[Albion] Imagine What We Could 'Of' Had...

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

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It was the speedboat that always made me chuckle

 

[Uh_huh_him]

I Loved every second of the first season and a half of De Zerbi.
But he suffered from the same issue as every progressive manager, with limited budgets, in the Prem.
They get worked out.
To be successful in the long-term at this level, a coach needs to be able to mix it up a bit.

No idea whether Huerzeler has what it takes to be successful at this level, but De Zerbi will only have long term success with his style, by managing a Man City level squad.

 

[Han Solo]

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[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I Loved every second of the first season and a half of De Zerbi.
But he suffered from the same issue as every progressive manager, with limited budgets, in the Prem.
They get worked out.
To be successful in the long-term at this level, a coach needs to be able to mix it up a bit.

No idea whether Huerzeler has what it takes to be successful at this level, but De Zerbi will only have long term success with his style, by managing a Man City level squad.

Seems to be doing ok at OM

 

[warmleyseagull]

RDZ was fighting on behalf of us fans to push the club to be as ambitious as he and we wanted it to be. In the end tho, the club pushed back on that ambition

By being the club with the highest transfer spend in summer 2024?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

By being the club with the highest transfer spend in summer 2024?

Didn't exactly help us in January 2024 when RDZ had an injury list as long as his arm and had secured our place in the last 16 of a major European competition

 

[Balders]

RDZ left as he didn't agree with the Club's strategy, the same strategy that he accepted when he took the job. The Club are being consistent, RDZ wasn't. So if you don't agree with the strategy, do what RDZ has done, go somewhere else, because no matter how much you post, things ain't gonna change on the basis of what you or RDZ want/wanted, regardless of what you say ;-)

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

RDZ left as he didn't agree with the Club's strategy, the same strategy that he accepted when he took the job. The Club are being consistent, RDZ wasn't. So if you don't agree with the strategy, do what RDZ has done, go somewhere else, because no matter how much you post, things ain't gonna change on the basis of what you or RDZ want/wanted, regardless of what you say ;-)

RDZ wanted the club to be the best that they could be, right there right then. Had a great one-off shot at further European glory. Sadly tho, the club pushed back on that ambition. Little wonder the bloke got terminally pissed off

 

[AK74]

The absolute state of this thread.

 

[Zeberdi]

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What a lot of bollix you post sometimes . There’s so much wrong with this insanely biased pro-Potter anti-De Zerbi agenda-ridden post, I can’t be bothered to even unpack it.

You must be the only Brighton fan in history that has never seen a Brighton game yet in his relatively short time of being a Brighton fan (as a result of following a manager in Sweden), now spends an inordinate amount of time deriding other Brighton fans for being ‘failed plastics’ or having the gall not to be as obsessed as you are about Potter, to the point you feel the need to constantly pitch him against a manager that gave us arguably the best season in the Club’s history, a manager that got us for the first time into Europe.

We are now on the second post-Potter manager and you are still obsessing.

 

[Springal]

What a lot of bollix you post sometimes . There’s so much wrong with this insanely biased pro-Potter anti-De Zerbi agenda-ridden post, I can’t be bothered to even unpack it.

You must be the only Brighton fan in history that has never seen a Brighton game yet in his relatively short time of being a Brighton fan (as a result of following a manager in Sweden), now spends an inordinate amount of time deriding other Brighton fans for being ‘failed plastics’ or having the gall not to be as obsessed as you are about Potter, to the point you feel the need to constantly pitch him against a manager that gave us arguably the best season in the Club’s history, a manager that got us for the first time into Europe.

We are now on the second post-Potter manager and you are still obsessing.

