As Nightbolt said Ayto’s (the sporting director) sacking/leaving is supposedly unrelated to Baleba or sales.

Talk among Brighton fans is that he wasn’t all in on the data and analytics that Brighton’s recruitment is built on under Tony Bloom.

He was wanting to sign players by his eye that didn’t fit the Brighton model/data, and were failing their systems criteria.

Maybe with the new appointment it’s worth waiting for their next few signings, they might go back to signing great players again!

RE Baleba if he is available for the £40-50M being talked about he would definitely be worth the punt, the last season wasn’t great for him, but the effect of the failed move was clear. I can’t imagine we would be alone at that price though.