[Albion] Why now?

[beorhthelm]

partly money available, partly to correct mistake of not buying in last season.

 

[Professor Plum]

Pure speculation on my part…..

I think we all realised how magical, and profitable, it was to be involved in European football, and the management has gone all out to have a second helping. At the same time, realised that trying to compete in Europe and PL needs a bigger and stronger squad.

And just possibly to stick 2 fingers up at Roberto! (No, Tony isn’t that frivolous.)

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

The reason is that a load of PL clubs are financially restrained due to FFPS. So when they are cash limited, there is value out there. Uncle Tony saw this and responded accordingly. Genius and some!

Top 6 here we come!


TNBA

TTF

 

[brighton_tom]

Backing a new manager, and spending money we maybe should have last summer.

Transfers in;
Minteh £30-33m
Wieffer £25m
Gruda £25m
Yalcouye £6m
ACD Free

Transfers out;
Undav £25m plus add ons
Gross £8-10m
Leonard £500,000
Kozlowski Undisclosed

So net spend so far is around £50m. We might spend further with Kadioglu and O'Riley rumoured, but we could also sell players like Sima, Gilmour, Moder, Sarmiento, Dahoud, Igor, or Lamptey to help keep the net spend down.

 

[trueblue]

I think the stars have aligned in terms of our profits and other clubs’ financial issues. Also, we’re now able to land bigger players as the club’s reputation has grown and the pathway is proven.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

We can lose an average of £35m a year, 105m over three years. Last year we made a profit of £120m. If we don't spend it we lose it, in two more years that profit will fall off the PSR books and won't be available to use to buy players even if still sitting in the bank. So it needs to be spent.

 

[The Optimist]

Have we actually spent much more this summer than last summer? Some big purchases last summer in Pedro and Baleba plus Bart and Igor for reasonable fees.

I’d say last summer and this is us spending some of what we’ve brought in from our big sales.

 

[saafend_seagull]

Net spend would be around £110m after this so for sure one of adingra/pedro/ferguson are off. As long as it’s not the middle one !

 

[US Seagull]

A lot of people think Tony Bloom is a gambler. And as such, he'll take risks. These people are wrong. Tony is  not a gambler.

Tony is a professional gambler. And you don't get to be a successful professional gambler by taking risks. You get it by minimizing or mitigating risks and understanding when the odds are in your favor. That's when you place big bets.

So it Tony is putting chips on the table, you better believe that the odds are in his favor.

A big part of what, I think, has moved the odds is concerns over PSR that has weakened other clubs bargaining power and left an opening for us to make some big moves with less risk of missing out to other "big" clubs.

All in all, it's a very exciting time to be a Brighton fan. We are going to be the dark horse this season...

 

[huzzah]

(mystic meg time)
* Man City getting a 50 point deduction
* Liverpool, have a new boss and no money to spend (judging by them not spending)
* The toon project being a disappointment
* Villa getting overstretched by CL
* Chelsea being a sh!t show
* Ten haag sacked in November
* Tottenham being Tottenham

that just leaves us against recent chokers Arsenal in the race for the title! (imagining, of course, that all the other clubs don't exist)

I've only gone and jinxed it ... Sorry big Tone

 

[Flounce]

I am more surprised at how we are buying such expensive players to fit a manager who has absolutely no record of managing at the top level. Genuinely.

 

[dazzer6666]

It’s just the continuation of our strategy. To get/stay in the PL we could buy players at in the (say) 5-20m range, and either turn them into solid PL players or sell them on for big bucks. We’re still the same now but buying more developed players as well, but most still have significant headroom for development and the potential to be sold on for even bigger bucks. We can do this precisely because of our success in doing it already, plus being extremely clever with timing.

We’re not buying players to ’fit a manager’. We’ve recruited a manager who hopefully fits the club/strategy.

 

[Baldrick]

Why has Tony spent so much money this transfer window? All the years he’s own the club he’s been very clever getting a huge bang for his buck. Why is he now spending such large sums or giving the club the green light to spend its treasure chest? Eighth year in the premier league, usually the big spending goes into the squad keeping you up.

Amortisation.

We have had two years of big profits. We can now buy higher priced players and spread the cost over the length of their contracts.

 

[dazzer6666]

Net spend would be around £110m after this so for sure one of adingra/pedro/ferguson are off. As long as it’s not the middle one !

Yep……..lower than last year’s profit, which didn’t include the Caicedo sale. Incredibly clever management over several years has left the club in a fantastic position, coincidentally just as several others are in the deep do-do.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

The change next year to squad cost control from PSR will mean spends capped for player purchases and wages as a % of turnover. I assume we will be hit as we have a lower turnover than the big boys. We need to spend the money now and assume we are maybe paying lower wages for the new intake as well

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I am more surprised at how we are buying such expensive players to fit a manager who has absolutely no record of managing at the top level. Genuinely.

Look at it a different way. If the manager is shit at least we'll have good enough players to keep us up. Imagine if the new manager is rubbish AND we hadn't invested in decent players. Shudder.

 

[bluenitsuj]

Why not?

 

[Deadly Danson]

Net spend would be around £110m after this so for sure one of adingra/pedro/ferguson are off. As long as it’s not the middle one !

For sure? Unlikely but not impossible. As others have said, if we get £20m odd for Gilmour and a good few million for the likes of Sima, Dahoud, Moder, Lampety etc then it's not as dramatic as it looks.

 

[MJsGhost]

The change next year to squad cost control from PSR will mean spends capped for player purchases and wages as a % of turnover. I assume we will be hit as we have a lower turnover than the big boys. We need to spend the money now and assume we are maybe paying lower wages for the new intake as well

I'd be surprised if there wasn't something in those new rules that allows spending beyond just a simple percentage of turnover if a club makes a profit.
Maybe add the amount of profit to the budget set by the percentage of TO. It would be bonkers if a club making profit wasn't allowed to spend it however they wanted.
(Obviously, making a profit doesn't happen often in football)

 

[Flounce]

Look at it a different way. If the manager is shit at least we'll have good enough players to keep us up. Imagine if the new manager is rubbish AND we hadn't invested in decent players. Shudder.

True, I think the in house club target could well be top 4 this season