Micah Mbick - 20/1/2026 The Athletic reporting Brighton have had 2 bids for him rejected (p12)

Shame he is on his way, really would have liked to see him have a go and then get some big bucks for him. Oh well, thanks for the play off final Micah.

fenaddick said:

Scoham said:

WSS said:

I don't think I've seen enough of him to be gutted. But if it funds us staying up and getting ahead for next year we have to take it.

To do progression properly we have to do this type of stuff for a few years. Just the way it is at the moment.

We'd have do this even in the PL, but the question is are we selling too early and too cheaply (as we did with Konsa, Shelvey etc) or are Brighton overvaluing him? (e.g. Chelsea with Burstow).

I guess the argument is we'll have Leaburn in the target man role, perhaps competing with Dykes or a similarly experienced player, so Mbick may struggle to get game time here to be worth even more.

Dykes only here until the summer though. I really thought part of that was so that Mbick could compete for a spot next season

If we stay up, I'm sure Dykes will extend his contract. I can't see Mbick getting many starts ahead of Dykes and Leaburn next season. He's only 19, which is VERY young for that position. There aren't many 19 year strikers playing in the Championship.

If we were in L1, then Mbick would get a lot more minutes.

Laddick01 said:

Could also flop and not make the step up. 5 million is hard to turn down for a player that hasn’t played above League 2.

Yep, this is how I see it. Take the money and wish him well

Diebythesword said:

As I said in the rumours thread, if it’s a decent chunk of money and the lookman transfer goes through and with the planned outside investment we should have a decent war chest for next season IF we stay up - and mbick was never going to be part of this season for us. 

Mbick has clear potential but ultimately never had a massive impact on us. It’s a shame as I liked the “we don’t have to sell” attitude, but ultimately if the player wants to move the club just has to try and get the best price it can. 

Maybe, or the outside investment plus the M'bick money helps get them some of their investment back and mitigates a chunk of next seasons losses.
I still think back to that brochure that fans saw before the takeover and so much of it has been true so far.
Let's see how the summer goes.  I am sure it is just a whole run of shite owners that has me jaded.
Interestingly however I cannot think of a single youth product that TS sold (not that I miss him to be clear!).

Genuine question.Has Jones ever taken an attacking type and turned him into a huge money export??
Knowing his style I would say very doubtful.
He's had Leaburn and Campbell for a couple of years now and nobody's really queuing up for them.
Lutons biggest sale in that department in recent times was John Hartson.
Bearing in mind he's here for 5 years, I'd suggest Mbicks best chance of development and in turn, our best chance of a payout might well be away from the Valley

Laddick01 said:

ElliotCAFC said:

Laddick01 said:

Could also flop and not make the step up. 5 million is hard to turn down for a player that hasn’t played above League 2.

5 million is nothing in today's game. Ezri Konsa went to Villa for £12m after one season in the Championship, Lookman for a similar fee in League One, Romain Esse goes to Palace for £12m with 6 Championship goals in 3 seasons. Countless other examples. 

He's a talented player and Brighton wouldn't be pushing so hard if he wasn't. Keep him and see what he can do with us next season.

Whilst I agree, it’s also risky from our side. 

Unfortunately I think 5 million with a 25/30% sell on just makes too much sense. Say he goes for 15 million in a few years, we’ve still made near 10 million in this deal that way. 

The owners have invested well so far. I can’t begrudge them selling at that price.

Yeah I know what you mean, the owners have been brilliant so far and I wouldn't begrudge them getting some ROI, I just think we should wait a little bit and see how he goes next season.

Say he isn't ready for the Championship and goes on loan to League One, I back him to do okay, and that 5 million is still there (if not more). 

This money does little to the overall squad budget, as the owners were probably having to stump up their own money until this deal comes into the frame. It'll just mean that the club debt is less. Annoying, but we have always been a selling club and will be for a lot longer. He's not even in our team so not worth getting too pissed about it. If we were top 6 in the table and he'd scored 10+ for us this season I'd be gutted. 

I have no issue with Brighton and Hove Albion per se, however for this deal I say squeeze the Premiership rich boys for every penny we can get.
Surely about £18million, with a 25% sell on minimum?
Or he stays with us.

the 'he'll be loaned back (to Colchester) for the rest of the season' mention within that rumor is odd... what benefit is that to us...!

cfgs said:

Should stipulate he can't be loaned to The Championship in the next two seasons, next season he will probably be in League 1 but the season after he probably won't.

Could stipulate if he is loaned at the same level as us, it has to be to us.

Will be a pity if we lose Micah so early in his career but I wouldn’t mind us to have another go for Samson Tovide to come in to replace him. He looks a prospect too. 

If it’s 5m plus a decent sell on then it’s a no brainer for me. Brighton are buying potential but that’s it, potential. Absolutely no guarantee he’ll fulfil that. If he does and they sell him on to Chelsea for 80m then we’d have still done well out of it. Could be though they sell him in four years time to Barnsley for 400,000. Either way the club are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. 

Rufus is a dogs name said:

the 'he'll be loaned back (to Colchester) for the rest of the season' mention within that rumor is odd... what benefit is that to us...!

It was posted by a Colchester fan account. To them there’s no difference whether his parent club is Charlton or Brighton.

It is a balancing act sell now or wait and hope he gets better and can do it a Championship level. He might do or might not. I've only seen him in the play off final and didn't think much of that display but he is very young.

The player we sold to Chelsea who scored a few goals a few years back, no one is gutted we've sold him looking back 

Rufus is a dogs name said:

the 'he'll be loaned back (to Colchester) for the rest of the season' mention within that rumor is odd... what benefit is that to us...!

He can only play for 2 clubs in a season (us and Colchester) so if we're not going to play him, then why wouldn't Brighton just loan him back to Colchester?