[Albion] Ben Foster Predicts Brighton to be Relegated

[A1X]

Last summer we circa £10m on transfer fees, this summer we have spent the same. Compared to what the vast majority of other PL clubs have spent I would suggest something isn’t right financially.

And if it is just a case that Tony wants some of his money back after all he’s invested I’d have no problem with that, but you can’t penny pinch and also claim to want to be a top 10 side simultaneously. Just be straight with us.

 

[Swansman]

Last summer we circa £10m on transfer fees, this summer we have spent the same. Compared to what the vast majority of other PL clubs have spent I would suggest something isn’t right financially.

Maybe the owner didnt enslave enough people in third world countries to be able to compete with some others.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Predictions for me are like attending friendlies, a waste of time, I take no notice.
Although I do think that unless we sign someone we are probably going to struggle like last season but you cannot predict how Watford, Norwich, Brentford, Palace, Southampton and Newcastle are going to perform and we don't know that Maupay and Wellbeck (when fit) are going to be prolific.
Let's see what happens after 2 games and when the window closes.

 

[Sheebo]

Correct about last summer spending but don’t forget the transfer window closed late last year. The two Poles and Zeqri were about £19m in total. What we also won’t know will be the signing on fees for AL and DW last season who were free agents.

This season is closer to circa £20m already with Mwepu and the Ajax keeper signed already and hopefully the longed for striker will materialise soon.

Mmmm don’t think your figures are right. Zeqiri about 3.5mil tops - the other 2 about 9 tops in total…

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....n-polish-duo-jakub-moder-and-michal-karbownik

Mwepu apparently more like 12 than 20 and guessing the keeper wasn’t much - not £8mil etc…

 

[Guinness Boy]

Why? Did he attend the pre-season trainings or something or why would he know more about Brighton than anyone else?

Because he's played against Potter, played with Welbeck and knows most of the players who other sides have brought in. Has the 4-4-2 teaboy?

 

[GT49er]

Strange really as today in the Daily Mail NONE of thier sports Journos had BHA being relegated.

Oh dear, we're not allowed to read the Daily Mail, even when it's got its facts/opinions right, dontcha know?

 

[The Fits]

Grown man sat in a Man U shirt. Will take with a pinch of salt.

 

[AZ Gull]

White gone, Lamptey probably on a treatment table for most of the season. That's all our pace and creativity in transition on our right gone for God knows how long. I'm more worried about it than the mythical striker.

Presumably, you therefore think that Potter is a genius for keeping us up in 2019-20 when he didn't have White and Lamptey only played in 8 matches?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Presumably, you therefore think that Potter is a genius for keeping us up in 2019-20 when he didn't have White and Lamptey only played in 8 matches?

We were in a lot of trouble before Covid struck and had just lost at home to Palace.

Potter did a fantastic job of gaming lockdown football, playing it like a tournament and selecting horses for courses (wins v Norwich and Burnley traded for getting absolutely battered at home by Liverpool and City when there were no fans to complain). Lamptey was a good part of that.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Didn't we have this sort of thing last summer? signed Lallana and Veltman early doors then that was it until Wellbeck signed after the start of the season? Suddenly it went from doom and gloom to excitement?

The squad needs more than just a striker this time though, 3 probably 4 players needed in most people’s books.

 

[AZ Gull]

We were in a lot of trouble before Covid struck and had just lost at home to Palace.

Potter did a fantastic job of gaming lockdown football, playing it like a tournament and selecting horses for courses (wins v Norwich and Burnley traded for getting absolutely battered at home by Liverpool and City when there were no fans to complain). Lamptey was a good part of that.

 

[Shooting Star]

From where we stand today, I’d agree with him.

 

[junior]

I have to say I agree with him. Without a striker and a wing back I think we're down this season.

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Mmmm don’t think your figures are right. Zeqiri about 3.5mil tops - the other 2 about 9 tops in total…

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....n-polish-duo-jakub-moder-and-michal-karbownik

Mwepu apparently more like 12 than 20 and guessing the keeper wasn’t much - not £8mil etc…

Some reports had the Poles at a combined total of £14.5m. Likewise Mwepu, where reports of his fee differ. But hey, it’s all a bit irrelevant. What’s not up for discussion is we’ve certainly not done enough early business this season.

 

[swindonseagull]

Oh dear, we're not allowed to read the Daily Mail, even when it's got its facts/opinions right, dontcha know?

Sorry, but I'm a big boy. I read what I want and when I want.

 

[Sheebo]

Some reports had the Poles at a combined total of £14.5m. Likewise Mwepu, where reports of his fee differ. But hey, it’s all a bit irrelevant. What’s not up for discussion is we’ve certainly not done enough early business this season.

Yes I agree - it’s very frustrating. I just thought if both poles and Zak were £19 odd mil that is pretty shot as only Moder looks like making it at present tbh… But time will tell.

I’m normally not frustrated easily with the way the club do things but the transfers in is starting by to annoy me now.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Brighton line up away to Norwich

Ryan
Lamptey Dunk Webster Burn
Bissouma Mooy Propper
Trossard
Maupay Connolly

Brighton home to Man City

Ryan
Montoya Webster Dunk Bernardo
Mooy Propper Bissouma Trossard
Gross
Connolly

while against Liverpool, Lamptey played and got an assist but we had Stephens Propper and MacAllister as our midfield.

 

[GT49er]

Last summer we circa £10m on transfer fees, this summer we have spent the same. Compared to what the vast majority of other PL clubs have spent I would suggest something isn’t right financially.

Mmmm don’t think your figures are right. Zeqiri about 3.5mil tops - the other 2 about 9 tops in total…

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....n-polish-duo-jakub-moder-and-michal-karbownik

Mwepu apparently more like 12 than 20 and guessing the keeper wasn’t much - not £8mil etc…

So, both seasons more than £10M then.

Even U23s like Jensen Weir cost us another £500K, and I suspect Khadra cost at least as much, if not more. We are, quite literally, spending millions on transfers for our U23 team, plus signing on fees for free transfers (that won't be peanuts either!), and that's on tip if the headline £10M PLUS for first team incoming tranfers.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Little Old Brighton is the "Go To" pick for thought-free pundits.

 

[Weststander]

Brighton line up away to Norwich

Ryan
Lamptey Dunk Webster Burn
Bissouma Mooy Propper
Trossard
Maupay Connolly

Brighton home to Man City

Ryan
Montoya Webster Dunk Bernardo
Mooy Propper Bissouma Trossard
Gross
Connolly

while against Liverpool, Lamptey played and got an assist but we had Stephens Propper and MacAllister as our midfield.

Lockdown 1 kept us up. Potter used it to its full, it halted our horrendous negative EPL momentum and allowed the squad a welcome psychological reset. We were one of the winners. [Funnily enough, 90% of nsc’ers wanted 2019/20 null and voided in May 2020, for high moral reasons for humanity …. of course ].

Sheffield United, for example, suffered the exact opposite and in fact never did recover.