Andy BHAFC

West Upper STH, Brighton born & bred, a Goldstone ground veteran, loved my clubbing days & currently mad on house beats! 🤷‍♂️

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@iqrafatma1278 Splat

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@paulgrg4 @AndrewJames1901 @CParkerTurner If for nothing else other than the Arsenal games! 💩🏠😉

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@FBAwayDays Not a great look is it !

[Brighton Buzz @BrightonBuzzz]

🚨 Brighton are in talks with right-back Joel Veltman about a new contract EXTENSION.

Looks like the legend will stay a little longer...👀

[via @elliotcook01]

#BHAFC

[Steve Hanlon @mrstevehanlon]

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[Charlie Parker-Turner @CParkerTurner]

🚨: Brighton in talks over new deal for Joel Veltman after Dutchman named on released list

#BHAFC

https://t.co/XTEnDqwJZn

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@BallinFFB Internet!
Oh no you didn’t!
He was BRITISH! 🇬🇧

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@dannykellywords Keep those spirits high, if you can!
Speedy recovery 🤞

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@londoncoder @TheBrightonBard Just imagine if it fell through, 😳
Would JPVH do a ‘Trossard’ ?

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@LanawayDominic @albionroar @TheBrightonBard Good old Rory with the most punchable face in punditry.

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@Focus19471951 @blanconick80 @TheBrightonBard Jonny Cantor and Warren Aspinal both think Coppola is too hot headed and would collect to many reds 🤷‍♂️

[TheBrightonBard @TheBrightonBard]

WE ALL KNOW HOW THIS PLAYS OUT…

✅ We put a huge value on him

✅ People (with no idea on the psychology of negotiating) call us mad/greedy.

✅ We reject an offer

✅ We reject another offer

✅ Tony gets what he wants

✅ Everyone but Brighton fans are surprised

🤷🏻

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@NoahSeaby 100% Agree. At some point over this process, which must be in its 3rd year now, uncle Tony must have this in his mind but the problem will always be the fact that ‘if players push’ they can leave! But if we keep getting Europe surely they’ll start staying.

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

Explains MY CLUB beautifully!
So those moaning out there about us profiteering and always cashing in, have a read on exactly how it should be done and give me a reason why it’s wrong!
I’ll wait!
💙🤍💛

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Brighton bought a teenager for about £4m and sold him to Chelsea for £115m. The man running the club is a professional gambler. This week he did it again, paying £21.5m for an 18-year-old from the Swedish league.

The gambler is Tony Bloom. Before football, he made his money at the poker table and in sports betting, where the whole skill is spotting something priced too low and betting big on it. He bought Brighton and ran it the same way.

Caicedo is the one everyone remembers. Brighton signed Moisés Caicedo from a club in Ecuador for about £4m and sold him to Chelsea two seasons later for £115m, the most a British club had ever paid for a player at the time. Marc Cucurella cost £15m and left for Chelsea at £62m. Liverpool paid £35m for Alexis Mac Allister, a £7m buy from Argentina. João Pedro went the same way last summer, £30m in and up to £60m out, also to Chelsea. Same move every time. Buy a kid cheap, give him a season or two to get good, then sell him to a giant at the peak of his price.

The trick is that Brighton barely guesses. Bloom owns a sports-betting company, and the club runs a private piece of software that scans players across the planet and flags the ones going for less than they are worth, usually teenagers in leagues the big clubs cannot be bothered to watch, in places like Ecuador, Argentina, Japan and now Sweden. They look for the position they need anywhere on earth, plan a year or two ahead, and have a cheap replacement ready before the star is even sold. In late 2024 they let go of most of their human scouts and leaned on the computer instead.

And it works. Brighton made the biggest profit any club has ever posted in the Premier League, around £123m in a single year, and the Caicedo money had not even come in yet. They pulled it off with the 13th-biggest wage bill in the league and one of the cheapest squads in it.

Chelsea alone have now handed Brighton about £237m for Caicedo, Cucurella and João Pedro. They are paying for the very machine that keeps beating them. And two of the four clubs Brighton held off to sign that Swedish kid this week were Chelsea and Newcastle.

So an 18-year-old from Stockholm, bought for £21.5m, is just the next chip on the gambler's table. If the pattern holds, some giant pays over £100m for him in a few years, and Brighton starts the whole thing again with the winnings.

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@buitengebieden Susan

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@82_hotspur @RicharlisonSZNx Please explain that one in detail numpty!

[Et𝒽an Sagg𝑒rs @ethan_saggers_]

cool, NOW GET CRESSWELL DONE

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@henrywinter Never mind how few will eventually attend, we can bank the fact that good old DJT will proclaim it has been the biggest, smoothest, most well attended show on earth. For someone in total denial about factual news, he’s certain to use good old ‘Fake News’ !

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@BennettsField Nice one 👍🤣🤣🤣

[Andy BHAFC @AndyMitten3]

@ronsterd89 Pathfinders or brogues