I agree that looks like the result where it went wrong. But for that to happen, something must have gone wrong before the game. We know (from public info from folk at the club) that Chris is a very conservative manager. He is defensive first. He won't play any player until he totally trusts him...
These figures show net spend. At the risk of stating the obvious that is:
Money spent buying players - less money spent selling players.
Of course we're going to be big net spenders. We sold no one worth a penny and bought £5m-£17m players for two seasons running. That adds up quickly.
Other...
Chris is a risk averse manager (remember the recent comments about him not playing anyone in the first team until he can completely trust them). That has served us well but this season it also put TBs investment hugely at risk. He won't allow that to happen again. Better to make a decision and...
Wonder what the impact will be on the changing room. You lose a leader like Bruno and it takes some replacing. We sensed the tension this season, who will step up and lead this squad back together for next season? We will miss El Capitain badly.
Anyone fancy doing a whip round for a small show of our appreciation?
Someone smarter than me can come up with an appropriate gift idea, but I'd be happy to contribute.
I'm not sure it's just an issue of transfer fees. The bigger challenge will be our ability to pay the right wages and offer long contracts to players in a highly competitive market. That will apply to the good ones we already have as much as those we want to add to the squad.
Transfer fees are...
Interesting article fromm Forbes about Euron Greyjoy and his impact on Daenerys
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2019/05/07/game-of-thrones-is-euron-greyjoy-a-mary-sue/
When I look at the U23s I see quite a few players who I suspect would have walked into our side back when we were in League One/Two. These are the sort of players that Prem sides would lend to us back then and we'd say "if only we produced a few of these".
We didn't have that before. So we've...
This has been such a strange time. I thought I'd have cravings and have a daily battle fighting the urge or reflex to have a drink. I just haven't. I've never said never again, but don't want a drink. Hadn't even thought about it really until I saw the drinking culture thread. 107 days (since...
Read in The Times that players are openly criticising Hughton. All is clearly very not good in the Brighton camp. We have the players to stay up, but could easily go down now. Cardiff will be jittery and they will be right up for it.