Quote Originally Posted by thehumblegringo View Post
I don't understand comments like this. It's like saying Chelsea don't spend much money cos they didn't when Ken Bates was in charge.

They have an owning who clearly has been good for Brighton. (Remember they were playing at that Hockey stadium)

He will have made mistakes in the learning process but his ideas are obviously evolving and he has now employed Dan Ashworth who has done some really impressive things in the England set up.

He then controversially (but in my opinion wisely) replaced Hughton with Graham Potter who was responsible for restoring Swansea's identity as well as doing some superb work in Ostersunds in recent years.

What I posted wasn't a full break down of Brighton's spending over the last 10 years but that they are developing structures within the club which will give them and enhanced chance of realising their goals while we have a manager who says "my butty phoned me from France and he's only ever recommended one player to me and he was good, so I just had a hunch this one was right. Sometimes you've gotta go with your instincts Sharon reckons"!
You can't separate how good something looks and how much it costs. I would prefer if we opted for a similar model but Brighton have accrued the second most debt in premier League achieving this system and infrastructure. You make it sound like we could just adopt it overnight and that it incurs no additional cost.