Rival watch

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Dier Hard said:
I’m assuming you’re accounting for total signings in that with regards to first team, development and youth signings(?). If by a few seasons you mean three, then we’ve brought in 33 total players ourselves (so long as I’ve counted correctly!).

Edit: just noticed you’ve stretched back to 2018-19 with your reply to CK. So we’ll have definitely signed a similar amount, probably more.
Also, you’ve referenced Transfermarkt as your source, just an FYI, they include loan returns as incomings, not sure if your figure has included them or not, if not then disregard.
Their one in four hit rate in that period still far eclipses ours though, as since 18/19, I’d struggle to name more than 5 successful signings in what is probably over 40+ incomings, I think I’d struggle to even name 5 to be honest.
Click to expand...
I've counted only the ones on Transfermarkt that were actual signings, not loans. Doing it the same way for Spurs gives 22 signings over that period.
My point is that if you sign lots of average players and get lucky, some will be better than average. Unless this continues for several more years it doesn't prove anything. Indeed if I went back twice as far I think it would look much worse.
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
City also have the advantage of being able to play an exceptionally high line with Walker.
Not many teams have the ludicrous pace and physicality of a sweeper right-back.
He's not as technically good as their other options, but he does give them a great option.

We should definitely consider taking Cancelo off their hands, though.
Click to expand...
Laporte's name keeps coming up, which is encouraging - after all, buying a bunch of Sheikh Mansour Team rejects guarantees you second place these days...
 
PowerSpurs said:
I've counted only the ones on Transfermarkt that were actual signings, not loans. Doing it the same way for Spurs gives 22 signings over that period.
My point is that if you sign lots of average players and get lucky, some will be better than average. Unless this continues for several more years it doesn't prove anything. Indeed if I went back twice as far I think it would look much worse.
Click to expand...

It's missed off a number of our developmental signings yet included a number of Brighton's though, for instance Ashcroft, Keeley and Soonsup-Bell aren't included in our signings this season. The only reason I can presume they've been missed off is that they went straight into the reserves and not immediately loaned out which many of Brighton's do, they're similar ages to some of Brighton's and signed pro deals. It didn't include Lankshear either, albeit he was 16 at the time of signing but we paid around £2m.

It's us who have signed lots of average (and poor) players in the period being covered. If we're excluding loans, we've signed just one player that's made a genuinely successful impact and that's Bentancur, whilst Romero and Hojbjerg have been decent signings. In that same period, Brighton have had Bissouma, MacAllister, Burn, Lamptey, Trossard, Caicedo, Veltman, Cucurella, Mitoma and Estupinan. There's also subjective calls on about 3-4 others.
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Laporte's name keeps coming up, which is encouraging - after all, buying a bunch of Sheikh Mansour Team rejects guarantees you second place these days...
Click to expand...
Cancelo, Laporte and maybe Guerreiro from Dortmund on a free would sort our defence out.
Add a decent keeper or two and Skriniar, Ndicka and Bensebaini on Bosmans and we're good! <laugh>
 
Just because there's been a lot of discussion about data analytics:
You must log in or register to see media

Ok, I also posted it so that Spurcat could have a meltdown about Chappers.
Looking like a homeless Klopp is definitely a choice, I guess...
 
  • Like
Reactions: maggie blanchflower
Alfie Conn said:
Buonanotte 18 yrs old , the kid looks good and as I type another teenager Enciso scores a scorcher
Click to expand...

Enciso is 19
Ferguson is 18
Van Hecke is 22
Caicedo is 21
Colwill is 20, although he is on loan from the blue scum.
Ayari is 19
Peupion is 20

What a time to be a Brighton fan. Almost relegated from League 1 in 2009. Then Bloom took over. Now in the PL top 6 and Europe.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Alfie Conn
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back