Chelsea have already tried.Can you sign a club's entire football operation structure?
Chelsea have already tried.
They’ve done that a few times already too…The way they sign players, I'm sure the next logical step is they attempt to buy a league
Was only a few years ago we were held up as a financial model to aspire to but astute financial management isn't trophies and I hate to be curmudgeonly but, after seeing how our fans appear to be desperate gamblers, and how sound financial management means dick without tin.
Give it a couple of years, a few unfortunate managerial appointments or signings, doesn't matter how well run the club is, fans will gripe.
There’s definitely going to be a ceiling to what they can achieve imo. It’s all good and well taking punts on cheap players from abroad but that can only take you so far. It’s low risk for decent reward right now. They’re going to start seeing those better players picked off by bigger teams, we took Bissouma from them last year and he was immediately replaced by Caicedo. How many times can they realistically do that? Mac Allister seems to be the next to go, Caicedo too maybe.I think Brighton have done really well. As others have said, so have other teams for a period of time.
However, one of the hardest jobs in football is to enter the very top tier without being financially doped. Will Brighton be able to overcome their small fanbase, small stadium and lack of global exposure to really break into the Top 4 (or 6 depending on how many we are counting now)?
That step up when selling clubs start to want top dollar for their players and only want to buy your cast-offs for a pittance, make maintaining the success of Brighton (and before them Saints, Swansea etc) really tough. They have to get everything 100% correct as the margin of error is so small - see SCBS now.
We are the only team I can think of who have managed to make/maintain that jump without being financially doped. Everton, Villa and West Ham haven't been able to do so yet and I'm not sure they will be - maybe Villa could if they can build the team, the infrastructure and the worldwide fanbase. The new stadium, the London base (with all the "tourists" it brings) and perhaps being the only Hotspur have all helped but even with that we've struggled to really compete at the very top.
I think there is a limit to what Brighton can achieve but I guess time will tell.
His facial hair fucks me off as well, and has got progressively worse over the years.I have an inherent dislike of De Zerbi.
Any middle-aged man with heavily gelled, spiky hair is a wrongun for me!