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Which is a poor explanation. Everyone has known for 10 years how Burnley play football and it doesnt prevent them from meeting or exceeding expectations every season.
Big difference between playing Burnley twice a year and playing Brighton. We’re easy to prepare for in as much we play the same football as many other teams, it’s all possession based, patterns of play and playing through the counter. Preparing for us is meat and drink for a PL manager as they won’t be working on anything new or special or different, whatever we offer they’ve seen multiple times before from Liverpool, Arsenal, Southampton, Leicester, Palace etc. Burnley are a completely different proposition, it’s an old school physical style that PL players do not face week in week out, they take you out of your comfort zone.
There is a fair chance GP gets sacked (or walks as there's easily a world where you can get burned out from managing this rollercoaster of a team) at the end of the season but I think his chances of keeping the job is better than it was for CH, for a variety of reasons, the main one being that Covid seriously ****ed up the squad building.
Covid wasn’t just in Sussex.
When on average clubs have a transfer deficit of around £50m per year (in the last two seasons) while Brighton over the last two years is very close to £0, just staying up is a pretty decent achievement. This can be compared with the -£120m in CHs two seasons and the -£53m in GPs first season.
Going close to £0 in transfer deficit over two seasons without losing ground in the PL is remarkable and I think TB is well aware.
Hughton needed to spend big money to have a squad capable of surviving in the Premier League. Potter inherited a team that was already littered with established PL players, he wasn’t trying to survive whilst using Jamie Murphy, Tomer Hemed and Gaetan Bong.