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Micah Mbick - 20/1/2026 The Athletic reporting Brighton have had 2 bids for him rejected (p12)
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10million get real. He hasn’t even played a Championship gameMendonca In Asdas said:I'd hold out for 10 million, the kids going to be mustard!2 -
Yet Brighton think he can play a Premier League game...raytreacy said:
10million get real. He hasn’t even played a Championship gameMendonca In Asdas said:I'd hold out for 10 million, the kids going to be mustard!14 -
In the future.ForeverAddickted said:
Yet Brighton think he can play a Premier League game...raytreacy said:
10million get real. He hasn’t even played a Championship gameMendonca In Asdas said:I'd hold out for 10 million, the kids going to be mustard!
more money in a sell on clause. Remember Caicedo sold for £115 million. 5 mill plus a 20% sell on would be very good business I’d suggest.3 -
Now / In the future... Doesnt really matter... If they think that he can play Premier League Football at some stage, then they can pay double that amount... Lets be honest, they can afford it, and if it works out they'll get more than double their money back.RC_CAFC said:
In the future.ForeverAddickted said:
Yet Brighton think he can play a Premier League game...raytreacy said:
10million get real. He hasn’t even played a Championship gameMendonca In Asdas said:I'd hold out for 10 million, the kids going to be mustard!
more money in a sell on clause. Remember Caicedo sold for £115 million. 5 mill plus a 20% sell on would be very good business I’d suggest.0 -
I remember when Steve Gallen said something similar about Sorba Thomas. Thought he was overpriced because he hadn't played in League One. Then he went to Huddersfield and smashed it. Who knows what he's worth now.raytreacy said:
10million get real. He hasn’t even played a Championship gameMendonca In Asdas said:I'd hold out for 10 million, the kids going to be mustard!
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True, but we have to think about the here and now as well. £5million now will be worth more to us to keep us in this league than £10million in the summer in league one because we’ve taken too long to negotiate and can’t spend the money in January.ForeverAddickted said:
Now / In the future... Doesnt really matter... If they think that he can play Premier League Football at some stage, then they can pay double that amount... Let’s be honest, they can afford it, and if it works out they'll get more than double their money back.RC_CAFC said:
In the future.ForeverAddickted said:
Yet Brighton think he can play a Premier League game...raytreacy said:
10million get real. He hasn’t even played a Championship gameMendonca In Asdas said:I'd hold out for 10 million, the kids going to be mustard!
more money in a sell on clause. Remember Caicedo sold for £115 million. 5 mill plus a 20% sell on would be very good business I’d suggest.The sell on is of course very important though.0 -
Yep sounds mad but stats wise they think he’d be better than welbeck…..0
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Whilst I agree the funds would help us in the mean time with transfers,I'd genuinely hope we have the money regardless of this deal and if not that's more worrying.RC_CAFC said:
True, but we have to think about the here and now as well. £5million now will be worth more to us to keep us in this league than £10million in the summer in league one because we’ve taken too long to negotiate and can’t spend the money in January.ForeverAddickted said:
Now / In the future... Doesnt really matter... If they think that he can play Premier League Football at some stage, then they can pay double that amount... Let’s be honest, they can afford it, and if it works out they'll get more than double their money back.RC_CAFC said:
In the future.ForeverAddickted said:
Yet Brighton think he can play a Premier League game...raytreacy said:
10million get real. He hasn’t even played a Championship gameMendonca In Asdas said:I'd hold out for 10 million, the kids going to be mustard!
more money in a sell on clause. Remember Caicedo sold for £115 million. 5 mill plus a 20% sell on would be very good business I’d suggest.The sell on is of course very important though.2 -
You wouldn't really be able to use that £5m this month anyway I don't think - You'd only be buying someone for an over inflated transfer, because those clubs would know that we have the money, and would know that they don't have the time to replace that player themselves.RC_CAFC said:
True, but we have to think about the here and now as well. £5million now will be worth more to us to keep us in this league than £10million in the summer in league one because we’ve taken too long to negotiate and can’t spend the money in January.ForeverAddickted said:
Now / In the future... Doesnt really matter... If they think that he can play Premier League Football at some stage, then they can pay double that amount... Let’s be honest, they can afford it, and if it works out they'll get more than double their money back.RC_CAFC said:
In the future.ForeverAddickted said:
Yet Brighton think he can play a Premier League game...raytreacy said:
10million get real. He hasn’t even played a Championship gameMendonca In Asdas said:I'd hold out for 10 million, the kids going to be mustard!
