[Albion] Sam Jewell

[Insel affe]

Most people would find this aspect of the argument quite persuasive.

damn right I would

 

[jcdenton08]

How can gardening leave be effective though? I get it with a Premier League manager who loses a massive payout if they take another job - can hardly sit in the dugout pretending to be someone else. But what's the comeback for someone behind the scenes and how does the club stop them passing on all their knowledge in the meantime?

A very long and boring employment contract specifying non-compete clauses, restriction of access to databases/systems and protection against IP theft/corporate espionage. In reality hard to enforce exactly what is said between parties I agree, but these are the mechanisms which are in place.

Plus good old fashioned morality, trust and goodwill.

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Well, the reality is that both Cucurella and Potter became overnight multimillionaires by leaving us for Chelsea, so I can absolutely see why people would move if money was a big motivator.

Is that why they're in football, though, jc? Cucurella seemed to be desperate to go anywhere he could, so long as it was one of the wealthy powerhouses. Look how that's turned out. With a failure on their CVs, the range of 'passion projects' as you nicely name them that will be available to them will be considerably narrower than if they'd stuck around with us for a bit longer and maybe, who knows, even won a trophy here?

And we're a PL club in Europe. I can't believe the players and senior staff aren't on very good money, beyond the likes that most of us will ever see in our lives, to be here. How much money is enough, FFS? Especially to go somewhere with Chelsea's current reputation for instability.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

With immediate effect, Mike Cave, assistant technical director, supported by George Holmes, scouting and intelligence manager, will assume Sam’s responsibilities.

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Most people would find this aspect of the argument quite persuasive.

Maybe I'm out of touch, trueblue. But for me it's a pretty thin argument for people who are already earning extremely well. I'd hope other stuff matters too, in any walk of life.

 

[jcdenton08]

Is that why they're in football, though, jc? Cucurella seemed to be desperate to go anywhere he could, so long as it was one of the wealthy powerhouses. Look how that's turned out. With a failure on their CVs, the range of 'passion projects' as you nicely name them that will be available to them will be considerably narrower than if they'd stuck around with us for a bit longer and maybe, who knows, even won a trophy here?

And we're a PL club in Europe. I can't believe the players and senior staff aren't on very good money, beyond the likes that most of us will ever see in our lives, to be here. How much money is enough, FFS? Especially to go somewhere with Chelsea's current reputation for instability.

Well, right now we are, yes. But we’ve also been in the top division for a fraction of our existence, we’ve never won a major competition (no, the charity shield doesn’t count!) and this is our first ever season in Europe’s second competition.

Chelsea, by comparison, have won everything numerous times, including the Champions League just three seasons ago.

In addition to having your salary quadruped, you are factually enormously more likely to gain silverware as a Chelsea employee than a Brighton one. If it doesn’t work out, they’ve wasted a few years of their career, made an absolute fortune, and can still move a club as good as Brighton on equally good money to what they earned here.

 

[Munchkin]

Small cog in a very well oiled machine.

Replacement part will be sourced and service continued as normal.

 

[kevo]

How can gardening leave be effective though? I get it with a Premier League manager who loses a massive payout if they take another job - can hardly sit in the dugout pretending to be someone else. But what's the comeback for someone behind the scenes and how does the club stop them passing on all their knowledge in the meantime?

Exactly. There is absolutely nothing to stop him researching talent and passing on tips to their current recruitment team in the meantime. It means eff all.

 

[A1X]

Never heard of him until a couple of weeks ago, don't bang your arse on the door on the way out

 

[sagaman]

Think that Jewell will be more of a loss than Winstanley.

Amazed that Chelsea are still recruiting more recruiters when they already have a large pool of players on extended contracts. Where will they put all these youngsters, maybe farm clubs in other leagues?

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

If it doesn’t work out, they’ve wasted a few years of their career, made an absolute fortune, and can still move a club as good as Brighton on equally good money to what they earned here.

Indeed. But another possibility is that you only last a few months in/running the first team, get shoved out of the picture when a new man comes in and doesn't share the vision of his predecessor, can't find another club due to the ludicrous money you're on, and waste a year or more of a career we're always told is desperately short. I realise I'm howling at the moon, but the last player of any profile who seemed to see the benefit of staying where he was, famously, was Le Tissier. He could have won things and earned more money at any one of a ton of other clubs but other things were as or more important to him. Was he a unique example in the game?

 

[tigertim68]

It’s a shame the club can’t keep staff for very long
either players or back room staff

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

clearly chelsea have something better on offer.

He’s in charge of the wider Cheslea group so will be recruiting for Strasbourg as well

I’m sure the 3-4x wage ratio had nothing to do with it

 

[jcdenton08]

It’s a shame the club can’t keep staff for very long
either players or back room staff

Well, we would keep them longer if they didn’t consistently fit into our structure and do brilliant jobs, so that the richest clubs in the world pay us for them. I’d rather have an employee be they staff or player for two brilliant seasons than six mediocre ones.

The fact remains we are Brighton; with a Brighton sized stadium, budget and reputation. Despite this, we continue to attract outstanding footballers to our club, are competing in European knock out legs and are challenging again for Europe in the league.

I don’t know what more people expect

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Think that Jewell will be more of a loss than Winstanley.

Amazed that Chelsea are still recruiting more recruiters when they already have a large pool of players on extended contracts. Where will they put all these youngsters, maybe farm clubs in other leagues?

That’s why they aren’t bothered about the gardening leave, his remit is 2030 onwards based on the current accounts

 

[DFL JCL]

The point that is missed is, we have developed these players since they have come to us. Chelsea don't have the capacity to do that. They don't give them any game time.

 

[Hiheidi]

Danny Hoyle who we took from Norwich last season will likely be our main South American specialist (assuming he’s not that already) given his previous signings at his prior club.

Apparently he's already moved onto Arsenal? I'm not on LinkedIn, but according to Twitter (X) that's what it says on his profile.

 

[The Fits]

Rather than worrying, I can't help but find the whole thing rather amusing.

 

[Tiger Barb]

Key issues here are his ‘current’ knowledge of targets, plus the relationships and experience of dealing in the South American market. The reason that United walked away from Caicedo was that the deal was seen as too difficult to do. We worked through that and gained valuable experience in doing so… that knowledge that Jewell takes with him is the big loss …

 

[ewe2]

Well my glass is half full…..Fresh ideas,from SJ s replacement……