Very surprised that Brighton are open to a permanent deal for him. Looked absolutely amazing when I saw him play
A few Blackpool fans on his Instagram saying he will start for Brighton in the next year or two. Think he'd be some signing but in Jones and Chapple we trust.
He played a big part in them coming back from 2-0 down at Blackpool. Kanu couldn't deal with him after Campbell went off and made a number of driving runs forward. I was impressed with him on the day.
Certainly up there with the best full backs I’ve seen in a tangerine shirt. He is comfortably championship standard with the potential to go further.
I think he could be a good midfielder, he’s fast, strong and can run with ball
The best of the loanees by a mile. Would love to sign him, and you never know, promotion and SB staying may be enough to make it happen. But probably unrealistic as he is already worth maybe £10M+, given his club, age, performance level and pedigree. He reminds me of how we relied on Seamus Coleman in our promotion winning season under Holloway, and could only dream of the prospect of having him permanently.
Fantastic player and character. Will be gutted when he returns back. Been extremely consistent and rock solid mostly.
Offiah had a great battle with TC at the Valley. There was a lot of chat between them - maybe they know each other from youth football but both seemed to relish the challenge. At one point Offiah was jockeying TC and saying to him ' go on, get past me, go for it..you got no chance.' He would certainly add something to the squad so I'd be happy with this one.
Offiah - If we take him on loan then we would need to guarantee appearances and Jones aint to keen on loans - however depends what our transfer budget is - we might need to change strategy on transfers in this division - exciting to see how this one develops... thanks Rich our transfer guru
If true (and no reason to doubt RC thus far) it hopefully helps alleviate some of the concerns about budget and commitment from the ownership as this wouldn't be a cheap deal to do.
I think the only concern would be how similar he is to Ramsay. In our system last season Offiah would probably slot into his role, but in that away game there were definitely signs he could be used in that wing back role but would definitely be a different profile to Small
Very surprised that Brighton are open to a permanent deal for him. Looked absolutely amazing when I saw him play
If he's as promising as he seems to be (and he's already played in the PL for Brighton) then surely the sensible thing for Brighton to do is to just extend his contract and loan him again.
If they're open to him leaving then clearly Brighton don't rate him anywhere near as highly as the Blackpool fans.
I think the only concern would be how similar he is to Ramsay. In our system last season Offiah would probably slot into his role, but in that away game there were definitely signs he could be used in that wing back role but would definitely be a different profile to Small
We need depth. Ramsay has an injury spell in him. It’s a positive if he is similar. Can slot in.
I think the only concern would be how similar he is to Ramsay. In our system last season Offiah would probably slot into his role, but in that away game there were definitely signs he could be used in that wing back role but would definitely be a different profile to Small
We need depth. Ramsay has an injury spell in him. It’s a positive if he is similar. Can slot in.
Unless we’re selling Ramsay! But yes you are right we need 2 good players for each position. I think Offiah would be one of our best players, as Ramsay is already, so hopefully it works when they both play on the right together rather than it having to be one or the other
Very surprised that Brighton are open to a permanent deal for him. Looked absolutely amazing when I saw him play
If he's as promising as he seems to be (and he's already played in the PL for Brighton) then surely the sensible thing for Brighton to do is to just extend his contract and loan him again.
If they're open to a permanent deal then either Brighton don't rate him anywhere near as highly as the Blackpool fans, or they'll only sell him if there's a buy back fee clause, or a decent sell on fee % in the deal.
Unless it's a similar situation to Coventry at West Ham - can't find a way into the first team but with plenty of potential later on. So the fee is not necessarily enormous but there's devil in the details of sell-ons etc.
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Second half at Blackpool away we couldn’t deal with him bringing the ball up the right hand side to start attacks
Certainly up there with the best full backs I’ve seen in a tangerine shirt. He is comfortably championship standard with the potential to go further.
I think he could be a good midfielder, he’s fast, strong and can run with ball
He reminds me of how we relied on Seamus Coleman in our promotion winning season under Holloway, and could only dream of the prospect of having him permanently.
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Too much for us I’d say, so realistically it would have to be a loan.😕
I'd be really pleased if we got Offiah, looks a real prospect and also has a good name for puns.
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If they're open to him leaving then clearly Brighton don't rate him anywhere near as highly as the Blackpool fans.