Simon Adingra

And there's a little bit of a pattern emerging.

You know, Simon Adingra didn't work out.

You know, we've got Malick Fofana.

It's a bit early to judge him.

He's had a couple of good moments, but nothing really of note.

Now you've got Fofana, Adingra, do you know what I mean? So there's a lot of players, wingers coming in, but they all seem to be failing.

Is that just possibly that they're not adapting to the, they're not really suited to the system?

Well, I'm not really sure how to respond, but what I would say is what I've seen from my experience is that they were wet.

It wasn't just Mitoma, it was pretty much every big name.

So we're fielding the likes of Simon Adingra on the right wing, who was traditionally a left winger.

He was only 20 years old, and you know about Adingra a little bit as well.

Um, but he was nowhere near ready at all.

I don't know if Brighton sold him.

Adingra.

Adie, Simon Adingra.

Adingra, Simon Adingra.

Those guys come into those kind of teams with experience-

I, I think there's an academy they come out from, a popular academy

He's obviously one of Reggie's favourites, right? First in the team pretty much.

And I don't think our recruitment is kind of, as naive as they were before they know some of the players that we're bringing into the club are demonstrating quality within the Premier League roofs basically if we start last season let's go back good 15 months now only Xhaka and Adingra had played in the Premier League That was it.

Everybody's now got a full season under the belt.

They've proven where they could be.

What's perhaps even more impressive is that the club continue to improve on and off the pitch, despite the sales of their best players.

Since Herzler took over in 2024, Brighton have sold the likes of Carlos Baleba, Jan-Paul van Hecke, Danny Welbeck, João Pedro, Simon Adingra, Purvis Estupanian, Valentine Barco, Julio Enciso, Denis Undov, Billy Gilmore, and more.

Prior to his tenure, Moises Caicedo, Mark Cucurella, Yves Bissouma, Leandro Trossard, and Alexis McAllister are just five other big names who were allowed to leave and who have flourished elsewhere.

In some respects, then, Brighton could be classed as a selling club, but unlike back in the 90s when the cashing in on their stadium was imperative, the club are now in a position whereby they only need to sell their crown jewels if it makes absolute business sense.

At the likely level, we have Jan Diamante.

And then at the possible level, Simon Adingra.

We have four candidates at the possible level here.

Simon Adingra and Gwiagon Parfait but I will just pause and say that all four of those candidates were selected so definite candidate Basu Manitoure, Jan Diamante the likely candidate and the first two possible candidates Simon Adingra and Parfait Gwiagon a lot of selections for just one position there we're going to see that even though the positions up till now have been quite stable but it's very unstable here and going forward in other words a lot of road there.

Okay well we have two other possible candidates who did not get selected.

The first one is Marshall Godo and then Wilfred Zaha.

But he actually is out of Africa, but played not for an Ivory Coast youth team, but the Right to Dream Academy in Ghana.

So that's kind of interesting.