These ten players were signed for a combined £108.6m in the summer but could be moved on at the first opportunity this January. Chelsea must be stopped.
As is the case with most Brighton signings until they slowly break into the first team and guarantee the Seagulls a considerable profit on their initial outlay, few could name the £9.5m Paraguay international forward they purchased in the summer. The club will hope that Julio Enciso follows the same path from unknown to Todd Boehly obsession as Moises Caicedo, Alexis MacAllister and Kaoru Mitoma.
It started so well – with a stunning assist on his debut in an August draw with Leeds – but Mara is struggling to sustain himself on a drip-feed of minutes. The Frenchman has started three league games and not played more than an hour each time, while his four goals in a reserve thrashing of Middlesbrough’s under-21s was rewarded with consecutive senior games as an unused substitute.
It rings true when you consider Downes has only started eight games for West Ham across the Premier League, Europa Conference and Carabao Cup, been the club’s best player in most if not all of those matches, and that he thrives in the sort of possession-based system Moyes has previously suggested he wishes to pivot towards, yet he continues to be unfathomably overlooked. Moyes persists with the struggling Tomas Soucek while handing Downes four substitute minutes in the FA Cup against Brentford.
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