Would love to see Balo and/or Patino on loan at this club next season. Especially if they crash the top six.
20 million for Potter and then get RDZ for free.
That has to be the best business ever!
What a blessing in disguise.
This team and the incisive way we play is miles better under RDZ.
Brighton fans seem happy. Guess they got tired of playing Potter ball where passing is everything
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Theyāre not exactly big spenders but they sold Cuccurella, Bissouma, White and Burn in recent seasons and are playing with Welbeck as their main striker yet they are above Chelsea and Liverpool.
I havenāt been watching too much of Brighton before (with Potter)ā¦ Obviously I was always reading about how good they play etc etcā¦ But they never truly impressed me whenever Iāve watched them and I thought they were quite boring tbh.
After seeing a couple of games with De Zerbi itās more than obvious this team way more fluid, creates chances much easier, simply plays better attacking football. I havenāt watched enough to comment on defence, but they donāt look too bad there either.
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If it wasnāt for Arteta doing what Artetaās doing, de Zerbi may have to go down as an early contender for manager of the season.
This, all without arguably his best player Trossard. (What a tosser Trossard is btw)
Eddie Howe is up there, too.
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Gotta say theyāre a brilliantly run club with some of the best talent scouting and transfer business in world football right now. Massive respect to their club.
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Damn, and he only just retired due to a heart condition too. Hope he is ok
Lots of similar takes online and people crying.
I donāt see people complaining when Brighton āstealsā away South American talent for cheap by offering the players and agents that sweet PL money and platform.
Itās the food chain, just like it works in your favour at times it can work the other way around too.
Who the fuck are the scouts at this club ?
This is a fair point.
The PL requires more equity and competitive parity. Only way youāll ever get to compete is through a, being a historically big club, or cash rich billionaire or hit on a rare one off.
BHA does things the absolutely right way as a club, superior scouting and transfers combined with top level coaching. Is the most they can ever hope for EL football?
Sometimes you have to actually wonder what is the point for those of us that follow one of the 85 other clubs? If youāre run well and climb the leagues youāll just get ripped up
Why shouldnāt lesser historical clubs have to earn it? The model is there for a lesser club, Brighton are a good example of it and what they need to keep doing is scouting well and churning out top players to get picked off.
Eventually they have enough money to either say no or buy top players themselves. Canāt just waltz your way to the top, money isnāt the only issue anyway.
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Itās a bit of a false narrative that a club like BHA can ever āearnā at spot within the top 6 through traditional means in the current climate, just purely on a financial basis they canāt compete with historically big clubs that obtain ton more revenue from branding. Feel very much like a glass ceiling for anything other traditional big clubs and oil clubs.
Even if they do as your say consistently well whereās the evidence it can ever be sustainable? The big clubs are essentially playing a different game to the rest in that they can afford to hoard talent, get lesser clubs to do their scouting for them and absorb the cost of flops without it affecting their bottom line. Thatās a problem, I donāt think itās a stretch to say BHA would be top 4 contenders if they had retained all their talent over the last 3 seasons
Why do we just accept the top of the PL is practically a closed shop with one plucky teams getting close every other year? Itās a nightmare scenario in which the football Pyramid basically exists to serve the top 6, rest of the PL is moving optics and feeders for the big clubs
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Donāt remember anyone crying when Liverpool signed Jota, City signed Grealish or Spurs signed Bissouma.
And I love the Brighton fans on Twitter saying he should show his appreciation for the club and stay through the summer and then get a move. One wrong tackle, he does his ACL, then the move wonāt be there for him and those same fans will be annoyed that heās out injured.
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Itās hardly a revelation that if youāre a club like Brighton a bigger club will pick off your stars. Literally how itās worked since the game begun pretty much.
Whatās the point of being a Brighton fan? This is a club that was almost extinct, sold their stadium and produced the most ridiculous comeback ever (after a points deduction too) to retain their football league status on the last day of the season.
They have gone from that to being in the mix for European football in 25 years. Thatās the fuckin point!
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Tbf for like 10 years we were the scrappy club having our best players picked off by Man United, City and Barcelona.
Our time has finally come.
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Our fans were literally the worst when we were losing players to City, United, Barca etc in the past.
Iām glad those times are over now.
The approach big clubs take to Brighton is really no different to the approach Brighton take to smaller continental clubs when theyāre picking their players off.
Thereās a hierarchy and Brighton sit somewhere very comfortably in that hierarchy when theyāve been able to use diligent scouting and transfer business to assemble a squad capable of top 10 football in the biggest, most watched and richest league in the world. I think thatās a very good position to be in and theyāre able to maintain that position as a direct result of their model which sells players at considerably higher prices than they purchased them for.
As far as Iām concerned there should be no complaints from a club that spent a few million Euros on a talented player and then manage to secure a profit of circa Ā£60-70m when selling him.
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I do agree, whatās the point of being a football club if you just want to sell players.
They have the power here and thereās no point pretending they donāt. Thereās no football reason to sell Caceido this week, and thereās no need for the money either, so Iād lose a bit of respect for Brighton if they sell him and sacrifice their European chances for a little more money.
Over the past few years smaller clubs in England have got way more powerful. Thereās a reason Brighton sell players for Ā£50-60m and lower Spanish and Italian clubs are still selling them for Ā£20m.
PL clubs arenāt desperate for any cash they can get to survive anymore. They can demand these ridiculous prices from other English clubs.
Its not a small amount though. 70m is close to 20% of what we make in revenue a year. Itās probably close to half of what Brighton make.
Thereās the argument that they get more offers in the summer but 70m is a massive sum for one ball-kicking human.