Spurs eye Albion defender

8:30am Thursday 5th April 2012 in Albion By Andy Naylor

Being watched: Hall Being watched: Hall

Albion defender Grant Hall is a shock target for Tottenham.

The North London giants are monitoring the progress of the 20-year-old centre half.

They have watched him in action several times for the development squad in recent matches.

Hall broke into the Seagulls' first team earlier this season.

He made his debut as a substitute against Southampton at The Amex in January and his full debut against Wrexham in the FA Cup five days later.

Spurs have previously been linked with a summer move for Albion's other 20-year-old central defender Lewis Dunk, who recently lost his first team spot to Adam El-Abd.

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Carter_Cooldancer says...
8:42am Thu 5 Apr 12

This isn't shock news for me. He was excellent against Southampton. He is young, has strength, pace, good balance, left footed, gets forward and can defend. I hope he stays but if we get a million for him, I'd be happy.

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bentnup says...
9:50am Thu 5 Apr 12

Ask for 5 mil get 3 plus add ons...good business.

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Zamora25 says...
9:57am Thu 5 Apr 12

Really? We have Greer, El-Abd, Dunk and Elphick who are all better so if the price is right I would accept as I don't think he is up to Championship standard.

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Rooky says...
9:59am Thu 5 Apr 12

He was good when he played for Lewes FC as a teenager but I don't suppose Lewes will benefit in any way if this move takes place.

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mark by the sea says...
10:04am Thu 5 Apr 12

Rooky wrote:
He was good when he played for Lewes FC as a teenager but I don't suppose Lewes will benefit in any way if this move takes place.
He was released by Hinsh at 16, only for hinsh to back track 18 months later when Lewes turned him into a outstanding prospect.. Qpr and Charlton were lining him up at the time, as for Zamora, Hall needs to go out on loan, as the lad we sold to Bournemouth, he then finds his level... we then either sell him or bring him back to play, If we sell Dunk then we will need a player to back up the defence.

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kumquat says...
10:09am Thu 5 Apr 12

Zamora25 wrote:
Really? We have Greer, El-Abd, Dunk and Elphick who are all better so if the price is right I would accept as I don't think he is up to Championship standard.
Have you seen him play apart from the Southampton game and/or the wrexham game? As Mark says, we need cover and he's clearly championship standard. That's why Gus let Cook go.

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seagulljoe says...
10:09am Thu 5 Apr 12

Zamora25 wrote:
Really? We have Greer, El-Abd, Dunk and Elphick who are all better so if the price is right I would accept as I don't think he is up to Championship standard.
Surprise news of the morning...Zamora25 wants to get rid of just one of the development squad!

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pte says...
10:54am Thu 5 Apr 12

Move over Harry Redknapp: Zamora25 for England!

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Hovite says...
11:00am Thu 5 Apr 12

It is great news for Hall to get recognised. I'd like to keep as many local lads as possible and that if we do sell, it would only be for the benefit of the player.

The thing is for Spurs, Rednapp might not be there after the summer so this might be scouting for the new manager.

It was hinted on MOTD that Brendan Rogers might be the target manager for Spurs, and because he has a connection with the Albion, he would have inside knowledge of Hall’s quality.

I would say that this could be a clue that Rogers has already been contracted to manage Spurs and this scouting has been instigated by him.

I may have put 2 and 2 together and come up with 3, but it’s Just a thought?

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Rhodes Seagull says...
11:09am Thu 5 Apr 12

Just a couple questions, (1) When we go up to the premiere league why would we want to sell now a player that obviously has what it takes to play there?
(2) If a club like Spurs is looking at him and maybe wish to buy him why are statesments being made here that he is only a Championship player Zamora25?

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LancingTony says...
11:11am Thu 5 Apr 12

Just remember how Spurs screwed us by avoiding paying any sell-on clause for BobbyZ by 'swopping' him for Defoe. Don't trust them and get all the money up front.

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Hovite says...
11:26am Thu 5 Apr 12

Rhodes Seagull, I doubt there would be any movement throughout our squad until we know for sure what league we will be in. It was just a scouting mission anyway.

Pure headline speculation at this stage but also a very nice encouraging pat on the back for Hall.

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thewhitehawker says...
11:42am Thu 5 Apr 12

this is gossip and nothing more , the argus could not find anything else to write about and the public took the bait as usual !

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Yogi says...
12:17pm Thu 5 Apr 12

As I know one of their scouts, can tell you that Swansea have been looking at some our players this season so if Rogers goes there he will already be aware of Dunk n Hall!!

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CAKEBEARD says...
12:21pm Thu 5 Apr 12

Such a big squad of decent players now I forgot about him...talking of forgotten players...Gus can you please loan out Ryan Harley back to Exeter as they need him and he needs some match practise! I still think he is class...just needs to up his work rate and change his attitude a bit.

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GosportGull says...
1:02pm Thu 5 Apr 12

That is a shock because he was very average against Whitehawk on Tues night and gave away the first goal. But that said he has good physique and i think he might be a very good centre half with some more 1st team action. I think the one player that will be on some big clubs shopping lists will be JFC , he wont stay around in the development squad if he can get Championship first team action elsewhere.... Gus needs to be aware of that ....

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Iheartquestionmark says...
1:59pm Thu 5 Apr 12

GosportGull wrote:
That is a shock because he was very average against Whitehawk on Tues night and gave away the first goal. But that said he has good physique and i think he might be a very good centre half with some more 1st team action. I think the one player that will be on some big clubs shopping lists will be JFC , he wont stay around in the development squad if he can get Championship first team action elsewhere.... Gus needs to be aware of that ....
NOOOO NOT JFC!!!!!!!! He's so... dreamy...

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IKnowNowt says...
5:44pm Thu 5 Apr 12

Why do we seem to produce so many useful centre half's?

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tinker000 says...
5:57pm Thu 5 Apr 12

The fans could see this ,better than Ab Dab,Dunk etc distribution is better as well than the two mentioned .
Club better get a grip unless big bucks are mentioned would prefer to see Dunk go.

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keswick says...
6:52pm Thu 5 Apr 12

LancingTony wrote:
Just remember how Spurs screwed us by avoiding paying any sell-on clause for BobbyZ by 'swopping' him for Defoe. Don't trust them and get all the money up front.
Regardless of who it is who moves on from the Albion I do not believe that TB would allow this to happen.

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Seagull John says...
8:38pm Thu 5 Apr 12

CAKEBEARD wrote:
Such a big squad of decent players now I forgot about him...talking of forgotten players...Gus can you please loan out Ryan Harley back to Exeter as they need him and he needs some match practise! I still think he is class...just needs to up his work rate and change his attitude a bit.
Better still, give him back to Exeter. Cut our losses and move on.

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