Farmer Saint

Not really - he seems to be cut from the same cloth is the point.

Has Martin played it more than once? I thought he did Bournemouth but then not again.

He also played a game with no strikers, one of the big bats used to smack Martin.

Do people still use Twitter? Or is it just a rightwing echo-chamber? Just seems to be full of angry "Theitukrrjaaabss" types.

I think you've just described Western politics as a whole tbh.

Good on him!

It depends on whether decisions are just down to Ankersen or whether Manager hiring and firings are board decisions?

Ok, so I've seen this post as someone else has quoted it - however you have been on ignore (as I said you would be) since you told me that all 5-9 year olds in Gaza are fair game to be killed because they are Muslim. Frankly, I don't need to see posts from someone as morally and ethically repugnant as you. In relation to your post, let me break it down. Firstly, I never said there weren't any other possibilities - this is my opinion and has been for over a year. You have your appalling opinions, and in your opinion so do I. Secondly, you're thinking about this too simplisticly - yes it is a trait of yours - but even you should be able to see that we invested in players who we thought could do a job in the Premier League BUT would be unlikely to leave us next season if we went back down. The club probably knew that the likelihood was we'd get relegated, so why not build a strong core of players that we can use next season in the Championship - they will have played together for a season and will obviously know each others games far better. It would make us far stronger for when we come back up (not definite, but you would certainly aspire to judging by Ankersen's philosophy). They are for the most part young, and one thing we tend to know about young players is (a) they tend to be on smaller wages and (b) they tend to get better as their careers evolve. If we stayed up then great, but also if we went down we'd still be within PSR guidelines and we'd have an as strong, or stronger team than the one we got promoted with last time. Ramsdale was an exception, but we know (as does he) if we go down we will sell him and get our money back. I probably don't need to remind you that purchases are amortised over the contract years, but sales count against that year of PSR, giving us greater headroom next season when he is sold. Thirdly, just because you don't understand something doesn't make it bullshit. It just makes it something you don't understand. I won't be looking at your responses to this post - frankly I couldn't give a shiny fuck what someone like you thinks about what I post - but to me the evidence is there. Let's see what happens in January - will we be looking at young, high reward players that will stay with us in the Championship, or established Premier League/top 5 European League players? I know which ones I think we'll be purchasing.

Alright mate, we can't all be astronauts like you...

FFS, that's any credibility I had left down the fucking pan after that endorsement. Cheers pal.

I'm talking specifically about THB. He looked far better last season under RM. If he played like he has this year, last year, we wouldn't have signed him IMO (I'm aware we had to as it was tied to promotion). I'm just not convinced he's a PL defender, sorry.

But he didn't last season under the same system and manager, so I'm assuming it's the step up in quality.

They're for the Championship next season as were Archer and BBD - part of the yo-yo strategy. Cornet was because he was available and we were light in those areas.

A half decent Manager should win the League - Martin got us promoted with pretty much an equal team.

Yep, will free up a huge amount of wages (circa £100k PW) and allow us the headroom for PSR. Potential exit for ABK, Sulemana and Tall Paul.

What, like Kompany who decided not to buy him? He was good in the Championship last year using the same tactics, so what's changed this year? Oh yes, the quality of opposition.

Got to be a PL team wanting to buy him as well - don't let the fact he's been picked in the England team overshadow the fact that for the most part he's been pretty poor this season.

True story - I'd imagine if we were to invest it would be on good Championship players to help us next season in our next "yo-yo" season, or young cheap but high upside players for the sale part of our strategy - if PSR allows it of course.

It completely depends on the original contract, the amount left unpaid, the amount of time left on the contract and what's negotiated on contract termination. It's why you see some contracts immediately terminated and the manager walks into another job, or situations like Graham Potter where he wouldn't receive his full pay-off unless he didn't take a monthly pay-off (which is rare).

It is when you live in East Sussex, all your colleagues/staff are Brighton fans and your kids decide to support them too as their local team.

They're an extremely well run club.

And this is it, you think that we would have only spent that money irrelevant to PSR, whereas I think we'd have spent more, on better players had we had the opportunity. We'll have to agree to disagree until the accounts are posted though.

Certainly the first 2 - however this season we came up and had to spend nearly £35m off the bat on THB and Downes to go backwards after losing Armstrong and Che. We then spent £15m to replace Che with Archer, £12m to replace Armstrong with Fernandes and another £25m to replace our car crash of a keeper situation. That's £87m just trying to stand still.

I'm sure it wasn't. Not sure where you're getting the opinion that I said it was? I think they expected a brave fight against relegation, but ultimately relegation.

But they already have players, they have different baselines. We spent, what, £80-90m on mostly lower wage players, with Ramsdale as a one year dart throw as we know he's a saleable asset whatever happens.