[Albion] Fabian Hürzeler **SINGED 15/06/2024**

[Triggaaar]

It's amazing that between an inexperienced 31-year old coach (who has less experience than GP when he was appointed) and an infinitely more experienced GP now, fans will opt for the former out of pride even if it's a massive gamble. Nice one lads!

It makes no difference since the fans don't pick the appointment

 

[Hugo Rune]

£5m from RdZ would soften the blow

Just what I was thinking. Perhaps from Man Utd.

 

[Hiheidi]

Just what I was thinking. Perhaps from Man Utd.

Apparently it's only valid until around mid-August.

 

[tronnogull]

Unusually for Brighton, they are in rather a weak negotiating position. They want to purchase a unique asset which the seller doesn't really want to sell. I am sure that
B & B will have a maximum, walk away, price in mind but it will take massive discipline to stick to it given the need to get a manager in place.

 

[jackalbion]

I've googled 'Fabian Hurzeler wag' and found he used to have a girlfriend, but they split up because he was watching too much football.

Glad to see he's got his priorities right.

It seems me and Fabian have a lot in common.

 

[Silverhatch]

Unusually for Brighton, they are in rather a weak negotiating position. They want to purchase a unique asset which the seller doesn't really want to sell. I am sure that
B & B will have a maximum, walk away, price in mind but it will take massive discipline to stick to it given the need to get a manager in place.

Well we have £220m of (twats) Chelsea’s pounds to supplement St Pauli’s (worthy) coffers.

 

[Frutos]

It makes no difference since the fans don't pick the appointment

Well, one of them does.

 

[dwayne]

Why is this a high fee?

He is possibly their single most important employee. St. Pauli are doing their calculations to find out what offers the best chances of survival. I don't think it would be too wrong of them if their view is that him leaving or staying could be the difference between relegation or staying up. I think they've got every right to demand a lot for him.

And he'll hopefully be the same to us.

I think modern head coaches are undervalued

Their total wage bill is just over 9m. They are small fry. But they do have us over a barrel here.

 

[Guinness Boy]

£5m from RdZ would soften the blow

Blow?

We made £120 million in the season before we sold Caicedo to Chelsea for £115 million

 

[Frutos]

Sacha Lewandowski was in joint charge with Sami, at Leverkusen, rather than his assistant.

With the benefit of hindsight, it’s probably just as well he never came to us, given later revelations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sascha_Lewandowski

Bloody hell, I never knew that!

 

[Triggaaar]

Well, one of them does.

Yeah fair enough. So Tony is picking the inexperienced Fabian rather than Potter, out of pride. Nice one Tony.

 

[Taybha]

Think he's saying tomorrow

 

[Stato]

Just browsed Transfermarkt to see which coaches he's worked with in the past. Small world, as there's an Albion connection in there. Remember David Yelldell? German American keeper that we had on a short loan spell from Blackburn back in Mark McGhee's time. He was goalkeeping coach of Germany's U18 side back in 2020 when Hurzeler was assistant manager. He's been Dynamo Dresden's keeper coach for the last four years.

 

[Triggaaar]

He may have to win over some of the older players based on his age and lesser experience.

Gross is a model pro. I'm sure Dunk has every confidence in Bloom, and if Bloom says this is the right manager, I'd expect Dunk to back him, and help get the rest of the squad on board.

 

[keaton]

£6.3m still sounds a little high as a one off payment. But fair play to st Pauli for negotiating that if true.

Half of what Bayern paid for Kompany. And he was shit last year

 

[dwayne]

Half of what Bayern paid for Kompany. And he was shit last year

That's a big name premier league manager on 5/6x the salary of hurzeler.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Just what I was thinking. Perhaps from Man Utd.

Didn’t take long for that theory to be blown out of the water!

 

[dippy2449]

He may have to win over some of the older players based on his age and lesser experience.

If he shows early on he has the tactical knowledge and the "emotional intelligence" , age and experience will soon be forgotten.

I think that may be true if he were going to one of the clubs with big egos. I suspect that part of the recruitment model is to find the talent where that is unlikely to occur. Caicedo may be an outlier but I believe there was an element of agent pressure/persuasion there.

 

[Zeberdi]

And then we have to finish negotiating his exit to Chelsea.

I’m willing to bet it will be Arsenal or Man Citeh after us.

I can’t remember how long we’ve contracted him to - 2027 presumably?

 

[Bakero]

I’m willing to bet it will be Arsenal or Man Citeh after us.

I can’t remember how long we’ve contracted him to - 2027 presumably?

That's what was rumoured.