[Albion] Which former Brighton players were FAR too good for us at the time, but wouldn't even get in our reserve team these days?

[Mustafa II]

Wouldn't agree that he was way too good for us - bit of a disappointment IMHO. To be fair though, for a distinctly average player, he had a bloody interesting career. Certainly got to see the world!

I would argue when we were at Withdean, any player of decent Championship quality or above was too good for us. We were constantly punching as a team, and on occasion with the odd individual.

CKR was a quality player. His quality was always there, but he clearly didn't respect the club. Suspect he only joined us as it was a great opportunity to build his profile as 'the coca cola kid' which, as it turned out, worked out really well for him.

He was easily a lower-Premier league quality player. Apart from the loanees like Sidwell & Ingimarsson, and of course a certain Mr Zamora, we didn't have many players of that quality at Withdean.

 

[GT49er]

thought joao teixeira was far too good for that absolute stinker of a team we had in 14/15 and thought he’d go on to have a stable premier league career. no idea where he is now, certainly nowhere near our level

China, via Qatar. Journeyman career rather than a stellar one. A year after he left us, he went to Porto for £250K - I'm sure we could have afforded that, and maybe his career would have turned out differently. Maybe...................
It was a very serious leg-break that ended his time with us though, maybe that had a long term effect.