You are right in saying Watkins probably has a better all round game but he is 29 whereas Duran is 21, so has plenty of time to iron out chinks in his game.

Something about him, he looks a physical specimen and seems to have the x factor about him, can score a goal out of nothing. His movement is top class on top.

est He's been playing in this league for 3 seasons now, I'm sure our scouts will know him inside out by now.

Claudius what we know about Arteta is he likes to stick to his plan

Is that true? Have we signed anyone who turned us down originally? We moved on from guys like Vlahovic and Raphina extremely quickly.

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.

    Doubt we’ll bring in anyone.

    Watch Havertz get injured in a couple of weeks

    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.

        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.