DavePage
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What happens if we go uptown 6th?
When do we stop being”teams like Brighton”?
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When do we stop being”teams like Brighton”?
albionfan37
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Surely they’ll soon be saying we shouldn’t be beating #teamslikebrighton
If they’ve got any sense anyway
Spurs, Chelsea & Liverpool - so that's half of the 'Big Six'.
We'll always be 'teams like Brighton', but that meaning will change.
Poskettspurpose
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- Jun 18, 2021
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I understand your point but no two ways about it, we are still a stepping stone club. Its sometimes frustrating when ambitious young footballers dont proclaim their love for the Albion like us lifelong fans. Most (like Macca and Caceido) are professional show their dedication to the sport and just get on with their job. Tross comes across as very arrogant like a few other very talented elite professional footballers. I think the real bellend is his agent TBH from what I've seen of his behavior.
Thanks for posting, great interview. RDZ is very very driven!!
100%
We’ll stay a stepping-stone due to a) wages and b) trophies. Can’t see us ever fully matching the ‘elite’ clubs in contract terms, and unless we somehow start regularly winning stuff and competing in the CL the clubs that do will always be above us in the pecking order and will continue to pillage our staff.
On the plus side, the number of clubs in that position continues to shrink - now little more than a handful. Don’t see many more examples like gobby Villa fans thinking they’re going to poach Bissouma from us.
That domain is still available if anyone wants to have some fun at Chelsea's expense...
brightn'ove
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damn it is tempting to buy that domain and just set up a redirect to www.chelseafc.com
...or have a simple one-page site where the user is asked to enter a name and the site will return whether Chelsea are going to buy the player or not.
The site always returns something like: probably, almost certainly, he's on the list, of course, only if Arsenal are trying to, you can never have enough players etc etc
5Ways Gull
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Straight swap for Colwill? Colwill plus cash?
- May 8, 2018
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Seems to be a lack of training ground social media from the club this week which suggests he’s still in isolation if there at all
nicko31
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Tross's values has definitely taken a hit, but we don't want negativity in the camp
brightn'ove
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mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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Slightly off topic but I'm watching the 4-part Transfer Deadline Day documentary on Sky at the moment. Basically it follows a few players and their agents during the Summer '22 transfer window. Really interesting to see all the steps happening WAY before A club even dares to consider contacting the selling club. The agents are acting as the mediator/middleman and sourcing buying clubs and chatting with them away before an offer is made. In one clip, the agent of a player was communicating to the selling club the offer a buying club was thinking of making and being told it wasn't going to happen. Just goes to show how done the days are of "A club can't speak to a player until they have made an offer first". The contracts etc are agreed WAY before that.
Chances are with Trossard that clubs will already have 'agreed' terms in principle with/agent way before we hear about any sort of bids being made.
Worth giving the programme a watch. In some case it's really nice to see an agent actively telling their client to not choose the best financial offer but to think about which club is best for their career/playing time.
In other cases, it'll just add to hatred towards agents.
And for fans of Championship Manager, Cherno Samba is featured as one of the agents.
Chances are with Trossard that clubs will already have 'agreed' terms in principle with/agent way before we hear about any sort of bids being made.
Worth giving the programme a watch. In some case it's really nice to see an agent actively telling their client to not choose the best financial offer but to think about which club is best for their career/playing time.
In other cases, it'll just add to hatred towards agents.
And for fans of Championship Manager, Cherno Samba is featured as one of the agents.
This kind of adds fuel to the fire that clubs are interested in trossand will pay him a nice wedge... just not interested enough to pay much money to Brighton for him.
Cue the crying like a bitch from trossypoos.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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Exactly. As an agent if you can agree terms with the player you can immediately then push the rhetoric of "well, we have done EVERYTHING we can, it's just your club being unreasonable and not accepting an offer yet".
Cue player getting more aggy at his club and kicking off, feeling a great injustice has been done. I guess once you have that bigger wage agreed with another club you are sitting there on rightmove working out what your new house in London is going to be.
Well, it is probably technically true in a lot of cases - but nothing stopping clubs from speaking with the agencies, just the player directly (though surely that happens as well).
It is indeed the players market these days but for a 100 years it wasn't and that was equally bad. Slavelike conditions until 1963 and then absurd ones until 1995.
Player power won't decrease until there is some sort of salary cap which seems far away.