Much as it pains me to say they have leapt forward in terms of their play and how they are run. Their scouting and recruitment model is seeing them getting top dollar in terms of sales that they are reinvesting and managerial choices in Potter and De Zerbi has been excellent. I don't even think that the most hopeful Brighton fan would have envisaged how good De Zerbi has been in managing the team.

But they are going to been tested far more so soon. Playing on a Thursday and Sunday does take it's toll and you've seen that with other teams in the past. Look at West Ham's form in the league last season for example. Do Brighton have enough depth in their squad to cope? Possibly but a few injuries and suspensions will take a toll.

And I think the other elephant in the room is De Zerbi. Inevitably as least one of the so called bigger clubs will sack their manager this season. At the moment that looks potentially like Man U but too early to say. I would say that De Zerbi would be high up on the list for that job or for most of the other big jobs.

Vision and recruitment.

It feels from the outside that they have a plan. That dictates the way they play, the players the bring in and their manager choice. And as a result they aren't looking for 'names' or prem experience.

It may explain why a few of their sales have struggled in their new teams, they were signed for how well they were playing in the Brighton system.

The thing that they are doing that nobody else seams to be doing is spotting talent early. Like years early.

But not just that, they sign them early with a plan/pathway to the first team. e.g.
Mitoma, signed in '21 went immediately on loan (the day after)
Caicedo, 6 month loan and then into the first team
Mac Allister - 2 immediate loans in Argentina

We on the other hand feel like we are unearthing gems, when we sign the EFL young player of the season. And never really feel like we have a plan.

Luck!

Their newish 30.000 seater stadium helps , a board of directors intead of investors maybe

I think they were also super quick to cotton on (they may even have jumped the gun ) in identifying the new international transfer rules post Brexit as a source of cheaper good standard players . They basically took their pick of South American talent while evryone else including us were still buying duds from the Championship and Europes minor leagues

We wont get close to Europe or the top half of the league until we redevelop the ground (or move) . We are basically treading water till then .

And we still need a striker

They have a chairman in Tony Bloom who knows his onions. Got a brilliant recruitment strategy and have employed young managers who have done very well. Our recruitment policy with Freedman has been crap. Vieira didnt come off in the end after a promising start. We should have replaced him with another young manager.

Bloom wouldnt have replaced Potter with Chris Hughton after he sacked him!! But our wonderful chairman went back to the manager he sacked.

Ok not sacked then. But Tony Bloom would never have gone full circle when Potter was sacked and gone back to Hughton or Gus Poyet. He appointed De Zerbi and look whats happened.

When Parish decided to sack Vieira he should have already had a young ambitious manager lined up and not gone back to a guy who had left less than 2 years before.

Sorry I know you lot are all Parish fanboys on here but he isnt fit to lace Tony Blooms boots.