Agree about Brighton, in fact the last few years has seen them on dying bigger and bigger fees for players they once were getting for bargain basement prices - problem is, the system used to recruit became too successful - here and at places like Dortmund and RB Leipzig, French clubs etc, so now everyone is shopping in that 20-23 market which has the maximum upside in terms of development increasing the value, that's skyrocketed the demand compared to supply and debt the prices through the roof.
When Brighton or Bournemouth could pick up a lad at 20/21 fir 4-6m then flip him a few years later for 30-40m the model works perfectly, it allows them multiple failures whilst still giving them a huge overall return, once the prices they have to pay start getting towards 20-40 though the room for error has gone and they need pretty much a much much better hit rate to be able to still keep the model of recruitment going.
A couple of seasons were the success rate flops, the entire system will collapse in on them.
Both are reaching the point now we're they will need to start qualifying regularly for Europe to ensure an additional source of revenue as well.
Gonna be an interesting watch to see if they can adjust to a saturated market now.
