- Nov 15, 2006
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We have had a manager who effectively said a couple of players were too good for Brighton and constantly saying all players are for sale if the offer is right is hardly likely to make anyone want to stay though. Maybe we shouldn’t be so transparent that we are a club that has no problem with players being in the shop window from the moment they arrive and suggest we’d like them to stay and make us a BIG club would slow the exodus down. Instead we make a point of always saying we have replacements in place, would you be keen to stay in a job with an attitude like that?I think the opposite.
The only players we've sold have wanted out and made it clear they want out. What would you recommend we do at that point? Keep a sulky player and watch his form/value plummet or maximise the fee?
We basically locked Moises away during a January window (after "his" instagram post) to stop him going to Arsenal.
Then sold him reluctantly for a British record 115m in the summer.
I'm sure if he (and the rest of them) wanted to stay then we wouldn't have sold, we didn't "need" the money.
Sorry, I just find it depressing but accept it’s got us where we are, have we reached our ceiling of expectation? Making money being the motivation now rather than becoming a top club and trying to improve even further?