Farmer Saint

I never said that, that was Manji. I never heard that - it would be very strange that a Manager who would have been sacked had he lost the Playoff Final would be given full control of transfers just because he did.

Yeah, would prefer him to Potter tbh. It's whether he'd be interested in us. The only problem is usually his teams are very large/agricultural. We don't have those type of players so not sure how he'd manage with that.

Not sure about that - there is every chance he can't. I think we need someone who's not as much as a risk (and an actual upgrade on Martin).

Ah, got it.

Although, if he gets sacked this week, I'd take Ten Hag...just not sure if that's realistic.

And herein lies the issue - I've not heard one name of someone who is a realistic upgrade yet on this thread.

What makes him a bullshitter?

I would prefer we bring in a player who plays to our players strengths if we're going to bring one in. Dont know what those strengths are though. As a Brighton local I remember the celebrations (and laughter) when Chelsea took him on. He was not well-rated round here. I think we'll be begging for the entertainment of Russell Martin if we brought him in.

The issue is he relies on very defensive football, and a lot of 1-0 wins - I don't think we have the players to do this - our defence and strikeforce are too weak.

Because we had a team of Championship players. Tbf, those 4 players cost us a grand total of £28m and £100k pw. Not exactly breaking the bank is it? But fine, you don't think we had any financial restrictions - we'll have to agree to disagree.

You two are aware the way PSR works don't you? Purchases are over the length of the contract, and sales are against that years accounts. We were told we HAD to sell to spend anymore, which suggests that we were literally out of PSR space for this season (or over the past 3). No, there is no Echo article quoting the Financial Controller, but I would suggest you read what was said over the Summer, and view the players we bought (with reference to transfer and wages) to see what market we were buying in.

It is if you don't understand it and I get that. If you do though, it's awesome.

What do you mean? You don't think we were limited on transfer incomings this Summer? We were told a number of times we had to sell players to bring others in and it resulted in us spending far less this Summer.

But it does allow a fair playing field for all teams, which is infinitely better than what we have in football.

Not saying aspirationally that shouldn't be what they're going for, but the PSR limitations we had due to our overspend on utter crap in 2022-23 means it's a very different landscape, and any previous small discretion that the PL would have allowed then are just not allowed now.

Never said it was a hot take or anything of the like, it's actually been doing the rounds for a while. PSR helps to close the PL to new teams. Don't know why but you seem to like to infer things into other people posts that don't exist - this is the second time in two posts this morning that you have done it. Wind your neck in.

Yeah, cos that's what I said 🙄. And it's 25 years, not 35.

The season we got relegated you mean? Where PSR wasn't being fully penalised so teams could come up thinking they could spend without impunity? Last season was the first one where the 3 teams that got promoted went straight back down since 1998. That's not a coincidence. The way for teams to stay up now is to hope that incumbent PL teams financially fuck themselves.

But the relevance is in the fact that none went down last season, further allowing for increased spending and maintenance of a PL quality squad for the 17 clubs that stayed in the League without PSR being as much of an issue. You seem to continously not grasp this point - I am assuming it's wilful ignorance on your part. If we stayed up this season we would cut out more of the Championship/League 1 quality players in our squad and replace with PL quality ones by increasing spending on both transfers and wages.

No, tanking is not really a thing - they may trade away players for prospects or draft picks, but funnily enough head coaches don't want to lose their jobs by tanking for the owners. It's also not legal, so they can lose the following season's draft picks if they do.

The squad only has about 5 or 6 PL quality players at the very most (Ramsdale, Suga (maybe), KWP (although not playing like it this season), Downes (maybe), Fernandes (maybe) and Dibling - I reckon that puts us at either 19th or 20th in the League, and WAYYYY behind anyone who was in this League last season.

Entertainment is subjective then I guess - we also played better football at times than we've seen since the early 80s.

We have the ability to be entertaining, a lot. Yes, we've not been great so far but we've still seen a fair amount of decent football against Newcastle, Man United and Ipswich.

It's not for hope reasons, it's for entertainment reasons - the hope is the hope of fun football as we'll never do anything in the PL anyway. Hoping to stay up is such a sad indictment on an individual I think, and shows someone that has the wrong outlook on life personally. Life is about fun and making the most of it, not hoping to be 4 bottom in an underwhelming and unentertaining season. Tbh, it's why the NFL shits all over association football.

That's fine, but who.