[Albion] Sam Jewell

[TomandJerry]

Todd's assistant on his way to Mr Bloom's vault

 

[The Fits]

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.

Pretty sure they regularly have the youngest team in the league so I'm not sure about that.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

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?

Lewis Dunk would like a word.

 

[The Fits]

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 …

Jewell wouldn't have been doing these things on his own. And, if suddenly we genuinely have lost some kind of S American transfer guru, there's plenty of other markets.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

I’m starting to understand why the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is such an institution. Everyone up that way is on perpetual gardening leave.

 

[Javeaseagull]

Of course. People are headhunted in every industry. But at what point do you start to think you're in the right place? I've been in the position myself where I could have gone to bigger outfits for more money, but other considerations including work/life balance, corporate culture etc, and simply being somewhere that I enjoyed working, kept me where I was. In football, of course, the imperatives may be different from the point of view of the 'corporate' objectives but the other considerations are the same.

Would you really, really see Chelsea as a better employment prospect than Brighton right now? Their main attraction seems to be 'we'll give you a shit-load more money to come here, and if it doesn't work out and we bin you in a panic clear-out in a few months, we'll give you a shit-load of money to go away.'

I wonder as well as the money the fact that it is Chelsea means you don’t have to uproot family to move. You have the security of more money for the length of the contract no matter what happens. Plus of course, there doesn’t seem to be too much blame attached to Potter and others, failing at was is considered to be an impossible job.

i have stopped worrying since I heard Paul Barber say that everyone is replaceable and in fact it was part of his job to ensure a smooth succession to himself! As we all know it is only Tony Bloom that cannot be replaced.

 

[Justice]

Another couple of our targets will be Chelsea bound now.
Roy Keane recently said why are Chelsea raiding Brighton , Brighton haven’t won anything and are unlikely to win anything. He finds it as strange as I do.

 

[JetsetJimbo]

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.

I mean, it's not technically true that there's "absolutely nothing", though it might be "effectively nothing". An employee on gardening leave is still an employee; passing on privileged information to a competitor would come with the same professional (and possibly criminal?) sanctions that would occur if he did that while still actually working for Brighton.

Of course, it could be that those sanctions aren't strong enough to act as any kind of deterrent - I wouldn't know. If that's the case, though, that's when it becomes "effectively nothing".

 

[Javeaseagull]

Another couple of our targets will be Chelsea bound now.
Roy Keane recently said why are Chelsea raiding Brighton , Brighton haven’t won anything and are unlikely to win anything. He finds it as strange as I do.

I don’t often agree with Roy Keane but I do agree with this. We haven’t won anything to shout about and Paul Barber often says we make mistakes and don’t get it right all the time. Despite this how many times do you hear Brighton referred to as the “perfect way” to run a club. It’s a wonderful myth and long may it continue.

 

[Dibdab]

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 …

You honestly dont think lots of other people in the club know and worked with Jewell on how he got those deals done? No knowledge will be lost. He was the mouthpiece and deal finisher, I doubt very much he was the master strategist.

 

[The Fits]

I totally agree with Keane on this one too
If you want to be Brighton, you want to be an overachieving mid table Premier league club. Is that really their ambition?
It's all so odd.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

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

Me as well. As far as Ikm concern they can keep coming back. Their success rate has been woeful. Neither Cucurella or Caicedo have been worth anywhere near their transfer fee, Potter and the backroom staff were a disaster and yet we still rinsed them for a couple of 100 million.

 

[The Fits]

You honestly dont think lots of other people in the club know and worked with Jewell on how he got those deals done? No knowledge will be lost. He was the mouthpiece and deal finisher, I doubt very much he was the master strategist.

Yes this. And 'oh he learnt Spanish'. Well bloody bully for he. I mean come on.

 

[The Fifth Column]

Can't blame Jewell, sometimes the pressure of being at a successful club at the top end of the table and competing in Europe can be too much and moving to a club further down the pyramid might be a better fit.

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Lewis Dunk would like a word.

Fair enough. In Dunk we have what appears to be essentially a one-club man and I hope he stands as an exception for the rest of his career. I assume we've had offers – I seem to remember Newcastle enquired when we were in the Championship? I'd be curious to see if, for example he goes to the Euros and Chelsea were to offer us another boat-load of cash for him, whether even he would follow the same, well-worn path.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

I've got a source that's very close to Boehly. He tells me that Todd is genuinely in love with the Albion. Everything about us from how we're run, how we play and even how we look.

So much so that he's seriously contemplating getting the white stripes for the chelsea kit next year.

Jack is receptive to the move but Meg is proving harder to convince.















Sorry

 

[The Fits]

They just don't get it. Barber is what, the second highest paid MD? And Bloom is Bloom.
So keep signing our players and keep paying compensation for our staff. Because you're not having either of those boys.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I totally agree with Keane on this one too
If you want to be Brighton, you want to be an overachieving mid table Premier league club. Is that really their ambition?
It's all so odd.

But that's ignoring the fact that potential can be limited by environment. Brighton has a more limited likelihood of achieving success than money burning Chelsea and subsequently the potential for success is several degrees higher there.

 

[Doc Lynam]

But that's ignoring the fact that potential can be limited by environment. Brighton has a more limited likelihood of achieving success than money burning Chelsea and subsequently the potential for success is several degrees higher there.

Brighton also has one of the highest catchment areas in-terms of population and Shirley one of greatest potential to grow.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Brighton also has one of the highest catchment areas in-terms of population and Shirley one of greatest potential to grow.

That's true. But clubs like Chelsea and Man city artificially elevated themselves through financial doping over many years in order to achieve their success. I think the new FFP rules will stop that, hence Newcastle's fans ire, and in any case that's not something Bloom was either able (I simply don't know) or inclined to do.