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Yes, the article was whether a supposed small club could break into the elite. Most of the replies on this thread didn't address that in any way though - they addressed whether we would "do a Southampton", ie fall from upper mid-table comfort and flirt with relegation to the Championship. It's...

Right. But some of the earlier replies essentially say "What's happened to Southampton won't happen to us. Because Tony Bloom." And, even though I'm a natural optimist and bullish on our prospects, that doesn't extend to believing we are now set for long-term glory in the upper reaches of the...

Agreed. And I'm not sure anyone here will suggest we don't have a significant advantage in that regard. But I'm not sure that is sufficient for me to believe with absolute surety that we're not capable of having a reversal of fortune at some point. For all but the biggest of clubs, it's always...

That's not talking about the ultimate outcome, ie "will Brighton fade in the near future" it's about whether a small club can break into the ranks of the elite "with a flurry of academy players...and/or by creating the shrewdest recruitment network". Southampton didn't break into the ranks of...

I'm not sure it's denial, more confidence/complacency. But let me step back a bit. I didn't post a snippet from, and link to, the article because I agreed with it, nor was it just clickbait. The comparison with Southampton of a few years back - pick up cheap prospects, polish them up and sell...

"We are seeing almost the exact same thing happening at Brighton right now. The highly respected head coach Graham Potter poached by Chelsea. The decimation of a playing squad that, for even the most fleeting of periods, looked as though it could make even the tiniest dent in the Big Six...