Saudi taking some really top players now osimhen for example. Europe's rules are going to cause their own downfall eventually. Nice play.
Nowt funny about. When we are in 12th place come Xmas, you'll be positively crying. Brighton have spent £225M in this transfer window......Brighton who were good to start with. Howe is gone by Xmas as I have said before
Err, no. I don't recall Bruce (or Rafa) finishing 4th and getting us into CL. You mean Howe will have done as badly (in his worst season) as Bruce (in Bruce's best season). IF that happens. Nice try, but fail.
No he wouldn't have. He never got CL or a cup final so you can go stick that in your crack pipe and light it.
But haven't Brighton sold around £350m in the past two years? They've got 3 right wingers, so not sure how that works. They're just this years main emerging threat - but next Summer will be back on the sale trail. Thanks to our revenues and size, we haven't needed to sell any of our £100m players. I think it's genuinely and objectively hard to call. If you get Pope, Livramento (Trippier), Schar, Botman (Burn), Hall (Kelly), Bruno (Miley), Tonali (Longstaff), Joelinton, Gordon, Barnes (Willock) and Isak (Wilson) with those in brackets rotating now and again it's a decent side. Obviously we'll still have crap like Almiron, Murphy, Krafth as an emergency but that's 21 players, which is enough to do well particularly without Europe. Maybe give minutes to A. Murphy, Sanusi, Harrison, Pivas. Fit, firing and with better tactics/fitness, that team can attack (maybe not reach) 5th or 6th. Do I think the business we've done is good? Nope, been the worst window I've seen for a while and hit harder because of the quotes from the CEO and all the commercial effort from pre-season, adidas, SELA, UCL matches, etc. The firesale end of June was a disaster, more in terms of PR, particularly how it was supposed to be the end of a problematic financial era. We were told from all corners that we'd have around £100m to spend and by all accounts actually do, so how have we been unable to identify a single player better than Murphy, Almiron, Krafth, etc. - makes no sense. However, I am also - at risk of repetition - of the mind that Howe is indeed on his last legs. I don't think last season was highly regarded, and why I think Staveley was pushed out. I think there was a lot to question about the lack of rotation or trust in Ashworth's signings, the sheer scale of injuries, and some of the very odd capitulisations vs AC Milan, Forest, Bournemouth and a host of others. We have not started this season well and I think things have to improve significantly, and quickly. Howe appears reluctant to just bring in bodies and is happiest being under the radar and quiet in his work - but the Saudi's like shiny things and positive headlines, noise and glamour. It's in their oil-rich blood. So I think the best way to sum it up is that we're just at a crossroads and it's probably unlikely that Howe will be deciding which turn we take next.
Eddie's obsession with buying British has cost us this window. If he were flexible, we'd have a CB in now and a RW. He'll argue RW is sorted though as he loves Miggy despite him having a shocker last year.
