The will not make any money as the value of the squad decreases and the debt rises - I take some solace from that. Unfortunately the club will crash and burn with them

They will never be able to sell because they overvalue themselves far too much, as we've seen with shirt sponsorship. So when the times comes and no-one offers them the money they want, they'll have to start selling players to make some money back I guess.

All those cowards that left the forum telling us everything is on track, congratulations, you got played. We told you for years this ownership is bad, have you had enough of a wake up call yet?

All of the fans still going to games, what are you even going for at this point? You sit in silence for 90 minutes. You're not going to support, because the Bridge has been dead for years now, so what are going for? At least get angry. Lazio fans left their stadium empty the other day, why are we not doing the same?

This ownership is a cancer on this club. Anybody still going to games or contributing financially to them is just an enemy of the club at this point.

"Sack Tuchel, hire Potter"
Thats our "Sack Fergie, sell Giggsy" that some numpties in Manchester demanded in the early 90s. Difference being it actually happened here and thats the exact date the real downfall started.

Gifted the club perfectly wrapped on a silver platter

What's the point of buying gems when you don't hire the best coaches to properly nurture them?

Surely from the manager and above, they are not oblivious to the soundbites around the state of our club and why? Like they must know our squad building strategy has been a total disaster and that things have to change?

1 hour ago, Zeta said:

Although supporting a sports team is obviously more complex than the example I'm about to give, there still has to be an element of entertainment or people will just switch off.

If I was watching a tv series and every episode was boring, the actors were sh*t and not believable in their roles, and the show runners kept coming out on social media telling people that these are the best young actors in the world and we need to shut up and keep watching because it'll get good in a few seasons - I'd stop watching.

Apart from the blind tribalism of it being my team, I have no other reason to keep watching each week.

Not a fan of PMQs then I take it?

4 minutes ago, KonaKai Blue said:

Surely from the manager and above, they are not oblivious to the soundbites around the state of our club and why? Like they must know our squad building strategy has been a total disaster and that things have to change?

Since taking over they have always given the impression that they think they know best. They have got rid of almost every member of the staff that had proven football experience, from the youth team up. Feels like all the decisions are being made by data analytics and AI now.

We were probably too blessed having an owner like Roman who not only had deep pockets but also actually loved football, showed up pretty much week in week out and f**king hated losing.

Now we have owners with deep pockets who see football as a hobby and don't particularly care if we win or lose as we are a pastime for them.

29 minutes ago, Zeta said:

They will never be able to sell because they overvalue themselves far too much, as we've seen with shirt sponsorship. So when the times comes and no-one offers them the money they want, they'll have to start selling players to make some money back I guess.

I never see it commented, but I've always thought Roman absolutely rinsed them on the price they paid for the club. To me they were instantly at least half a billion behind the eight ball, if not more, albeit I wasn't expecting them to add to that in quite such spectacular fashion and so quickly with the player acquisitions at such inflated prices and contracts, and with such inept commercial "activity" in parallel. This is going to be a case study for years at Business Schools on how not to run a sporting enterprise.

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1 hour ago, Zeta said:

Although supporting a sports team is obviously more complex than the example I'm about to give, there still has to be an element of entertainment or people will just switch off.

If I was watching a tv series and every episode was boring, the actors were sh*t and not believable in their roles, and the show runners kept coming out on social media telling people that these are the best young actors in the world and we need to shut up and keep watching because it'll get good in a few seasons - I'd stop watching.

Apart from the blind tribalism of it being my team, I have no other reason to keep watching each week.

When I first started going to watch us, we had a mostly crap team and got relegated too. But it was a different era then as there was a good atmosphere in the ground and the day out was about more than just the result and the entertainment on the pitch. The modern game has killed most of the atmosphere for home fans, and overpriced the product. So when the entertainment isn't there on the pitch it is a hard watch.

3 minutes ago, loz said:

We were probably too blessed having an owner like Roman who not only had deep pockets but also actually loved football, showed up pretty much week in week out and f**king hated losing.

Now we have owners with deep pockets who see football as a hobby and don't particularly care if we win or lose as we are a pastime for them.

Roman also equipped himself with football people even when he was new to the whole thing.

His only flaw was he bought into the whole Pep tiki-taka bullsh*t

5 minutes ago, loz said:

We were probably too blessed having an owner like Roman who not only had deep pockets but also actually loved football, showed up pretty much week in week out and f**king hated losing.

Now we have owners with deep pockets who see football as a hobby and don't particularly care if we win or lose as we are a pastime for them.

Not even sure they care about football. There only interest in what they see as their assets and what they presumably think they will eventually make when they sell the club.

