Based on the latest accounts these are the values of the Premier League clubs from last season. There are some natural divides in terms of value.
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When can we consider ourselves a 'big' club
- Thread starter scousefan
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Weststander
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Bournemouth are Massive. The legions at The Vitality Stadium knew this already.
Scoffers
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As so many have said, it's all relative. I think I read somewhere that financially speaking, any club that gets promoted to the EPL automatically becomes one of the top 50 club sides in the world due to the TV money, but as we all know, size isn't everything 
DavePage
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They are big enough for me and always have been, there’s more romance when its like it is at the present
wakeytom
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My point was more about big or small, who really cares as the supporter of your club. Even though we are likely to be the bigger club which set of fans are the happier at the moment. The big club debate is the same as when your team loses but you say you had the most corners
To be fair, I remember giving a lift back to Chester from Wrexham away to a BHA supporter, who has no connection with Brighton, who got sucked in because of Fans United. That was in 2004. We've been something, if not 'big', for a long time. Frankly the concept of 'big' has little meaning. Who is the biggest selling british recording artist of all time? Cliff (sir The Lord's Prayer) Richard. You can be big as Trump, and still be tin pot. Rochdale, with the fewest promotions of any club in the last 40 years, however, are Proper. I'd rather be proper than the revamped, roubled-up Chelsea, for exmple. But . . . on match of the day every week, winning a cup..... with hopes and dreams that have some semblance of achievability, season after season . . . . I'd feel contented.
dejavuatbtn
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My view on this is - A big club is one where it is a surprise if they finish outside of the top 6.
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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It'd have been a pretty big surprise if either Newcastle, Leeds or Villa had made the PL top six this season!
Megazone
On his last warning
When the Amex gets a new name like 'Theatre of dreams' or 'The Lane', then we can start dreaming.
I would have rather won the league than been promoted. Aside the positives for the future of the club I don't give a shit about the PL. We are a great championship team.
The sort of arcane nonsense that piques my interest.
I'm guessing that we have to formally resign our membership of the EFL, and likewise formally join the PL. You might expect both documents to be signed simultaneously, so the club isn't in limbo, belonging to no league. We know that there are required ground improvements (floodlights etc); I'd guess that we won't technically be able to join until we either complete those works or have negotiated a time by which we will have - either way, time will pass. I'm going to plump for 17 July.
Knocky's Nose
Mon nez est retiré.
I think you can consider yourself a 'big club' when you watch a documentary about poverty in some far flung African country and there's a local smiling at camera wearing your home shirt....
Seriously though, I think that to get attendances like we do at the Amex is incredible. If you drew a circle with say a 30 mile radius around the Amex you'd have at least 400,000 fish, 500,000 crustaceans, and 1.2 million wobbly little invertebrates (around 10% of these being Palace fans anyway) - so for the land mass we can farm for supporters we're doing bloody well !!
Seriously though, I think that to get attendances like we do at the Amex is incredible. If you drew a circle with say a 30 mile radius around the Amex you'd have at least 400,000 fish, 500,000 crustaceans, and 1.2 million wobbly little invertebrates (around 10% of these being Palace fans anyway) - so for the land mass we can farm for supporters we're doing bloody well !!
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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agree totally. I would rather just be the community club with a caring attitude rather than some marketing hype
warmleyseagull
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When Lincoln City dream of getting us in the next round.
royceyboy
On the 'ead son!
We will never be considered a big club, as we do not have the history of being Premier league and European champions like Man U and Liverpool. That comes with time. It may be possible that we would be considered a big club in 50 years time if we manage to achieve the same league and European status as the big clubs, but quite frankly, who give a sh!t?
Lets be happy with who we are, where we are, and where we have come from. What we have achieved in the last 20 years is beyond belief. We have a great club, with amazingly loyal fans, a beautiful stadium, and facilities to rival most in the top tier. We are finally in the Premier league, and I for one, can not wait to see us playing against those aforementioned big clubs next season! They will consider us to be a small club, and we are compared to them. A small club with a big heart!
Lets be happy with who we are, where we are, and where we have come from. What we have achieved in the last 20 years is beyond belief. We have a great club, with amazingly loyal fans, a beautiful stadium, and facilities to rival most in the top tier. We are finally in the Premier league, and I for one, can not wait to see us playing against those aforementioned big clubs next season! They will consider us to be a small club, and we are compared to them. A small club with a big heart!
royceyboy
On the 'ead son!
Really interesting reading. With the size of our stadium we will never climb too much higher, but I am very happy with where we are in both tables. Seriously happy!
We shouldn't worry about whether we are a big club or not. Don't understand the mentality of those that worry about it. We are Brighton and Hove Albion and that's all that matters.
Completely this. I don't get the 'big club' obsession. Irrelevant label.
ferring seagull
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- Dec 30, 2010
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Why would we need to ?