7oaksgull
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Brighton
A move finished by Brighton’s first ever Premier League signing and started, at the time of writing, by their last. The second-highest top-flight appearance maker in the club’s history combined indirectly with a player making his full debut to finally overcome Leeds.
It was a victory Brighton entirely deserved, secured by the player of the nascent Premier League season and contributed to by the weekend’s second most effective Estupinan. So in control of their own destiny are the Seagulls that the solitary goal they have conceded after four games was scored by themselves.
They are the envy of most clubs outside the current elite – and indeed perhaps at least one within that cabal. The supreme coaching of Graham Potter has been aligned with the sort of transfer mastery that makes you wonder why every team doesn’t just identify talent in under-scouted areas for cheap, invest time and money into developing them, sell them at a considerable profit and already have their replacement embedded in the squad.
None of it is even vaguely that simple, of course. Brighton just make it look as such.
Their starting XI against Leeds cost £65.3m in transfer fees and was signed from, in position order from goalkeeper to striker: Levante, Ajax, Bristol City, Independiente del Valle, Argentinos Juniors, Lewes, Villarreal, Ingolstadt, Genk and Watford, with an academy graduate thrown in for good measure.
These are selling clubs a certain level of team wouldn’t even consider looking at for fears that players would be unsuitable, not immediately ready and, frankly, not illustrious, prestigious or indulgent enough for executives or supporters. Brighton are content to take the time in polishing potential diamonds, aiding their growth and ultimately benefiting all parties.
That might ordinarily make them something of a stepping stone and truthfully their place far from the top of the food chain is established and embraced. But only a fool would willingly leave such green pastures right now and the mere suggestion that Potter might have his head turned by Aston Villa is as preposterous as it is hilarious.
A move finished by Brighton’s first ever Premier League signing and started, at the time of writing, by their last. The second-highest top-flight appearance maker in the club’s history combined indirectly with a player making his full debut to finally overcome Leeds.
It was a victory Brighton entirely deserved, secured by the player of the nascent Premier League season and contributed to by the weekend’s second most effective Estupinan. So in control of their own destiny are the Seagulls that the solitary goal they have conceded after four games was scored by themselves.
They are the envy of most clubs outside the current elite – and indeed perhaps at least one within that cabal. The supreme coaching of Graham Potter has been aligned with the sort of transfer mastery that makes you wonder why every team doesn’t just identify talent in under-scouted areas for cheap, invest time and money into developing them, sell them at a considerable profit and already have their replacement embedded in the squad.
None of it is even vaguely that simple, of course. Brighton just make it look as such.
Their starting XI against Leeds cost £65.3m in transfer fees and was signed from, in position order from goalkeeper to striker: Levante, Ajax, Bristol City, Independiente del Valle, Argentinos Juniors, Lewes, Villarreal, Ingolstadt, Genk and Watford, with an academy graduate thrown in for good measure.
These are selling clubs a certain level of team wouldn’t even consider looking at for fears that players would be unsuitable, not immediately ready and, frankly, not illustrious, prestigious or indulgent enough for executives or supporters. Brighton are content to take the time in polishing potential diamonds, aiding their growth and ultimately benefiting all parties.
That might ordinarily make them something of a stepping stone and truthfully their place far from the top of the food chain is established and embraced. But only a fool would willingly leave such green pastures right now and the mere suggestion that Potter might have his head turned by Aston Villa is as preposterous as it is hilarious.