5 minutes ago, KonaKai Blue said:

Surely from the manager and above, they are not oblivious to the soundbites around the state of our club and why? Like they must know our squad building strategy has been a total disaster and that things have to change?

Rosenior is a puppet, he'll go along with it all until he feels he can make a step up out of this sh*tshow. Maresca did exactly the same thing.

As for the owners......when have you ever seen billionaires admit they were wrong? Once people reach this point of wealth, they can't ever conceive the idea that they could ever be wrong about anything, and they certainly won't be listening to us brokie plebs, they probably don't even see us as human.

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15 minutes ago, KonaKai Blue said:

Surely from the manager and above, they are not oblivious to the soundbites around the state of our club and why? Like they must know our squad building strategy has been a total disaster and that things have to change?

It doesn't register. It's another language. They have no interest in the football, the underlying product. This is a financial investment, they don't care as long as they are making money.

If you owned Government gilt and Treasury stocks you wouldn't care less if we all thought that Starmer was a c**t ruining the country as long as you're going to make a profit on your investment

Most of the fanbase is behind them still though, just on here we are unhappy, right?

13 hours ago, Zeta said:

Although supporting a sports team is obviously more complex than the example I'm about to give, there still has to be an element of entertainment or people will just switch off.

If I was watching a tv series and every episode was boring, the actors were sh*t and not believable in their roles, and the show runners kept coming out on social media telling people that these are the best young actors in the world and we need to shut up and keep watching because it'll get good in a few seasons - I'd stop watching.

Apart from the blind tribalism of it being my team, I have no other reason to keep watching each week.

That would be @Valerie's favourite show Scrubs.

At this stage I wish they would just feck off

I've said it before and I'll say it again, at what stage do the people that are pumping the money into the club look at what Eghbali and the sh*tbags he's appointed take a look at things and realise things aren't right? Over the course of 5 years we're a worse team now than we were when they took over, we've spunked close to 2 billion quid on players where only a handful are any good and on top of that we're haemorrhaging money in every other aspect.

Now, I'm not a multi billionaire, but I'm pretty sure if it was my money I wouldn't be very f**king happy with how it's been wasted.

3 hours ago, timetowaste said:

I've said it before and I'll say it again, at what stage do the people that are pumping the money into the club look at what Eghbali and the sh*tbags he's appointed take a look at things and realise things aren't right? Over the course of 5 years we're a worse team now than we were when they took over, we've spunked close to 2 billion quid on players where only a handful are any good and on top of that we're haemorrhaging money in every other aspect.

Now, I'm not a multi billionaire, but I'm pretty sure if it was my money I wouldn't be very f**king happy with how it's been wasted.

The people who are " pumpkin money into the club" have no interest in football whatever..

All they care above is eventually seeing a decent return at some point. And as per the Brighton model that our owners love, trophies and titles are not essential,

33 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

The people who are " pumpkin money into the club" have no interest in football whatever..

All they care above is eventually seeing a decent return at some point. And as per the Brighton model that our owners love, trophies and titles are not essential

But that's my point, let's say you're right and they only care about making a return, where is this money gonna come from? The billions they've spent have been pissed away and they've got nothing to show for it. We aren't making money commercially, stadium plans are moving at a snails pace, no long term sponsor for years which has cost us over £100m, looking more and more likely that we won't qualify for the CL so that's more income lost, player values are decreasing because we're playing like sh*t and even worse, hundreds of millions have been spent on players who's value is already way below what we spent on them.

The only conceivable way they have of making money is if they find someone to pay an inflated price for the club, but the more debt the clowns we have in charge put us in the less likely that is to happen.

So it's all well and good saying the owners want the Brighton model of no trophies and just steady revenue, but realistically with the money they've spent the Brighton model is completely out of reach for them. To justify what they've spent and have even half a chance of making their money back we need to be an elite team to bring in elite team revenue. Brighton are Brighton because they spend little and make money, BlueCo have spent billions and make a loss. So if they really care about making money, they need to sack the people heading up the project.

Do Brighton even make money?

Our SD’s need to change strategy or f**k off, it’s as simple as that.

I struggle to watch us these days, I’d hoped that would change once EM left but sadly it hasn’t.

We aren’t the only fans that say this though, I think the premier league has lost a lot in terms of entertainment value.

I actually prefer to watch lower league or women’s football. They seem to attack more, the games are played at a much faster end to end pace which causes mistakes and makes for a much better game and watch.

Blame this on trend brand of football, stats making players risk averse, the money involved at the top who knows but it’s pretty sh*t right now all round IMHO.

How low will we need to sink before they re forced to sell?

like Spurs? Worse?

20 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

How low will we need to sink before they re forced to sell?

like Spurs? Worse?

I don't think they can be forced to sell.