[Albion] Cheapo Brighton Squad

[Dolph Ins]

Was chatting with Spurs season ticket holder I work with last week and he could't believe it when I said our match day squad probably didn't add up to £100 mil. I thought I'd check. I haven't done any deep research and my memory is not what it was but this is what I remember of the 11 players who have played the most minutes this season.

Sanchez free
Webster 20
Dunk free
White free
Veltman <1
March free
Biss 6
Gross 3
Trossard 6?
Maupay 20
Burn (playing slightly out of position) 4?

Those with ? I am very unsure of my memory.

So if my figures are right we don't even make £60 mill for the 11 most used players. Is this the cheapest squad in the prem?

 

[Bakero]

Think Bissouma was a bit more. 10+ I thought. And Trossard closer to 20.

edit: Several online sources suggest Biss was ~15 million. Tross 18.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Was chatting with Spurs season ticket holder I work with last week and he could't believe it when I said our match day squad probably didn't add up to £100 mil.I thought I'd check. I haven't done any deep research and my memory is not what it was but this is what I remember of the 11 players who have played the most minutes this season.

Sanchez free
Webster 20
Dunk free
White free
Veltman <1
March free
Biss 6
Gross 3
Trossard 6?
Maupay 20
Burn (playing slightly out of position) 4?

Those with ? I am very unsure of my memory.

So if my figures are right we don't even make £60 mill for the 11 most used players. Is this the cheapest squad in the prem?

Bang for buck, who's got the best deal: us or Spurs?

 

[Billy the Fish]

It's the players not in the team that cost all the money.

Our team of outcasts is far more expensive than the current team on the pitch.

 

[Dolph Ins]

It's the players not in the team that cost all the money.

Our team of outcasts is far more expensive than the current team on the pitch.

Agree to an extent but not on the list are Lamptey, Lallana, Welbeck, Allimac, Alzate, Connolly, Proper, Tau and swiss Andy. Not the most expensive bunch of footballers in the Prem.

 

[albionalex]

Was chatting with Spurs season ticket holder I work with last week and he could't believe it when I said our match day squad probably didn't add up to £100 mil. I thought I'd check. I haven't done any deep research and my memory is not what it was but this is what I remember of the 11 players who have played the most minutes this season.

Sanchez free
Webster 20
Dunk free
White free
Veltman <1
March free
Biss 6
Gross 3
Trossard 6?
Maupay 20
Burn (playing slightly out of position) 4?

Those with ? I am very unsure of my memory.

So if my figures are right we don't even make £60 mill for the 11 most used players. Is this the cheapest squad in the prem?

Biss was £15m and Trossard was £16.

But yeah, a very cheap 11.

It would be a lot higher if you include the flops like Ali J and Locadia, and then the other players in the squad e.g Propper, Moder, Mac, Izzy etc.

 

[Thompson720]

It's the players not in the team that cost all the money.

Our team of outcasts is far more expensive than the current team on the pitch.

I disagree, Locadia is an outstanding DJ.

 

[Whitechapel]

Was chatting with Spurs season ticket holder I work with last week and he could't believe it when I said our match day squad probably didn't add up to £100 mil. I thought I'd check. I haven't done any deep research and my memory is not what it was but this is what I remember of the 11 players who have played the most minutes this season.

Sanchez free
Webster 20
Dunk free
White free
Veltman <1
March free
Biss 6
Gross 3
Trossard 6?
Maupay 20
Burn (playing slightly out of position) 4?

Those with ? I am very unsure of my memory.

So if my figures are right we don't even make £60 mill for the 11 most used players. Is this the cheapest squad in the prem?

Burnley and Sheffield United must be much, much cheaper than ours.

 

[albionalex]

Burnley and Sheffield United must be much, much cheaper than ours.

Sheffield United spent ~ £80m on Ramsdale, Berge, McBurnie and Brewster alone.

 

[big nuts]

Burn was £1.5 million from memory.

 

[Dolph Ins]

Biss was £15m and Trossard was £16.

But yeah, a very cheap 11.

It would be a lot higher if you include the flops like Ali J and Locadia, and then the other players in the squad e.g Propper, Moder, Mac, Izzy etc.

Thanks for that, I knew some of my figures would be wrong. So most played minutes squad now up around £80 mil.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Burn was £1.5 million from memory.

£19000 per inch

 

[Skaville]

This fairly realistic starting eleven cost £8.5m

Sanchez £0
Lamptey £3m
March £0
Dunk £0
Veltman £900k
Burn £4.5m
White £0
Alzate £110k
Lallana £0
Connolly £0
Wellbeck £0

Subs
Gross £3m
Steele £0
Tau £2.5m
Karbownik £3m
Zeqiri £3.6m

And to think the recruitment team get stick

 

[albionalex]

This fairly realistic starting eleven cost £8.5m

Sanchez £0
Lamptey £3m
March £0
Dunk £0
Veltman £900k
Burn £4.5m
White £0
Alzate £110k
Lallana £0
Connolly £0
Wellbeck £0

Subs
Gross £3m
Steele £0
Tau £2.5m
Karbownik £3m
Zeqiri £3.6m

And to think the recruitment team get stick

If we ignored all my mistakes at work, I would look pretty great too.

 

[Skaville]

If we ignored all my mistakes at work, I would look pretty great too.

No club gets transfers 100% right, especially with strikers. The recruitment team have hardly put a foot wrong in the past two seasons. Pretty much every signing plays. The only thing they have not achieved is signing a 15 goal a season striker, but that debate has been done to death.

 

[albionalex]

No club gets transfers 100% right, especially with strikers. The recruitment team have hardly put a foot wrong in the past two seasons. Pretty much every signing plays. The only thing they have not achieved is signing a 15 goal a season striker, but that debate has been done to death.

Agreed. And FWIW, I think the recruitment team do a great job. But we can't ignore the mistakes.

 

[Skaville]

Agreed. And FWIW, I think the recruitment team do a great job. But we can't ignore the mistakes.

I can. We’ve had 40 players come to the club in the Premier League years. Locadia and Jahanbaksh are the only major clangers. I make that 5%.

 

[Birdie Boy]

How much was darbownik? Instead of burn..

 

[schmunk]

Andone, if/when he returns, was only €5M.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Are people really trying to airbrush out of history the £30m we wasted on Locadia and Jahanbaksh?
Difficult to brush over that and then laugh at £20m for Brewster in the next breath.

Propper was £15m. Great signing IMHO, solid player for 3 seasons.
Trossard £18m. Decent
Webster £20m. Decent

I think our recruitment team does a great job and they've unearthed some absolute gems. We've spent a decent amount of money in doing so, seen a couple of threads trying to rewrite this fact and it bugs me.