João Pedro

[duo]

I think clubs like Brighton have no other choice but to operate like that - at least they haven't tried selling hotels to generate cash 

[KingArthur]

Ayari has looked decent the few times I have seen him

[Theregulars]

I’d like to think that players who go there realise they’ll never make a meaningful connection with a properly obsessed fanbase who will worship them as heroes, and want out accordingly after establishing themselves. There’s no excitement for football in that area.

[Theregulars]

34 minutes ago, Nucasol said:

The plucky Brighton story isn’t quite the glorious underdog tale the media loves to make out. Between Bloom taking over the club and the end of the 2020/21 season, Brighton spent £259m on players and sold £40m as they went from League 1 to the Premier League. Bloom also weighed them in with just under £500m of interest free loans to build the AMEX and fund the club.

 

Since 2021/22 they’ve had the reputation of being canny buyers and sellers - fine, but they’ve still signed £410m of players and sold £337m, a net deficit of £72m. Add that to the £218m deficit from the prior decade, the majority spent in lower leagues.

 

The fact is Bloom has done a good job to create an established club with good balance sheet value. However, let’s not make out it’s all been through canny trading and youth team products. That’s why it rankles when the capitalist shithouse bleats on about FFP and playing by the rules whilst backing his paymasters to pull the ladder up on other clubs. The private equity wanker he is.

So, so spot on. Completely accurate. The hipster Billy Bean narrative is so inaccurate.

[Toon No9]

19 minutes ago, KingArthur said:

Ayari has looked decent the few times I have seen him

Also a good friend with Isak.

Played together at AIK in Sweden.

[Checko]

47 minutes ago, Theregulars said:

So, so spot on. Completely accurate. The hipster Billy Bean narrative is so inaccurate.

Yeah I was looking to see who Brighton had sold over the years recently and apart from rinsing Chelsea a few times they haven't make that many crazy big sales. White, Cucurella and Caceideo are the three really big ones. These are all the ones over 20 million euros [I included Dan Burn for context as it looks like when we bought him he was their second biggest sale ever!]

 

24/45

 

Undev - 26.7

23/24

 

Caceido 116

Mac Allister 42

Sanchez 23 

 

22/23

 

Cucurella 65.3

Bissouma 29.2

Trossard  24

 

21/22

 

Ben White 58.5

*Dan Burn - 15 - BDB seems to have been their second biggest sale in history at that point.

[duo]

Not sure where all this hate for Brighton is coming from - for a tiny club on the South Coast they've done well to compete.

[Yorkie]

Just now, duo said:

Not sure where all this hate for Brighton is coming from - for a tiny club on the South Coast they've done well to compete.

 

Well they keep fucking beating us for one.

[SUPERTOON]

13 minutes ago, duo said:

Not sure where all this hate for Brighton is coming from - for a tiny club on the South Coast they've done well to compete.

They suck up to the big 6. 

[Nucasol]

14 minutes ago, duo said:

Not sure where all this hate for Brighton is coming from - for a tiny club on the South Coast they've done well to compete.

[gbandit]

3 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

They suck up to the big 6. 

In fairness, they’ve sold very well and not really been ripped off by people buying from them. The sad reality of them as a club is they won’t ever be able to compete consistently as a European side in the league 

[duo]

20 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

Well they keep fucking beating us for one.

well there is that  I have no issue with how they operate as they are doing what they need to do to survive.  As opposed to Chelsea who are literally making a mockery of the league and showing the world how corrupt it is.

[duo]

12 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

They suck up to the big 6. 

I would like to think they've ripped them off - I mean Chelsea way overpaid for Caceido and Cucurella

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by duo

[Groundhog63]

7 hours ago, JT24 said:

O’Riley wants to leave already? What’s gone on there?

 

 

 

 

7 hours ago, Groundhog63 said:

Oh, realy?

 

Spoiler

No, O'Riley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disappointed, lads