[Albion] Brighton are better ?

chaileyjem said:

"Given that they have a better stadium, better owner, better chief suit, better scouting, better recruitment, better players and a better team, it was no great surprise that Brighton beat United at Old Trafford for the third time on the spin under three different managers"
Barry Glendenning in The Guardian.

Football Daily | Manchester United bring to mind Dolly Parton with headline-making antics

In today’s Football Daily: Oh Manchester United!

www.theguardian.com

Are we ?

Better than Palace ? Spurs ? EVERTON ? West Ham ?

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Hiheidi said:

Well our training videos are certainly better. Even with the camera rolling after a defeat, they all just look like they can't be arsed!

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Beanstalk said:

Really enjoyed the bits about us on GFW this week.

Barney Ronay made some really interesting points about what a great position we're in:

"Because of the sheer amount of money that comes into the league, to every club, it's now much easier to, in a way, manage and run a small club [in comparison to Manchester United]. If you're Brighton, you can basically play however you want. You can hire whoever you want. You can get players in who have an open relationship with the club - you're going to play well. You can go on to a bigger club if you want. It's fine, we're happy with that.

Managing Brighton and running the club is much easier than managing these ridiculous old legacy institutions, which have a trail of ghosts howling and whining in the eves, expectations. The idea you've got to sign superstars, you've got to have a famous manager. To run [Brighton] is great because you do get a lot of money. You can buy really good players. You can have a fantastic scouting operation... Running that simple, small, self-contained, almost pop-up elite club is much easier and obviously more fun for the players. Everyone at Manchester United or Spurs, they're absolutely haunted. It's like one of the worst experiences of their lives."

He talks about how the league has created this, much to the annoyance of these legacy clubs who built it in the first place and that we should pay less attention to the "ghost ships of terrible, horror stricken clubs" and zoom out because teams like Brighton and Bournemouth and Forest show that the league is competitive and we are actually in the midst of a great PL season.

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Beanstalk said:

Really enjoyed the bits about us on GFW this week.

Barney Ronay made some really interesting points about what a great position we're in:

"Because of the sheer amount of money that comes into the league, to every club, it's now much easier to, in a way, manage and run a small club [in comparison to Manchester United]. If you're Brighton, you can basically play however you want. You can hire whoever you want. You can get players in who have an open relationship with the club - you're going to play well. You can go on to a bigger club if you want. It's fine, we're happy with that.

Managing Brighton and running the club is much easier than managing these ridiculous old legacy institutions, which have a trail of ghosts howling and whining in the eves, expectations. The idea you've got to sign superstars, you've got to have a famous manager. To run [Brighton] is great because you do get a lot of money. You can buy really good players. You can have a fantastic scouting operation... Running that simple, small, self-contained, almost pop-up elite club is much easier and obviously more fun for the players. Everyone at Manchester United or Spurs, they're absolutely haunted. It's like one of the worst experiences of their lives."

He talks about how the league has created this, much to the annoyance of these legacy clubs who built it in the first place and that we should pay less attention to the "ghost ships of terrible, horror stricken clubs" and zoom out because teams like Brighton and Bournemouth and Forest show that the league is competitive and we are actually in the midst of a great PL season.

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