Wilts
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£2m quid. Would be a good deal for Brighton.
What can you do with it?
Well, wages of £4k a week (probably about right for top-end Div 2 players)... = £156k per year salary. 3 year contracts = about £450k. That's if you get players on free transfers. But then transfer fees are only about £50k these days for decent players (Sidwell for £75k with bonuses upon Prem), and that Hunt fella you were after was only about £100k max, so surely this sale isn't going to harm Brighton that much?!?
Granted, he's a superb player, but building a team (IMO) around him is not a long-term plan. Plenty of the other players have proved themselves good enough for Division 2, with a few capable of Division 1.
And remember that other good players (some of other Div 2 teams "trophy" players) are leaving too. Scott Murray came to us, Luke Beckett will leave, other Bristol City players are fed up. QPR players rejecting new contracts (Langley and Carlisle). f*** it... its not that bad.
Just gotta make sure that Zamora, Blackwell, and Brooker are replaced for the season. And with £2m (maybe even more!) you can't go wrong in Division Two. f*** me, we're putting a budget of about £2m to get us about 4 players to try to get into the Premiership this year, so its hardly all doom and gloom.
The only real aspect is the sentimentality of losing a quality player... and the worry of putting the money back into the team. If you get over the first one, and the second one happens, you're laughing all the way back to Div 1... and will probably have a better infrastructure (IMO again) if you get there than last season, where an injury to Zamora meant that the team was relatively fecked.
And have some drinks... on Saturday
What can you do with it?
Well, wages of £4k a week (probably about right for top-end Div 2 players)... = £156k per year salary. 3 year contracts = about £450k. That's if you get players on free transfers. But then transfer fees are only about £50k these days for decent players (Sidwell for £75k with bonuses upon Prem), and that Hunt fella you were after was only about £100k max, so surely this sale isn't going to harm Brighton that much?!?
Granted, he's a superb player, but building a team (IMO) around him is not a long-term plan. Plenty of the other players have proved themselves good enough for Division 2, with a few capable of Division 1.
And remember that other good players (some of other Div 2 teams "trophy" players) are leaving too. Scott Murray came to us, Luke Beckett will leave, other Bristol City players are fed up. QPR players rejecting new contracts (Langley and Carlisle). f*** it... its not that bad.
Just gotta make sure that Zamora, Blackwell, and Brooker are replaced for the season. And with £2m (maybe even more!) you can't go wrong in Division Two. f*** me, we're putting a budget of about £2m to get us about 4 players to try to get into the Premiership this year, so its hardly all doom and gloom.
The only real aspect is the sentimentality of losing a quality player... and the worry of putting the money back into the team. If you get over the first one, and the second one happens, you're laughing all the way back to Div 1... and will probably have a better infrastructure (IMO again) if you get there than last season, where an injury to Zamora meant that the team was relatively fecked.
And have some drinks... on Saturday
Tthe opposition fans don't feel the type of anguish in losing Zamora though. I imagine if we lost someone like Forster I'd be devastated...