RM-Taylor
He's Magic.... You Know
- Jan 7, 2006
- 15,272
Bournemouth signed Brooks from Sheff Utd in the summer for near enough £10 million. How would our fans have reacted if we spent that on a player who had played one season in the Championship
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[Albion] Paul Winstanley
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Bournemouth signed Brooks from Sheff Utd in the summer for near enough £10 million. How would our fans have reacted if we spent that on a player who had played one season in the Championship
Very harsh IMO. He’s made some cracking signings in Gross, Ryan, Bernardo, Izquierdo etc and doesn’t deserve the criticism given. We’ve always as a club struggled to sign a decent attacker, hence signing Murray coming back has been our best attacking signing. It’s hard at this level to sign a top striker for anywhere under £25M which we have tried to do. If by a miracle we stay up, hopefully the club will clear out the trash and finally spend the money to keep us where we belong.
Javeaseagull
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- Feb 22, 2014
- 2,489
This is a long term project for TB I believe and he is not going to have any knee-jerk reactions over recent results. He is building an enterprise that will be self-sustaining and not need his constant subsidies. I hope.
martin tyler
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- Jan 25, 2013
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He was clearly very talented and going places and 7 goals and 5 assists is a great return from 28 league games he’s played shows you can pick up better players from the leagues below that what you spend on some players abroad. £14 million on Locadia or £18 million on AJ looks pretty poor business by comparison.
You have this the wrong way around. Hughton wouldn’t play attacking football if we signed Messi, Suarez and Bale.
The squad we have is OK. Not great for the Premier League, but it is OK. Certainly good enough to stay up. It’s the guy that gives the instructions that is the problem.
Do you think Solly March wants to pick up the ball on the wing, check back, pass it to Stephens, for him to pass it back to Duffy (or to nobody at all and out of play) for him to pass it to Ryan? Of course he doesn’t. Propper plays the number 10 role for Holland and has scored more goals for them than he has for us. Do you think he wants to play as a dreary centre midfielder that doesn’t shoot or create chances?
We have the players to compete. Look at Cardiff’s line up tonight. Woeful.
With a decent manager in charge we would have been safe weeks ago.
Albion Dan
Banned
We have failed to sign any leaders to replace the old guard that led the team. Bruno, Sidwell, Rosenior all played a huge part in the mental strength of our championship match day squad and I look at our starting 11 since xmas and wonder who on earth has the cojones to drive the team forward. Duffy at best. Dunk looked like he was going to get at one point tonight. We have signed the softest bunch if melts in history.
driller
my life my word
A couple, a couple!;
I give you donkeys
Jahanbasch
Locadia
Balogen
Dare I say apart from a couple of games last year izcardo
Seriously how good ; ( or not upto it??) Propper
Pin eyes Montoya?
Never in position but let’s say raw talent Bissouma
Andone - possible Ok
Bernado one possible shining light.
I say recruitment take a long hard look at yourselves
SollysLeftFoot
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No one was questioning our signings when we were almost in the top 10 by December.
It's astonishing that so many rather blame the signings than the manager.
It's astonishing that so many rather blame the signings than the manager.
Wouldn’t you just love Barnes and Wood upfront too.
Really? One-paced and not even as good as Glenn. Talk about clutching at straws.
Bwian
Kiss my (_!_)
- Jul 14, 2003
- 15,898
If you have a decent recruitment team and they are not obsessed with looking for the next 'unknown' star player in the Dutch equivalent of The Championship I would have been happy. Sometimes clubs take a risk with players like Brooks and Vardy. Players that are used to English football. Not recruiting in January, when everybody knew that we needed a goal scorer and midfielder, has proven to be costly.
Now is a good time to reinvent The Albion. Starting with team management and coaching. Ashworth should be working on the recruitment side of things-if he sticks around that is. We just need somebody running the first team who isn't afraid of his own shadow.
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Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,138
This, all day long. Both of them consistently banging in goals at this level.
What would be the point in wasting so much money.
Salah wouldn't get in our team ahead of Murrayoffside, and any new singing, for a position that already has a 'favourite' playing in, has to wait 4 months for a 10 minute substitute appearance.
Bwian
Kiss my (_!_)
- Jul 14, 2003
- 15,898
We were almost in the top 10 in December thanks to some unexpected flukey wins. We were nowhere near as good as that position suggested. Well clear of relegation, going along ok-ish, then Hughton puts on the brakes with both feet and tells everybody " just don't lose'. For good measure he took out all the forward gears and applied the parking brake.
How does Dunk go from playing for England to looking Non League in a few months?
Bye Bye Hughton.
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drummerboy10
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- Apr 18, 2012
- 155
Plenty of poor excuses from everyone on here. The main point as mentioned before is we’ve got the team/squad to be safe this year and we’ve underachieved through poor tactics and game management.
Blame the new signings all you want but time and time again we fail to get the best out of these players when they come to Brighton. Propper for example has scored 1 goal in 64 games!
Blame the new signings all you want but time and time again we fail to get the best out of these players when they come to Brighton. Propper for example has scored 1 goal in 64 games!
jamie the seagull
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- Jul 27, 2011
- 2,803
That would be the league Ajax play in.... how did they get on last night.
#HughtonOUT”
drummerboy10
Active member
- Apr 18, 2012
- 155
We don’t create chances at the moment... I feel sorry for Andone and Murray for the lack of chances they have. Constantly coming deep to get the ball moving up the pitch.
jamie the seagull
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- Jul 27, 2011
- 2,803
Nothing wrong with recruitment. Not all signings will be a hit.
But give that talent to our manager and everything is drained from them.
Bissouma goes from first choice to not even in the match day squad last night.
Our £17m CF sits on the bench whilst Duffy is sent forward.
But give that talent to our manager and everything is drained from them.
Bissouma goes from first choice to not even in the match day squad last night.
Our £17m CF sits on the bench whilst Duffy is sent forward.