Yes, about that fee. Where exactly did it come from? Certainly not the selling club, as we never set fees for players. The reality is he’ll go to the highest bidder that the player wants to join. It could be Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal or Chelsea realistically.
The player’s agent (his Dad, Carlos Mac Allister) and buying clubs will be talking between now the summer, then the agent will come to Brighton and say “Alexis would accept moves to X or Y, and terms in principal have been agreed”.
This is exactly what happened with Cucurella last summer; Manchester City tapped him up all summer through his agent, and then made an offer to Brighton for £35m, assuming we’d accept. Brighton rejected the offer and the **** hit the fan. Then Chelsea paid £63m and Tony Bloom said “deal”.
He will go to the highest bidder, simple as that. Bloom and Barber are absolute masters of maximising transfer fees by simply saying “no”.