STAX

To me Brighton doing what they should so not particularly a bad thing but what's bad is we have previously given them "gifts" in our players we sold to them at reasonable amounts yet they fleeced us last summer for Cucurell, Potter and his team. They have no concept of good faith or relationship building and yet in all this they still came at us about our player with quite frankly insulting and derogatory valuations. 
The only ones that stink in this is Chelsea. Taken for mugs all the time. A player with exactly one year of PL experience is not the type of player we should be acting this way over. The laziness and lack of imagination on our part for alternatives even if as a bargaining tool is astounding. Having an alternative makes the player himself push for the move. He released a heart tugging post about going to Arsenal and they still didn't let him go. 
Even if we could afford £101m is that what our priority should be? For a player at his level of experience that has achieved exactly what in the game so far? Tidy passing and sweeping the midfield well? There are winners out there that we can tempt, them and their top clubs, playing football and winning things at a level Brighton can only dream of for less than the so called £80m rejected bid. 
Frankly in my opinion, we need our heads examined as this can only go one way. Sometime you just need to look at your history. Signing expensive duds time and time again doesn't prove that this will be the case again but do we really need to go for a near £100m signing every year?  
Since Pep arrived, a man who everyone likes to deflect and diminish his brilliance by pointing to huge sums he spends has really only ever bought players over £60m twice. Rodri and Ruben Dias and a £100m player in Grealish. In same time we have done so 6 times. In the same time period he has won 5 titles and we have won the grand total of 1 in a season when we didn't particularly splurge. 
We should focus on developing our team and building it holistically through primarily good structures and management in place rather than trying to spend our way to glory. 
There are more intelligent ways that actually serve the team better than expensive purchases that when you consider things from a wider viewpoint don't even make much sense.