Hmmmm so a club with possibly the best recruitment are potentially selling Newcastle Pedro for 60 million and buying this player for 40 million. Interesting... Let's hope we aren't getting schooled.
I still want Pedro, but Brighton are so good at recruiting. They're the polar opposite in their approach.
Also they are prepared to throw their new signings in and give them a chance. With Howe it would be 6 - 12 months of bedding into squad training & coaching before they get a look in.
He only played hall via absolute necessity in the end vs West Ham when his previous subs got injured. We won the game 4-3 and Hall got player of the month for the last month of that season. History was rewritten of course that he'd waited for the right time.