more money in a sell on clause. Remember Caicedo sold for £115 million. 5 mill plus a 20% sell on would be very good business I’d suggest.The sell on is of course very important though.5 -
Good timing for the directors meeting for everyone to ask about our future stars and if we will see Mbick again in a Charlton shirt1
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Perhaps, but I think there is a difference between the possible access to funds and the desire/need to be sustainable. £5million now would give us that option.Steven81 said:
Whilst I agree the funds would help us in the mean time with transfers,I'd genuinely hope we have the money regardless of this deal and if not that's more worrying.RC_CAFC said:
True, but we have to think about the here and now as well. £5million now will be worth more to us to keep us in this league than £10million in the summer in league one because we’ve taken too long to negotiate and can’t spend the money in January.ForeverAddickted said:
Now / In the future... Doesnt really matter... If they think that he can play Premier League Football at some stage, then they can pay double that amount... Let’s be honest, they can afford it, and if it works out they'll get more than double their money back.RC_CAFC said:
In the future.ForeverAddickted said:
Yet Brighton think he can play a Premier League game...raytreacy said:
10million get real. He hasn’t even played a Championship gameMendonca In Asdas said:I'd hold out for 10 million, the kids going to be mustard!
more money in a sell on clause. Remember Caicedo sold for £115 million. 5 mill plus a 20% sell on would be very good business I’d suggest.The sell on is of course very important though.Obviously want Charlton to get us much as possible but equally conscious he’s never done anything above league 2 so his value is slightly limited above that at this point.2 -
I wonder if we'd be able to recall Micah at this stage anyway.A lot of player loan deals, have a deadline as to when they can be recalled by. If Brighton do sign him this month, he might have to go back to Colchester (unless he hangs around in their U21s)1
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Like Dan Kanu, Micah is having a great season and has clearly caught the eye.
He's a big strong boy, fast, a good finisher and he's English. Historically we would chew Brighton's arm off ay an offer like this but now we don't need to. If Micah finishes the season as one of the top scorers in L2 despite being only 19 he will, without doubt, be on many premier league club radars. He will also be in the £10m bracket.
Goalscorers are hard to find, English ones even more so. He scores all sorts of goals too but his link-up play also makes a mockery of his age sometimes. He really does have something special about him and that's why his value will be high.
We wouldn't be able to invest the £3.5m in this window so it makes perfect sense to keep hold of him, see how this season pans out and see what summer brings. His value is only going to go one way and it's not down!11 -
If we want to be a solid Championship club and have even higher ambitions beyond that we need to behave like those clubs do.
He’s an England youth international who’s having a good season in his first loan as a teenager. If he performs in the Championship in the next year or two he’ll be comfortably worth £10m+.
It would be madness to be such a soft touch and sell him for £4-5m. That won’t go far at this level, as we know from the summer spending.11 -
Might as well sell Mbick, we won't know how to use him.
Don't worry we've got Lyndon Dykes in.
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To be fair, you also said today, if they get him he's likely to play in the premier league this season, which someone told you is impossible.Red_Chester said:I did say Brighton wanted him and they’re confident they’ll get him…..2 -
Not now they don’t. That’s pie in the sky. They are buying potential. Potential doesn’t always lead to fulfilment. If we are offered 5m plus add ons I think that is too good to refuse.ForeverAddickted said:
Yet Brighton think he can play a Premier League game...raytreacy said:
10million get real. He hasn’t even played a Championship gameMendonca In Asdas said:I'd hold out for 10 million, the kids going to be mustard!2 -
I'd caveat it with realistic add ons. No point adding a clause that he is unlikely to meetLargeAddick said:
Not now they don’t. That’s pie in the sky. They are buying potential. Potential doesn’t always lead to fulfilment. If we are offered 5m plus add ons I think that is too good to refuse.ForeverAddickted said:
Yet Brighton think he can play a Premier League game...raytreacy said:
10million get real. He hasn’t even played a Championship gameMendonca In Asdas said:I'd hold out for 10 million, the kids going to be mustard!1 -
Keep him until the summer
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Sorry I got that wrong, I’ve been told they think he’s ready to play in the prem now. Our fans are a weird bunch, I won’t bother sharing info next time…can keep the threads talking about other posters rather than sharing actual information 😂stoneroses19 said:
To be fair, you also said today, if they get him he's likely to play in the premier league this season, which someone told you is impossible.Red_Chester said:I did say Brighton wanted him and they’re confident they’ll get him…..0 -
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Certain number of club appearances including cup games, as well as international call ups (u20 upwards) would work. But realistic as you say, no point having the club appearances in the 100s before we see any extra cash.fenaddick said:
I'd caveat it with realistic add ons. No point adding a clause that he is unlikely to meetLargeAddick said:
Not now they don’t. That’s pie in the sky. They are buying potential. Potential doesn’t always lead to fulfilment. If we are offered 5m plus add ons I think that is too good to refuse.ForeverAddickted said:
Yet Brighton think he can play a Premier League game...raytreacy said:
10million get real. He hasn’t even played a Championship gameMendonca In Asdas said:I'd hold out for 10 million, the kids going to be mustard!Sell on fee is certainly the thing to push Brighton on, as no doubt that will be their plan, whether it's after being successful or not. I'd want 20% minimum though. Guess that depends on how much we decide to let him go in first place. Lower initial fee, the higher sell on percentage.0 -
shine166 said:Keep him until the summerI can’t quite see the point of that one. His value can’t go up more this season because he’s already proved he can cut it in league two.I either think you sell him now for the maximum we can get or we keep hold of him to play him next year.0
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Exactly, if we stay up and he's top scorer in the league we'll get more or he starts for us. Flog him now and we get money we cant spend.RC_CAFC said:shine166 said:Keep him until the summerI can’t quite see the point of that one. His value can’t go up more this season because he’s already proved he can cut it in league two.I either think you sell him now for the maximum we can get or we keep hold of him to play him next year.3 -
Of course his value can go up, he's scored 6 goals this season. If he converts that to close to 15 his value will definitely riseRC_CAFC said:shine166 said:Keep him until the summerI can’t quite see the point of that one. His value can’t go up more this season because he’s already proved he can cut it in league two.I either think you sell him now for the maximum we can get or we keep hold of him to play him next year.1 -
I’ve read a number of people post that we can turn down 5m, ‘we don’t need the money’. Who says we don’t? I assume the response will be that ‘our owners are minted’. They may be but if they were that minted and happy to throw money around left, right and centre then why haven’t they invested more heavily in the squad? Why are we not now going out and paying what’s needed to get in a decent LWB? Why if x club wants 1.5m and we are offering 1m don’t we pay the 1.5m and be done with it. After all, they are minted.
