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Mills seems to be representative of a group of pundits who want to define themselves as straight talking by sneering at modernity and analysis. There's quite a few dunces on the internet who pleasure in using the term 'football hipster' and see Brighton and particularly Graham Potter as an easy target for this. 'Results are all that matter' is their repeated mantra, never giving a moment's consideration to the medium and long term methods that clubs use in pursuit of those results. 'Bissouma's a decent player and should go to a higher level' they say, as if he appeared fully formed as a top level player and wasn't scouted playing for a Lille side who were nearly relegated, coached and carefully developed to help him reach his current levels. Sneering at people who know about foreign leagues is a smoke screen for their own ignorance and laziness. If you want to earn a living by giving your opinion on football, but don't want to bother doing any homework, then saying that the things that you don't know about are irrelevant is a very convenient argument.
The team that we put out last night was very young, but any pundit willing to do their homework could tell you with five minutes research that Brighton had invested a combined figure of around £40 million in signing just four of those youngsters, or that the starting eleven had five full internationals (Karbownik, Moder, Caicedo, Mwepu & Alzate), and six age group internationals (Steele - Ex England U21, Roberts - England U18, Tsoungui - Belgium U18, Leonard - Scotland U19, Roberts England U17, Zeqiri - Switzerland U21). Two of the three subs have also already been called up by Ireland U19s. Brighton are making an investment in international youth players that those who know about overseas leagues frequently comment on with admiration ("What does Tim Vickery know? Football Hipster!") It's a testament to the work being done by the scouts, coaches and recruitment team at the club that we are competing with the big boys for the signatures of some of the best players at all age group levels and have reached the point where we can put out a second string with the amount of potential shown last night, whilst also performing very well in EPL2, loaning out other prospects, and seeing sold-on academy graduates scoring goals elsewhere (Well done Danny Cashman). There is potentially a very interesting story there for anyone who has an interest in football that stretches beyond the money that can be made from pontificating on it with ill-deserved confidence. Sorry Danny, you were saying about results being all that matter.....
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