There are some complete idiots on this forum, but you are in a league of your own, 70s you sound about 12, why not take your repetitive rubbish and go and support your beloved seaweed.

recriutment crap? Guehi, Andersen, Doucoure, Olise ... Gallagher's loan ... and Edouarde is getting his act together... Brighton's is exceptional but what a nonsense comment!

He does sound like a bit of a Bloom fan boy alright .

Roy has stated in his Press Conference for Fulham that he expects both teams to be competing for a top ten place - "I would expect both teams to be pushing for places in the top 10, so in that respect they are a rival, yes."

If we were to achieve that, I'd consider it a rather large step up. I understand many may not but it'd be big for me in any instance.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Its just swings and roundabouts, Brighton have won nothing, they qualified for a cup that is more a hindrance than a prize, they will eventually get relegated like everyone outside the top seven, just look at the Championship more than half of the teams had lengthy spells in the top division.

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

There's no magic, just money really.

Bloom is a billionaire and it's his money that has propelled them forward.

They were able to build their new ground (which Bloom financed I believe) by just ignoring the fact that a village was in Falmer and slapping it in there. We don't have that space (nor the wealth to just obliterate Sainsbury's) which makes it a lot more difficult and have had to balance a new ground v. squad investment a lot more carefully.

They've grown whilst trying to be self-sufficient, much like Parish has with us, but ultimately Bloom is covering the debts and seems happy to do so indefinitely, so they can push themselves a bit harder and faster than we can at the moment.

They've had some luck with signing and selling, take Caicedo for example, they must have bitten Chelsea's hand off when they came back with £116 million for him having only paid £4.5 million! We've had a couple of transfers that haven't worked out, but on the whole, we've had some very good ones with Eze and Olise being prime examples.

Ultimately though, Bloom is worth £1.3 billion and Parish is worth £100 million, so much deeper pockets. The American backers aren't exactly putting their hands in their pockets, so until someone comes along with the club's best interests at heart and a couple of billion in the bank, this is as good as it's going to get.

The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots