggests they think his stock won't get higher than it is now.

I just feel like what's the point of going for Ferguson if we are likely in a good spot to get Sesko this summer. Ferguson may cost a little less and is a little over a year younger but also doesn't seem to have the physical traits that Sesko has, nor the production over a sustained period of time. I'd rather be going after a different profile if we feel like we are going to come back for Sesko in the summer.

He's the flavor of the week for me but I don't see why we aren't testing Bayern's resolve for Mathys Tel. Tall, fast, and a good finisher who has looked good whenever he's played for them, but doesn't have a ton of playing time at the moment. He's the type of opportunistic signing that I think is made for the January window, even if we would have to pay a little more for what he is projected to be, as opposed to his current level. I'd be up for taking a gamble on a player like him at a higher price than an injury prone Ferguson personally. I hope we are at least asking about him.

Come on substitute Edu…

You can read his Tel? Poor poker face.

Would Tel solve anything for us? I don't see how it'll help us close out the season. He's another longer term project

naz I dunno, but his jib is pretty well cut.

Has played 6 games since May 2024. Under 40 games since 2022, yeah this will work out great for all.

I don't see Tel having any impact on the team this season. Could be worth a move in summer for the right price but he wouldn't be e displacing Martinelli any time soon.

Qwiss Maybe he wouldn't have a massive impact but just having that kind of pace and fresh legs up top will massively take the pressure off our other players. We would be able to do that without a massive drop off in quality.

He is a good player though, not sure what has happened at Bayern for him but he can also play out wide which is a bonus.

Sounds like we are pushing either for a permanent deal or an option to buy.

JazzG only time will Tel

JazzG bayern supporters seem to be unanimously against selling him and want a loan deal only.

Claudius Unfortunately this forum doesn't have a dislike feature

Gazza M Interesting, Gravenberch is one who left and seems to have found his feet. Tel is up against stiff competition at Bayern as well, they were well stacked across their front line. Went onto the Bayern forum on reddit and a few there complaining that Coman, and Gnabry getting starts over him. A lot of fans not happy about him leaving which is only a positive!

yeah, it's a werid dynamic. the only true centre forward is 90 year old Spud, Harry Kane. and there are bunnc of old and / or injured AMs in Conman, Gnabry, Muller and Sane. the only person with a reasonable future path is Olise. so you'd think they would want to make it easy for him to stay.

Sicario2 - Tier 1 he’s 19, those appearance stats are skewed- he’s only started around 20 games or so