Apart from the last paragraph , looks a fair summary to me

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Seems to be doing ok at OM

Lets see how he does in his second season.
My guess, he will be off, bfore the end of it

 

[Balders]

RDZ wanted the club to be the best that they could be, right there right then. Had a great one-off shot at further European glory. Sadly tho, the club pushed back on that ambition. Little wonder the bloke got terminally pissed off

"Had a great one-off shot" - so you'd invest on a great one-off shot? Why would it have to be a one-off? This is typical of the "jam today" mentality with zero interest in the long term. Thankfully, in my humble opinion, I'm glad the Club didn't go "all in" in these circumstances where they were technically held to ransom by one individual and actually took the view of long term sustainability, rather than appeasing certain sections of the fan base.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

RDZ was great until everyone worked out not to take the bait.

 

[Deadly Danson]

Lets see how he does in his second season.
My guess, he will be off, bfore the end of it

Yep, the most predicatable thing in football was that RDZ would go to OM and do well for a bit. The next most predictable thing is that the wheels will come off, he'll blame others and it'll all end in tears and off he'll go again and the cycle will continue.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

"Had a great one-off shot" - so you'd invest on a great one-off shot? Why would it have to be a one-off? This is typical of the "jam today" mentality with zero interest in the long term. Thankfully, in my humble opinion, I'm glad the Club didn't go "all in" in these circumstances where they were technically held to ransom by one individual and actually took the view of long term sustainability, rather than appeasing certain sections of the fan base.

How many fans will be doing limbs over a tidy sustainable long term business model do you think? One for the accountants maybe

Besides, take your eye off the ball on the pitch at this level and you'll be unceremoniously dumped on your arse into the Championship. Better hope and pray we buy better than we sell. Tho sadly It all seems to be going in the one unsustainable direction

 

[Greg Bobkin]

... with RDZ in charge and a £200m war chest at his disposal when we most needed it to properly compete in the Europa League knockout stages. Or even if he'd been told to just bite the bullet til the summer when his concerns would be addressed in full.

Oh well, mustn't grumble. Got some nice shiny new infrastructure coming down the line and a nice new Wally From St Pauli guy who just repeats the meaningless mantra Trust The Process while all the while floundering

And...RELAX!

Maybe he was

 

[Balders]

How many fans will be doing limbs over a tidy sustainable long term business model do you think? One for the accountants maybe

Besides, take your eye off the ball on the pitch at this level and you'll be unceremoniously dumped on your arse into the Championship. Better hope and pray we buy better than we sell. Tho sadly It all seems to be going in the one unsustainable direction

I note from this thread that over a number of years your total disdain of TB and all this proves to myself (we are all entitled to our own opinions) is that TB has been proved right more often than not, whereas the majority of your observations haven't panned out.

I've been a fan all of my life, I'd take TB guiding us to become a consistent EPL Top 10 team every day of the week over many years not even being sat at the top table - where we stand today, the pointers are all there for us to accomplish same.

Still we were second in the League not many weeks ago and now apparently the business model is unsustainable and relegation beckons........

At least we are in better form than Man City and just look at how much money they've spent on the odd one off title!

 

[Guinness Boy]

Maybe he was

Having seen how raw our signings are it’s quite possible he was given a look at the list and wanted more experience. We’ll never know, of course, but this is a club where the coach coaches and the system / process does the recruitment. RDZ would have been told that at the start and should have remembered it at the end.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I note from this thread that over a number of years your total disdain of TB and all this proves to myself (we are all entitled to our own opinions) is that TB has been proved right more often than not, whereas the majority of your observations haven't panned out.

I've been a fan all of my life, I'd take TB guiding us to become a consistent EPL Top 10 team every day of the week over many years not even being sat at the top table - where we stand today, the pointers are all there for us to accomplish same.

Still we were second in the League not many weeks ago and now apparently the business model is unsustainable and relegation beckons........

At least we are in better form than Man City and just look at how much money they've spent on the odd one off title!

Thanks for stalking

Just for the record - because you seem to track these things - I firmly believe that TB is a very astute businessman first and a bobble-hatted fan a very poor second. The financial crash of 2008 did him a massive financial favour. Else DK and MP would have reaped the benefit of all those long hard years of graft by funding the stadium via the normal sources of funding ie the banks. So forgive me if I refuse to genuflect in the general direction of TB