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De Zerbi Leaves Brighton

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Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
They are demonstrably better run than us

It’s not even up for debate

If they did have a bad season and got relegated, they’re financially secure and would likely bounce back quickly

If we ever got relegated in our current form it’s the end of the club

You can say you don’t like the model, but in a world where FFP and PSR have ensured that the ladder between top six and everyone else has been pulled up to before unseen levels, success for everyone else is linked more than ever to sustainability, and Brighton kick the absolute crap out of us in that category
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No one is arguing they’re not better run than us if the balance sheet is all you’re looking at, but I was arguing that model doesn’t bring success, and it hasn’t. It’s not repeatable and you don’t win anything when all your players and manager have half an eye elsewhere. We should be protesting the inequality between the sky six and the rest rather than accepting it and modelling ourselves on Brighton.
 
Daveysgingerlovechild said:
Are we blagging him or what then?
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Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
They are demonstrably better run than us

It’s not even up for debate

If they did have a bad season and got relegated, they’re financially secure and would likely bounce back quickly

If we ever got relegated in our current form it’s the end of the club

You can say you don’t like the model, but in a world where FFP and PSR have ensured that the ladder between top six and everyone else has been pulled up to before unseen levels, success for everyone else is linked more than ever to sustainability, and Brighton kick the absolute crap out of us in that category
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Yeah. Pretty much this. They're nothing to turn your head or cream your pants over.

They have solid foundations. That's pretty much the short and sweet of it.

They've kept the same solid and reliable board members for ages now, compared to us... How many resignations and appointees have we had in the last 5 years or so? From CEO to FD to CFO? A lot and that says it all.
 
Saint Domingo said:
You joking? Half the forum pulled their pants down for De Zerbi and Brighton. This is apparently the formula for success w should all be following. Constant turn over of players and a genius manager. They were going to be European regulars if you read this place and they were steps ahead of everyone else. Well now they’re smack in mid table with us possibly the worst run team in the PL. of course there’s things we could learn from some of their recruitment but the cult like adulation of them on here was embarrassing.
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Hows that?
 
Saint Domingo said:
No one is arguing they’re not better run than us if the balance sheet is all you’re looking at, but I was arguing that model doesn’t bring success, and it hasn’t. It’s not repeatable and you don’t win anything when all your players and manager have half an eye elsewhere. We should be protesting the inequality between the sky six and the rest rather than accepting it and modelling ourselves on Brighton.
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Tommy Chong said:
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Yeah. Pretty much this. They're nothing to turn your head or cream your pants over.

They have solid foundations. That's pretty much the short and sweet of it.

They've kept the same solid and reliable board members for ages now, compared to us... How many resignations and appointees have we had in the last 5 years or so? From CEO to FD to CFO? A lot and that says it all.
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Right now it’s all about just surviving until tomorrow

That’s it

The too cool for school crew don’t like admitting that because they live under the misconception that if the Everton support constantly talks the club up then they can magically manifest 1984-87 again

But it’s not reality

Everton aren’t in the position they’re in because the fan base don’t believe we can be a top club

Everton are in this position because we’ve been chronically mismanaged and poorly ran for nearly 3 decades, to the point that we are literally one bad season from everything collapsing down upon us

Brighton are ran in a way that they have a ceiling. That’s obvious. They’re never winning the league and a great season for them will be qualifying for Europa League/Conference and possibly winning or getting close to winning a cup

But they are also ran in a way that a meh season is easily being safe and bumming around lower mid table

A bad season is relegation, but not the end times either

That’s the difference between a well run club and a badly run one

Brighton live within their means and have financial fail safes in place to ensure they can ride out the bad times

And who knows, if Brighton can hold on to PL status for 5, 10, 15 years, then maybe a day will come when they can kick on and that ceiling can be raised?

I can’t see that happening for Everton right now. If we adopted the Brighton business model and combined it with the new stadium, then maybe we could eventually build on that foundation to achieve better things?
 

Saint Domingo said:
No one is arguing they’re not better run than us if the balance sheet is all you’re looking at, but I was arguing that model doesn’t bring success, and it hasn’t. It’s not repeatable and you don’t win anything when all your players and manager have half an eye elsewhere. We should be protesting the inequality between the sky six and the rest rather than accepting it and modelling ourselves on Brighton.
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Look where Brighton have come from. They were bankrupt and in league 2 when their current owner took over. His business model has taken them all the way to the europa league and brought them a nice PL-standard stadium. They’re a brilliantly run club. They haven’t had a bad season at all this season. A run in the europa league, safe from relegation. And their manager is about to get poached by one of the giants of European football
 

Alan Whittle said:
Six pages on these tinpot tossers?
Harry Potter will be back in there shortly although I gave Roy a bell and told him to get in touch.
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Lol, you really do hate them Al, don't ya?
 
I think de zerba is massively overrated and a manager who has no loyalty to any club.
Seemed to down tools this season as soon as he started getting mentioned with bigger jobs.
Given a straight choice and unless there is a change of owners other than 777 I would stick with Dyche who won as many points as de zerba under far worse circumstances.
 

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