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Micah Mbick - called up to the England U20s (p7)

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  • Red_Chester
    Red_Chester Posts: 762
    Expect Brighton scouts at Colchester’s games..
  • Addicksi
    Addicksi Posts: 42
    Let's bring him back and see what he's got now. If he's on a massive trajectory in his development it needs to be with us. 
  • Red_Chester
    Red_Chester Posts: 762
    Addicksi said:
    Let's bring him back and see what he's got now. If he's on a massive trajectory in his development it needs to be with us. 
    Agree but depends when we can recall him. If clubs like Brighton are now watching him I’m sure there’s others. Only concern is if the recall isn’t until Jan and prem clubs put in an offer he might not be recalled to play for us. 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,624
    Red_Chester said:
    Addicksi said:
    Let's bring him back and see what he's got now. If he's on a massive trajectory in his development it needs to be with us. 
    Agree but depends when we can recall him. If clubs like Brighton are now watching him I’m sure there’s others. Only concern is if the recall isn’t until Jan and prem clubs put in an offer he might not be recalled to play for us. 
    What size offer would that take though? I don’t see us selling young players for a couple of million like we would have done under previous ownerships.
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,281
    Kid looks a bit special... absolutely bully's defenders
  • Red_Chester
    Red_Chester Posts: 762
    Scoham said:
    Red_Chester said:
    Addicksi said:
    Let's bring him back and see what he's got now. If he's on a massive trajectory in his development it needs to be with us. 
    Agree but depends when we can recall him. If clubs like Brighton are now watching him I’m sure there’s others. Only concern is if the recall isn’t until Jan and prem clubs put in an offer he might not be recalled to play for us. 
    What size offer would that take though? I don’t see us selling young players for a couple of million like we would have done under previous ownerships.
    Unfortunately anywhere from 5 million I think we accept with a sell on clause (don’t agree with it). I’m sure I’ll hear more at Christmas how close Brighton are to putting in an offer but apparently they’re watching him 
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,257
    Brighton are incredibly thin up top in terms of options, Evan Ferguson hasn't fulfilled his promise and is out on loan at Roma , think one of their other strikers got injured midweek and is out long term and Welbeck won't go on forever.

    Can completely understand why they'd be watching Mbick as a long term option. 
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,544
    MarcusH26 said:
    Brighton are incredibly thin up top in terms of options, Evan Ferguson hasn't fulfilled his promise and is out on loan at Roma , think one of their other strikers got injured midweek and is out long term and Welbeck won't go on forever.

    Can completely understand why they'd be watching Mbick as a long term option. 
    Absolutely. He looks to have put his less than impressive Wembley cameo firmly behind him. That in itself shows strength of character. Plus any scout would see that he's displaying  more than enough to suggest he could train on to be something rather decent. I hope he stays and we get to see how pans out it ourselves. 
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,642
    Given our own striker issues plus how ludicrously expensive it is to buy proven goalscorers, I’d personally be extremely disappointed if we sold MBick to the PL before he’s had a real chance in our own squad - even at £5M-£10M.

    Guess it’s bird in the hand v bird in the bush territory for the club if they receive a decent offer - but given we’re only one step away from the PL ourselves, I’d flip the logic there that Micah is Charlton’s bird in the hand in terms of future firepower and it’s every bit as big a gamble for us to try and buy-in goals from elsewhere. 

    Then again some of it will of course depend on what the player wants. You’d hope there’s a bit of loyalty to the club that brought him up and to Jones who brought him on at Wembley. 

    If the PL interest is that serious, then let’s at least get him back for the second half of the season and take a closer look ourselves, rather than snatch at a January pay day. 
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,531
    edited December 6
    Accepting £5 million would be such a poor decision. Exciting youngsters go for a lot more than that in this league. All he needs is one good season in the Champ and he'd be going for big money. 

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  • jose
    jose Posts: 811
    He won’t have as much time in the prem and given his current propensity for slightly extended impressive close control, he will be tackled sooner and with more skill and nous from better defenders.
    Micha is 18.
    Eighteen with several more years of development due to happen.
    Moving to Brighton (good club though they are) for a scant five million would in my opinion be a mistake for them us and Micha football wise, even if the money is tempting.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 12,576
    jose said:
    He won’t have as much time in the prem and given his current propensity for slightly extended impressive close control, he will be tackled sooner and with more skill and nous from better defenders.
    Micha is 18.
    Eighteen with several more years of development due to happen.
    Moving to Brighton (good club though they are) for a scant five million would in my opinion be a mistake for them us and Micha football wise, even if the money is tempting.
    Micah wouldn’t be close to their first team and would most likely be loaned back to Colchester anyway. He’d then have greater loan options next season. It could be the right move for his career but hopeful we’d need a decent wedge 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,624
    Red_Chester said:
    Scoham said:
    Red_Chester said:
    Addicksi said:
    Let's bring him back and see what he's got now. If he's on a massive trajectory in his development it needs to be with us. 
    Agree but depends when we can recall him. If clubs like Brighton are now watching him I’m sure there’s others. Only concern is if the recall isn’t until Jan and prem clubs put in an offer he might not be recalled to play for us. 
    What size offer would that take though? I don’t see us selling young players for a couple of million like we would have done under previous ownerships.
    Unfortunately anywhere from 5 million I think we accept with a sell on clause (don’t agree with it). I’m sure I’ll hear more at Christmas how close Brighton are to putting in an offer but apparently they’re watching him 
    If Brighton think he's done enough to be worth paying £5m for then maybe we should give him a chance in our first team. A teenage striker impressing at this level could be worth £10-20m.

    He's under contract until 2028 plus a further 1 year club option, so we're under no pressure to sell from that perspective.

    Every PL club should be monitoring teenagers playing well in the EFL, I don't think it necessarily means we'll be getting offers in that range in January.
  • Crispywood
    Crispywood Posts: 818
    Brighton have a history of developing players and turning massive profit on for them. Wouldn’t look to sell Mbick but if they offer a 20% sell on in the future and a big fee you would have to at least consider it, wouldn’t be a better club than Brighton to sell to 

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