He is, but specifically about our three biggest signings; Izquierdo, Ali J and Locadia who he rightly argues have under-delivered this season.
The team that recruited these three players, one of whom had an impressive first season, also recruited Knockaert, Duffy, Ryan, Gross, Murray...
the Deloitte Football Money League compiles this list based on revenue only.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deloitte_Football_Money_League#2019
Brighton were 29th in 2017/18. Not sure one years income is the only factor to determine "richness" given our outgoings, wages, amortisation, debts but...
PS: Their results have improved dramatically since Ralph arrived and he has ultimately kept them up. But they still lost to Cardiff twice :)
But Bozza right to call me out for being churlish.
Southampton this season have 3 more points than the Albion and have won the same number of games. Ralph, like Chris , has also seen em lose twice to Cardiff.
Fair enough. Giving up on Hughton after 6 games and thus missing the last 4 and a half seasons of 89 points, 93 points, promotion, Wembley and 2 seasons in the Prem league because “he won’t change “ is quite the protest.
Yep but Given that Bloom/barber have hired a new Director of Football (also responsible for recruitment) then you’d imagine there will be changes behind the scenes. It will be more interesting if there weren’t. As for all the other teams -
Burnley, Bournemouth , Newcastle, palace all currently...
You can be unhappy or frustrated with 2019, agree it’s been “woeful” , think some posters are wrong about how to fix it but still make a very strong case to keep the manager as a fair few on here have.
So you were fed up with Hughton after 6 games in Feb 2015 and gave up your season ticket that March 2015 because "it would frustrate me immensely to watch the Albion play like that every week.".
Blimey. Oh well.
Whats the argument ? I think its just perspective for what we're likely to achieve given our outlay which is fair enough. We're also in only our 2nd season in the league which is a factor.
Yes Icy but we were talking about miracles and wages. We can probably conclude that our wages is similar to last season. So is staying in the league a "miracle" ? (like Rafa)