[Albion] Will we sign a PL ready striker by the close of the window?

[midnight_rendezvous]

Name some names of these elusive 'premier league ready' strikers then (I mean those that are likely to be available!)

I’ve never understood this sort of rebuttal. Is being a football scout on the side now a prerequisite before being able to comment on the limited striking options we have?

 

[Knocky's Nose]

If we are signing someone, I doubt we'll know about it until it happens...

Uncle Tony will be on it, and if there's anyone who'll fit he'll already be drawing up the paperwork and asking for a receipt.

 

[A1X]

Yes. He'll then score 35 goals for USG when we loan them out there.

 

[Driver8]

Naylor says very unlikely.

https://twitter.com/andynaylorbhafc/status/1565320949364293633?s=21&t=RxzUt_3hyQTRNsoOSBJYcQ

 

[boik]

I’ve never understood this sort of rebuttal. Is being a football scout on the side now a prerequisite before being able to comment on the limited striking options we have?

Well I think it's ok to call out people who demand the impossible and then continually moaning when they don't get it.

"Name them" is short hand for, it's almost impossible for you to get what you demand.

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

Well I think it's ok to call out people who demand the impossible and then continually moaning when they don't get it.

"Name them" is short hand for, it's almost impossible for you to get what you demand.

Just seems like an attempt to deflect valid concerns to me. And are people demanding the impossible? I’m not seeing people demanding to sign a £50m striker, only to add to our options. And considering our current options are an injury prone Welbeck, a completely unproven Undav and a 17 year old Ferguson, I think people are right to feel a sense of frustration and trepidation at not bringing in reinforcements, especially after the sale of our top scorer of the past two seasons.

 

[drew]

So I asked for names and we get Pukki (relegated twice with Norwich, 22 goals in two seasons), Wood (52 in 4 1/2 season) and Weghorst (2 goals in 17 appearances).

Clearly some have differing views as to what exactly is a Premier League ready striker!!!

 

[ukpolska]

The trouble is that it is all so easy to get carried away and forget who Brighton are. Each year they try and bat above their wicket and are having some success against the top teams, but most of that is done through careful budgeting of what they can afford and more importantly what they can offer the incoming players.

Brighton hasn’t got the budget of the bigger teams so they have to look for players that will accept a lower wage for playing in the premier league and most of those players, like it or lump it will look at Brighton as a stepping stone to the bigger clubs.

Brighton posted losses of over £270 million in their four completed seasons as a topflight club. That put them into the top 10 loss-making clubs in Premier League history, and they are still recovering from that plus Covid didn’t exactly help the situation either.

It is also worth mentioning the total investment of Bloom in Brighton. In 2020-21, he lent the club a further £33 million, taking the total amount he is owed by Brighton to nearly £427 million. Although he has publically said that doesn’t need all of that to be repaid, we hope.

The point is that Brighton cannot command the same attraction as larger clubs do, which forces them to look in far-off lands like South America, where they can snap up bargains on promising young players, but they will still need time to develop and will always keep in the back of their mind that they will think of Brighton a route to the bigger teams that pay more wages.

I really hope that there is a time in my lifetime that players will want to join Brighton for the prestige of playing for the club as they will be a successful club paying decent wages.

We can only dream

 

[Clive Walker]

So I asked for names and we get Pukki (relegated twice with Norwich, 22 goals in two seasons), Wood (52 in 4 1/2 season) and Weghorst (2 goals in 17 appearances).

Clearly some have differing views as to what exactly is a Premier League ready striker!!!

the obvious response is that those players played in very ordinary teams. We play a different brand which means we keep the ball, win it back quickly and create opportunities. We just don't seem to have someone who can put it in the onion bag. I would predicts that any of those players listed would do much better statistically if they were in an Brighton shirt.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Just seems like an attempt to deflect valid concerns to me. And are people demanding the impossible? I’m not seeing people demanding to sign a £50m striker, only to add to our options. And considering our current options are an injury prone Welbeck, a completely unproven Undav and a 17 year old Ferguson, I think people are right to feel a sense of frustration and trepidation at not bringing in reinforcements, especially after the sale of our top scorer of the past two seasons.

Still reckon Andone could do a job (assuming he's not actually out the door yet). Maybe could have done a job all along, except he got banquished into exile with indecent haste following his red card v Southampton

 

[doogie004]

So I asked for names and we get Pukki (relegated twice with Norwich, 22 goals in two seasons), Wood (52 in 4 1/2 season) and Weghorst (2 goals in 17 appearances).

Clearly some have differing views as to what exactly is a Premier League ready striker!!!

I expect you were writing off mitrovic the other season as well ?


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[southstandandy]

More chance of me giving up beer!

 

[Clive Walker]

Thinking about it another way I can't see why strikers aren't queuing up to join us with the amount of chances we create.

 

[b.w.2.]

What percentage do you think, roughly, of your 4.8k posts are about needing a stiker?

It's gotta be 90%+ right? Has to be

I am aiming for a minimum 95%


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[b.w.2.]

That makes no sense.

No one is going to be wound up by us signing a striker.

Oh, I don’t know…


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[PILTDOWN MAN]

The trouble is that it is all so easy to get carried away and forget who Brighton are. Each year they try and bat above their wicket and are having some success against the top teams, but most of that is done through careful budgeting of what they can afford and more importantly what they can offer the incoming players.

Brighton hasn’t got the budget of the bigger teams so they have to look for players that will accept a lower wage for playing in the premier league and most of those players, like it or lump it will look at Brighton as a stepping stone to the bigger clubs.

Brighton posted losses of over £270 million in their four completed seasons as a topflight club. That put them into the top 10 loss-making clubs in Premier League history, and they are still recovering from that plus Covid didn’t exactly help the situation either.

It is also worth mentioning the total investment of Bloom in Brighton. In 2020-21, he lent the club a further £33 million, taking the total amount he is owed by Brighton to nearly £427 million. Although he has publically said that doesn’t need all of that to be repaid, we hope.

The point is that Brighton cannot command the same attraction as larger clubs do, which forces them to look in far-off lands like South America, where they can snap up bargains on promising young players, but they will still need time to develop and will always keep in the back of their mind that they will think of Brighton a route to the bigger teams that pay more wages.

I really hope that there is a time in my lifetime that players will want to join Brighton for the prestige of playing for the club as they will be a successful club paying decent wages.

We can only dream

You've used one side of accounting then the other and tried to balance it with a final figure. Accounting losses are not the same as real term spend. Yes he injected money into his business and from an accounting point of view the losses are on the balance sheet. Off setting assets costs show as a negative, they remain though, an asset.

Yes there were some losses that he has financed, 270m(as a loss) he has not.

 

[b.w.2.]

Last summer he informed me of the inevitable doom if we didn't sign one and pointed to Burnley as an example of a team with the right number and quality of strikers.

Yes, maybe not the best example as teams can only be measured by their strikers and no other players on the pitch matter


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[b.w.2.]

Bloody hell, last year when we were headed south and GP was, in my humble opinion, perisisting with the wrong selection, I reluctantly voted Potter out on these polls. But, now we have had a great start to the season and GP is slowly building something, and you're having a crack at the people in charge. Might you just be wrong?

I didn’t say he was doing a bad job. He is obviously doing a brilliant one. I never voted or suggested Potter out ever


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[Clive Walker]

Yes, maybe not the best example as teams can only be measured by their strikers and no other players on the pitch matter


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I'd pay Ashley Barnes' wages myself right now if he were to join!

 

[b.w.2.]

I'd pay Ashley Barnes' wages myself right now if he were to join!

Lol


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