As somebody above said, we spent over £80 million last Summer. How much do you think we should have spent? £100 million? £150 million?
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[Albion] RDZ Post Match Brentford
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- Aug 8, 2005
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I agree, I think that is a good summary.
I did however find it interesting in a previous interview on Talksport that PB said Roberto had only spoken to Tony Bloom twice about the January transfer window but had spoken to PB 100 times! I suspect RDZ would like to hear a bit more from the horses mouth, and maybe after a good session with Uncle Tony he feels better about life. That isn't a slight against PB who does a great job by the way, but if I was the manager I'd want a bit more direct access to the ultimate decision maker I think, especially if I wasn't getting the answers I wanted from PB.
I think PB is the ultimate decision maker almost all of the time in everything to do with the operational side of the club. Tony found someone he could trust to run the club, and he's just signed on for another 6 years. I'm sure you're right that RDZ probably wants a decent conversation with TB at some stage - but I think he (RDZ) is incredibly fortunate to have such easy and frequent access to the guy who basically runs the club (PB).
Overall our record is miles ahead of most clubs. No-one who does any reasonable amount of recruitment gets it right all the time, in any industry, anywhere.
I suspect he‘s found out, after speaking to TB, that Bloom and Barber are 100% aligned and the constant messages he’s been getting have been reinforced……
GT49er
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Completely agree. I would actually be quite disappointed if the club started lashing out that sort of money - it would be a drastic breakaway from the model which all of us - or nearly all of us anyway - are fully behind.
Not on one player we didn't! And I hope we don't. There may well be some FFP bargains in the summer, and with £122M profit, yes, we could theoretically write our a cheque for £50 or £60M - but those players will be on £100-£150K a week, and will expect at least the same, if not an improved contract - which is why they won't be coming to Brighton.
We might break our £30M transfer record we paid for Pedro, but not smash it altogether by doubling it!
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,321
This, completely. PBOBE allows TB to maintain a largely hands-off approach. PBOBE is clearly entrusted with implementing the over-arching strategy for the club that is set by TB
Superphil
Dismember
That was from selling Cucurella and White the wasn't it? Don't think we performed any worse last season after they had gone did we?
Who mentioned spending it on one player?
GT49er
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That was clearly the OP's point. And I completely agree with them.
There's a world of difference between spending £80M and buying an £80M player.
Clive Walker
Stand Or Fall
Sounds like people are finally realising who runs the show. Yes bloom sets the culture and strategy but barber executes it daily. Bloom never gets involved in negotiations. He trusts barber and co to do this. Barber confirmed it last year but NSC was still flooded with lizard this poker genius that during the Moises fiasco.
The strategy of the club is sacrasanct to barber and bloom. RDZ may have thought it wasn’t last year and into Jan. He does now and it sounds like he doesn’t agree with the policy completely but accepts it. The noises he’s making are more about voicing his frustration and explaining why this season is different to last.
Whether he is happy enough to stay while the club continues within these boundaries is up to him. But barber and bloom will not sway from their position and I am for one am content with that.
The idea that RDZ would like more direct convos with bloom is a new one for me but I deffo think that could be a possibility as he may wish to get his own point over to the top dog to see if he gets a different response from what barber has so far said.
The strategy of the club is sacrasanct to barber and bloom. RDZ may have thought it wasn’t last year and into Jan. He does now and it sounds like he doesn’t agree with the policy completely but accepts it. The noises he’s making are more about voicing his frustration and explaining why this season is different to last.
Whether he is happy enough to stay while the club continues within these boundaries is up to him. But barber and bloom will not sway from their position and I am for one am content with that.
The idea that RDZ would like more direct convos with bloom is a new one for me but I deffo think that could be a possibility as he may wish to get his own point over to the top dog to see if he gets a different response from what barber has so far said.
He wasn't the OP and was responding to someone else "clearly" talking about multiple transfers.
For what it's worth I agree with you too, would rather buy a 2-3 more 30-40m Pedros than chuck it all at one player.
GT49er
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I was using 'the OP' in the sense that he was the person you were replying too, but no prob.
- nothing to get worked up about. Just hope too many people don't start moaning if we don't spaff £80M plus a further £7M a year in wages on one player!
Mancgull
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Interesting and positive.
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You can’t have it both ways - we stay sustainable and on our current overall trajectory or we buy ourselves a season for maybe a European quarter final and top 6 place or we risk backsliding/losing our direction. PB and TB chose not to sacrifice the long term ethos (which has proven overwhelmingly that it is working for us) in exchange for a short term fix - and it would have been short term as we are not yet up to the sort of turnover we require to pad out the squad with a load of high maintenance players to sit on the bench if there is no room for them on the team. Give it a few more seasons, a few more European rounds, a higher place finish on the table and increased tv coverage … we will become better at absorbing injuries - we deepen our squad incrementally and in line with our income - we still operate at a loss (so do all clubs afaik, that’s top flight football) so perhaps that’s worth bearing in mind before moaning about TB’s lack of investment in January.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
When you mention signings why does everyone automatically think it’s going to be £200m 
we haven’t replaced the departed midfielders as yet and that includes the unlucky Mwepu. Take our early form run out of the equation and we would be looking over our shoulders on recent form. Two wins in half a season if everyone’s happy with that then cool I guess.
we haven’t replaced the departed midfielders as yet and that includes the unlucky Mwepu. Take our early form run out of the equation and we would be looking over our shoulders on recent form. Two wins in half a season if everyone’s happy with that then cool I guess.London Irish
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This is going to become a very boring forum if every fan who wants squad strengthening is told they are “Chelsea”. Maybe there is more than just two approaches in the entire wide world of football
Alternatively, we go through some sort of Stalinist purges to establish there's only ONE approach to football.
That would add some excitement to proceedings.
London Irish
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Arguably tho such is the reverence for the board that in the unlikely event of it ever happening, it would be accepted quite quickly - and a couple of wins in, even the verbal protests would disappearI really hope you are jesting old boy.
Quite simply the return of Potter would effectively split the fanbase.
And TB and PBOBE might be a lot of things but they aren’t stupid