Three weeks ago, Brighton seemed to be leading the race for Ajax forward Mohammed Kudus.
We all know how that worked out with David Moyes and West Ham snapping up the talented Ghana international on Sunday, ironically after beating Brighton in the Premier League a day earlier.
BBC Radio Sussex got the inside track on Kudus from Ghanaian journalist Rahman Osman on their Albion Unlimited podcast earlier this month: "He has played as a central midfielder, an attacking midfielder and then last season he was played as a forward or a false nine and performed really well.