Fair play to Brighton

[Moodybluebird]

Selling 2 players - Ben White to Arsenal last season and now Cucurella to Chelsea for a whopping total of £110m is not to be sniffed at.

I like the way they have evolved as a club in recent times. Having a great coach helps as does having an excellent recruitment team. I'd like to think we could do something similar in the future but I can't see it happening with the current set-up.

[The Lone Gunman]

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They also made something like a £15 million profit on Yves Bissouma when he signed for Spurs recently.

You're right, Brighton appear to have been a really well-run club for some time. This will be their sixth season in the top flight following promotion in 2017. They're showing what can be done.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Fair play.
They finished 1 place and 2 points ahead of us in 2018/19. How things could have been different for both clubs.

[Bobby Dandruff]

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Selling 2 players - Ben White to Arsenal last season and now Cucurella to Chelsea for a whopping total of £110m is not to be sniffed at.

I like the way they have evolved as a club in recent times. Having a great coach helps as does having an excellent recruitment team. I'd like to think we could do something similar in the future but I can't see it happening with the current set-up.

I liked that they rejected City's offers of £30m+ for Cucurella and Chelsea ended up paying twice that (if you believe the media anyway), after he has had one good season in the Premier League.

Now THAT is how you negotiate.

[Moodybluebird]

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Fair play.
They finished 1 place and 2 points ahead of us in 2018/19. How things could have been different for both clubs.

Hard to say it but the right club survived in 2018/19. They obviously had plans in place to progress as a club whereas we most certainly didn't.

[Ninja]

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Clearly they have a very good recruitment strategy. We should be pinpointing 3 or 4 prospects each year for a low fee as a potential future investment.
You're not always going to get it bang on, but as they've shown, it only takes the odd one here and there to strike gold and set you up nicely.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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It's good to see them pulling up a few trees in the greedy league

I think their fans deserve it , all those years at Gillingham then the withdean .

We wouldn't have got through that , the club would have folded .

[dml1954]

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Clearly they have a very good recruitment strategy. We should be pinpointing 3 or 4 prospects each year for a low fee as a potential future investment.
You're not always going to get it bang on, but as they've shown, it only takes the odd one here and there to strike gold and set you up nicely.

Isn't that what we are doing now ? I think people need to stop beating the club over the head with things that happened five, ten years ago.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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It's good to see them pulling up a few trees in the greedy league

I think their fans deserve it , all those years at Gillingham then the withdean .

We wouldn't have got through that , the club would have folded .

You seem to have a generally low opinion of City fans.
How can you say for sure that we wouldn't have responded in the same way?

[Vindec]

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If Saturday was anything to go by I think our manager and recruitment staff have done a good job by bottom fishing in the market. WE seem to have a much better team than last season at a fraction of the cost (if WOL is anything to go by) in terms of wages.

[Ninja]

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Isn't that what we are doing now ? I think people need to stop beating the club over the head with things that happened five, ten years ago.

Who's doing that? Not me, that's for sure!

The only potential investment we've made recently is Etete. Let's be brutally honest here, most of our academy prospects usually fall short. We should be buying in 3 or 4 Etete's each year.

[Moodybluebird]

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Isn't that what we are doing now ? I think people need to stop beating the club over the head with things that happened five, ten years ago.

Don't think you're being fair there. We are just praising a club who has got it right and wishing we could follow in their footsteps. Nothing wrong with that. However, yes we do appear to have changed our strategy, which is refreshing to see.

[splott parker]

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I liked that they rejected City's offers of £30m+ for Cucurella and Chelsea ended up paying twice that (if you believe the media anyway), after he has had one good season in the Premier League.

Now THAT is how you negotiate.

We bid £30 million+ for Cucurella

[Moodybluebird]

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We bid £30 million+ for Cucurella

£20million of that was just for his hair.

[jon1959]

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Isn't that what we are doing now ?

It looks that way.