I've always been a lurker and occasional poster on here, but after supporting the stripes for 50+ years, I now feel the need to post!
Had Chelsea and Todd not come in for GP, would we have been happy grinding out a home draw with the mighty Liverpool, playing lovely tippy tappy football (predominantly sideways at the back) with a lack of confidence in the final third and rueing the endless opportunities missed (sound familiar for a team currently struggling?) - I possibly think we would at the beginning of Aug 22.
Now we appear to have an upgrade in the RDZ, scoring goals and ripping decent teams apart and Todd paid us £20m for the privilege. Admittedly we'd already trousered £60m from him for Mr Cucurella (who is hardly tearing up trees at the Bridge, plus (yes plus!) allowing us to take the immense Levi Colwill on loan. If they let us keep him, I'd be astounded, but this is Chelsea we are talking about.
If the football business was regulated from a financial perspective, in hindsight, the authorities might have a compelling case in the above case for fraud!
The icing on the cake will obviously for Todd to pay us multi millions to take Leo off our hands to keep their bench ward (sorry Leo, but this is a cutthroat business and you may have scored your first own goal)
We should all be rightfully proud of what TB and his whole team are currently achieving - everything evolves and maybe Brighton (and some others) are changing the blueprint of running a very successful football club. Just lately it's striking to me that the sum of the parts can be better than a bunch of individuals.
Just stealing something from the LFC forum - a poster eloquently pointed out that LFC have stood still wallowing in their success, with no succession planning or effective recruitment - something that Brighton excel at and that's a major reason why they are struggling. We know that we never stand still, it's part of the overall strategy. At the back end of last season the big 6 were all over Biss, but most of us knew after a couple of games that Moises was way better than Biss at that stage of his career. The job the club did replacing Mr Cucurella with Pervis was inspired, not only from a financial perspective. And the succession planning still looks very exciting.......
Had things not happened the way they did in September, I'm not sure we would be rejoicing like we are now. I bloody love this club!
Had Chelsea and Todd not come in for GP, would we have been happy grinding out a home draw with the mighty Liverpool, playing lovely tippy tappy football (predominantly sideways at the back) with a lack of confidence in the final third and rueing the endless opportunities missed (sound familiar for a team currently struggling?) - I possibly think we would at the beginning of Aug 22.
Now we appear to have an upgrade in the RDZ, scoring goals and ripping decent teams apart and Todd paid us £20m for the privilege. Admittedly we'd already trousered £60m from him for Mr Cucurella (who is hardly tearing up trees at the Bridge, plus (yes plus!) allowing us to take the immense Levi Colwill on loan. If they let us keep him, I'd be astounded, but this is Chelsea we are talking about.
If the football business was regulated from a financial perspective, in hindsight, the authorities might have a compelling case in the above case for fraud!
The icing on the cake will obviously for Todd to pay us multi millions to take Leo off our hands to keep their bench ward (sorry Leo, but this is a cutthroat business and you may have scored your first own goal)
We should all be rightfully proud of what TB and his whole team are currently achieving - everything evolves and maybe Brighton (and some others) are changing the blueprint of running a very successful football club. Just lately it's striking to me that the sum of the parts can be better than a bunch of individuals.
Just stealing something from the LFC forum - a poster eloquently pointed out that LFC have stood still wallowing in their success, with no succession planning or effective recruitment - something that Brighton excel at and that's a major reason why they are struggling. We know that we never stand still, it's part of the overall strategy. At the back end of last season the big 6 were all over Biss, but most of us knew after a couple of games that Moises was way better than Biss at that stage of his career. The job the club did replacing Mr Cucurella with Pervis was inspired, not only from a financial perspective. And the succession planning still looks very exciting.......
Had things not happened the way they did in September, I'm not sure we would be rejoicing like we are now. I bloody love this club!
grateful they created the opportunity for our club to grow wth RDZ and this...
