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Nah the system is fine, it was fine at the beginning of the season and the players were playing well, why was I seeing the same people putting our players up there with City's and Woolwich's at the start of the year but now all of a sudden it's shit, ok then lol
I don’t think it’s an all of a sudden thing, it’s been back tracking since really Wolves away, I’ve not seen anything of substance since then to suggest Ange has an answer. The players will always always always fold and hide, it’s the coaching teams job to not give them hiding space, but they appear to have totally lost the plot.

It’s obvious to Stevie Wonder that Son wide and Richarlson works better than Son central and some other plodder wide.

It’s obvious Royle is not a player suited to playing on the shoulder of Salah.

But obvious is not the way Ange works. In fairness he does that unobvious well, because I have no idea what the guy is actually trying to do.
 
Yea but that’s the devils bargain they have to make to get in real top quality young talent. We used to do that, and could learn something from it.

Well yeh... If you wanna be a 10th place team aspiring to 7th each season........

Same way that if we were Palace then Olise & Eze would have been happy to to use us as a stepping-stone club too.

Besides, isn't us signing Udog, Sarr, Veliz, Dragusin, Gil, VDV etc. and trying to use more data-driven recruitment essentially us playing the same 'game' just at a higher price-point ?


............Whenever one bombs though; people just cry that we haven't sign 'finished articles' instead.
 
I have called for DeZerbi to be appointed manager multiple times in the last two months. I love the club philosophy at Brighton and wish we would do more to emulate it.

Buying young players all the time hoping to sell isnt a great philosophy if you want to achieve success. Now de zebri might play good football but he won't achieve anything at brighton when they are a selling club.
 
Well yeh... If you wanna be a 10th place team aspiring to 7th each season........

Same way if we were Palace then Olise & Eze would have been happy to to use us as a stepping-stone club too.

Besides, isn't us signing Udog, Sarr, Veliz, Dragusin, Gil, VDV etc. and trying to use more data-driven recruitment essentially us playing the same 'game' just at a higher price-point ?


............Whenever one bombs though; people just cry that we haven't sign 'finished articles' instead.
They bomb because we don’t have a plan to either integrate and improve them, or move them along in short order. Levy is holding on to these players like prison cigarettes thinking they’ll still be smokeable after five years being traded.

And playing this development game at a “higher level” is super fucking risky because in an economic downturn- like we are in now- there is a real lack of wealthier clubs hungry to buy your players at an acceptable premium.

We need to try a different approach.
 
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