The reason is because they are not prepared to chuck money around and I assume want to run the club as a sustainable business. If so then part of that is balancing the books and part of balancing the books is having to sell players. That means selling players that us fans don’t think we should sell yet and certainly not at the prices quoted. But what we think doesn’t matter. Unfortunately that is the way that it is.6 -
Of course his value can increase before the summer. At the moment he's on 5 or 6 goals for season, if he gets that up to 15+ then that's more for us to push a higher fee, or other clubs may notice him too.RC_CAFC said:shine166 said:Keep him until the summerI can’t quite see the point of that one. His value can’t go up more this season because he’s already proved he can cut it in league two.I either think you sell him now for the maximum we can get or we keep hold of him to play him next year.1 -
I just don't understand the upside here... We are trading the chance of transformational money later for marginal money now.LargeAddick said:I’ve read a number of people post that we can turn down 5m, ‘we don’t need the money’. Who says we don’t? I assume the response will be that ‘our owners are minted’. They may be but if they were that minted and happy to throw money around left, right and centre then why haven’t they invested more heavily in the squad? Why are we not now going out and paying what’s needed to get in a decent LWB? Why if x club wants 1.5m and we are offering 1m don’t we pay the 1.5m and be done with it. After all, they are minted.
The reason is because they are not prepared to chuck money around and I assume want to run the club as a sustainable business. If so then part of that is balancing the books and part of balancing the books is having to sell players. That means selling players that us fans don’t think we should sell yet and certainly not at the prices quoted. But what we think doesn’t matter. Unfortunately that is the way that it is.
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- cash in
- buy a LCB & LWB
- stay in the Championship4 -
That’s the conundrum though. Mbick could flop, get injured etc and be playing League Two for the rest of his career and we realise nada in transfer fees. Or he could soar and be worth 60m in three years time and we think if only. In an ideal world of course we’d all like to hang on to Mbick, Fullah etc etc but unfortunately it doesn’t work like that. Only the owners know to what extent we may need those funds now.Chunes said:
I just don't understand the upside here... We are trading the chance of transformational money later for marginal money now.LargeAddick said:I’ve read a number of people post that we can turn down 5m, ‘we don’t need the money’. Who says we don’t? I assume the response will be that ‘our owners are minted’. They may be but if they were that minted and happy to throw money around left, right and centre then why haven’t they invested more heavily in the squad? Why are we not now going out and paying what’s needed to get in a decent LWB? Why if x club wants 1.5m and we are offering 1m don’t we pay the 1.5m and be done with it. After all, they are minted.
The reason is because they are not prepared to chuck money around and I assume want to run the club as a sustainable business. If so then part of that is balancing the books and part of balancing the books is having to sell players. That means selling players that us fans don’t think we should sell yet and certainly not at the prices quoted. But what we think doesn’t matter. Unfortunately that is the way that it is.4 -
Can we get worthwhile players for the cash though? The fixed fee is reported as £2.5m and that's unlikely to be paid in one go because transfer fees rarely are. If we get £1m now (and teams know we have) then can we bring in two quality players for £500k each or can we only bring in one or two overpriced backups who wouldn't get a sniff ahead of Edwards and Bell if they could walk? Maybe we do get the £2.5m straight away and it tips what we've been quoted for someone good into acceptable territory but if we're being quoted £1m for a L1 LWB that we wouldn't otherwise pay anything like that for then it makes things more complicated. Bringing in a good LWB is so important but if we're getting quoted daft money for someone who would be this season's equivalent of Matt Penney then that's not going to contribute a huge amount to us staying upse9addick said:- cash in
- buy a LCB & LWB
- stay in the Championship2
