MASSIVE recency bias mate…Brighton have played well and been competing with the big clubs for like…two years? You get this every now and then; a small club will put together a good run for a few years but they eventually won’t be able to survive having players and managers snatched up by the actual big clubs. And while clubs like West Ham and Villa definitely have a leg up on most of the rest of the prem, they both have their best players plundered by the big 6 bc they aren’t actually on their level financially. It is time to start calling it the big 7 though. Newcastle has the financials and the results, pretty soon there will be little/no functional difference between them and traditional big 6.
MASSIVE recency bias mate…Brighton have played well and been competing with the big clubs for like…two years? You get this every now and then; a small club will put together a good run for a few years but they eventually won’t be able to survive having players and managers snatched up by the actual big clubs. And while clubs like West Ham and Villa definitely have a leg up on most of the rest of the prem, they both have their best players plundered by the big 6 bc they aren’t actually on their level financially. It is time to start calling it the big 7 though. Newcastle has the financials and the results, pretty soon there will be little/no functional difference between them and traditional big 6.