But don't worry at least we'll have the parachute payments to look forward to and cushion the blow of relegation.
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But don't worry at least we'll have the parachute payments to look forward to and cushion the blow of relegation.
I can't.
Wagner's Hyypia-esque formation may have got them over the line in the Championship but they finished -36 GD behind us relying on countless single goal margin victories. They may have improved by 5% or 10% but they'd need a squad like Everton's or Spurs' to score the goals they'll need to stay in the top flight with the system they play. What's more, CH will have worked them out for next season and we'll take 6 points off them, easy!
A tenner to REMF says we don't. Up for it?
I'd say Gross and Ryan are improvements.
That's it at this stage. When we're about to play in arguably the highest standard of league football on the globe.
SeagullinExile
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Your right! Yes.
But lets have faith in the wonderful team that took where we are now eh? I'm confident we will ruffle a few feathers. We won't do a Leicester, but we will have enough to stay up imo. And we will sign new faces...be patient.
If you wanna continue with the negative stuff then fine. But why don't you just enjoy the ride with the rest of us (well, most of us).?
Eggman
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Christ man. Give it a rest.
Sure!
You're on then. And REMF will win whatever the result, which will be great.
If we were more prepared I wouldn't be so negative but it's hard to be positive based on our transfer dealings so far. Hopefully I'll be eating a large dose of humble pie before 1 Sept.
Sorry if it sounded otherwise.
SeagullinExile
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I think were shaping up nicely tbh. We don't need any billy big bollocks signings to make me happy. Just the right players.
And like i said, more signings WILL come. I have absolute faith in our recruitment team.
If Bournemouth can do it, so can we.
Just chill a little.
rocker959
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Don't they make you sick . Miserable doom and gloom merchants .
Exactly. I look forward to you swelling the REMF coffers come April 7th.
luppers
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Yes they do. Trouble is it is not a new thing, I have supported Brighton since 1953 and even then although the was no website if you stood as I did in the North Stand at the Goldstone you would hear the same comments
PurpleCanary
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- Apr 4, 2015
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I am not making an envious or antagonistic point here. It is just that I take an interest in foorball finance. If Brighton, having made a loss of £30m in the 2015-16 season, made any kind of substantial loss last season, getting promoted, then by my reckoning (this may not be right, of course) you will have broken Championship financial fair play rules, given that the limit is £39m over three seasons. As your owner said back then, referring to that £30m shortfall:
"Any Championship club without parachute payments wishing to compete for promotion will inevitably make significant losses." That sounds like an admission that he was willing to take the kind of rule-breaking risk QPR and Bournemouth, to name two, made to get to the Premier League.
Against that, based on what I have read here about your transfer activity so far, the club does not yet seem to have pushed the boat out, in terms of fees or - more importantly - wages.
NSC's football finance expert and the club have indicated that we have remained within the rules, I think there's a rolling three year cumulative total of losses. You also have to remember that within accounts costs, some elements might be treated differently by the Football League for example the depreciation of infrastructure.
Unlike QPR, Bournemouth and Leicester who all blatantly broke FFP to buy promotion.
A lot of other clubs such as Wednesday, Hull, Villa, M'boro, Fulham, Bristol,City and Derby have gone down the same road as Brighton of allowing huge losses in their bids for the PL.
The_Viper
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Giving an opinion isn't wetting the bed. People need to get over the fact that not everybody is in one big hive mind. Some of us want improvements to the squad, some of us think we're all good with what we have.
I don't think that Brighton in the last couple of years have tried to batter down the doors of the PL by spending vast amounts of monies on salaries and Transfer fees like many other clubs have done around them. The difficulty has more been that the playing staff at the club 3 years ago was so bad that it was very difficult to get any sort of fee for the players we wanted rid of when trying to revamp, that made it more difficult to balance things and even then I think the club are on course to stay within FFP Regulations