Even if the stats were accurate, which they are not, I'd sooner sign 40 unknown Ecuadorians for £1.5m each than one Richarlison.
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.
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...
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.
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!
Just because there's been a lot of discussion about data analytics: 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...
Watching the BHA MC game both teams subbing youth with youth ,so good to see , here's hoping for the future
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.
Scouted at Club Libertad in the Paraguayan Primera Division. No idea how they managed that. Can't be much betting going on there.
I doubt we'd ever sign someone like that. Our scouting team probably don't know where Paraguay is tbh.
