2025/26 Adam Aznou

[Swartzy]

If you can't acknowledge that Brighton's model is based around developing young players then I would have to assume that you're being deliberately obtuse.

They don't play a full team of teenagers, having a mix of youth and senior pro's is just common sense. The role of older players at Brighton is mainly to help facilitate the development of the high potential young players, and provide enough stability and leadership on the pitch to be able to help them adapt as quickly as possible. The amount of young players they've brought through speaks for itself. That's what the focus is there.

That's obviously also what we were aiming to do by spending the bulk of our money on development signings, with Grealish and KDH coming as more reliable senior pro's. The intention of the club in summer was not that all of these young players would spend the entire season not playing at all which was my original point.

Four outfield players over 30 is the equivalent of us having Tarkowski, Gana, Grealish and Keane playing. On top of that we have reliable players in their prime like Garner, KDH, Ndiaye -I don't see any good reason for us to have been as conservative as we have been this season in regards to finding minutes for the likes of Aznou, Dibling, Rohl and now George.

Brighton allow their manager to keep or bring in a certain amount of players of their choice, the rest and bulk of the signings are signed through the clubs strategy..
That is why they allowed Gross to be brought back in.

When you look at our window, 2 experienced players and the rest a different younger profile..

 

[Simon Buttle]

Brighton allow their manager to keep or bring in a certain amount of players of their choice, the rest and bulk of the signings are signed through the clubs strategy..
That is why they allowed Gross to be brought back in.

When you look at our window, 2 experienced players and the rest a different younger profile..

Brighton managers have zero say in the recruitment process mate. Gross is a club legend there and the opportunity for him to resign is a no brainer as he will no doubt go down the same route as Milner and be involved with the coaching side of things. I can see him as a future manager there one day, he is a hero there.

 

[Clarky cat]

If he can’t bench press his body weight by now he needs to get in the bin.

 

[Swartzy]

Brighton managers have zero say in the recruitment process mate. Gross is a club legend there and the opportunity for him to resign is a no brainer as he will no doubt go down the same route as Milner and be involved with the coaching side of things. I can see him as a future manager there one day, he is a hero there.

you will probably be able to find an Interview with Hurzeler about Brighton's transfer strategy and what he has to say in it.
If you watch that than in will sum it up for you, he isn't going to lie about a club that brought him in.

Why do you think Dunk, Webster, Burn, Welbeck and players like that were kept around, legend or not, Brighton wouldn't bring Gross back going by a total youth approach..

 

[Bedfordblue]

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Lol.

He’s lucky he didn’t get dropped too for such rhetoric.

Hopefully someone will ask about Anzou in a presser soon and hopefully we’ll get a bit more than ‘I’ve got nothing to say about him’ on repeat while wearing a face like a well smacked arse.

 

[Simon Buttle]

you will probably be able to find an Interview with Hurzeler about Brighton's transfer strategy and what he has to say in it.
If you watch that than in will sum it up for you, he isn't going to lie about a club that brought him in.

Why do you think Dunk, Webster, Burn, Welbeck and players like that were kept around, legend or not, Brighton wouldn't bring Gross back going by a total youth approach..

I don't need to listen to Hurzelar though as I am aware of how the setup is there (the vast majority of it is all done with AI now and done by Jamestown) and how it works. It's always been their model to use a few older players to bring on the younger ones, I have never said it was a total youth approach because its not, but you can go all the way back to Bruno (the first signing of the Bloom tenure) who stayed on and then went into coaching and eventually followed Potter to Chelsea, they tend too push the older players towards coaching/bringing on the younger lads

 

[Joey66]

Ideal away at Arsenal when their young winger came on to put him at left back IMO DM tactics are woeful ....

He watched Arteta make changes & his first substitute Beto { doing ok for the pathetic Barry } on around 70 minutes as per usual ....

nothing to negate their changes until it was too late ....

 

[Swartzy]

I don't need to listen to Hurzelar though as I am aware of how the setup is there (the vast majority of it is all done with AI now and done by Jamestown) and how it works. It's always been their model to use a few older players to bring on the younger ones, I have never said it was a total youth approach because its not, but you can go all the way back to Bruno (the first signing of the Bloom tenure) who stayed on and then went into coaching and eventually followed Potter to Chelsea, they tend too push the older players towards coaching/bringing on the younger lads

You are now backtracking though on your response to my post..

 

[bilyaletdinov_]

Ideal away at Arsenal when their young winger came on to put him at left back IMO DM tactics are woeful ....

He watched Arteta make changes & his first substitute Beto { doing ok for the pathetic Barry } on around 70 minutes as per usual ....

nothing to negate their changes until it was too late ....

No chance he should have been brought on for his first PL football in a 0-0 against the league leaders mate!

 

[pfim]

If you can't acknowledge that Brighton's model is based around developing young players then I would have to assume that you're being deliberately obtuse.

They don't play a full team of teenagers, having a mix of youth and senior pro's is just common sense. The role of older players at Brighton is mainly to help facilitate the development of the high potential young players, and provide enough stability and leadership on the pitch to be able to help them adapt as quickly as possible. The amount of young players they've brought through speaks for itself. That's what the focus is there.

That's obviously also what we were aiming to do by spending the bulk of our money on development signings, with Grealish and KDH coming as more reliable senior pro's. The intention of the club in summer was not that all of these young players would spend the entire season not playing at all which was my original point.

Four outfield players over 30 is the equivalent of us having Tarkowski, Gana, Grealish and Keane playing. On top of that we have reliable players in their prime like Garner, KDH, Ndiaye -I don't see any good reason for us to have been as conservative as we have been this season in regards to finding minutes for the likes of Aznou, Dibling, Rohl and now George.

No but this idea that they exist solely to develop players and sell them is just not true. Or that they'd play someone like Aznou over an older and better player, solely for the development of Aznou, is wrong.

Re-selling players, and staying in the PL is how they survive. They can't have one without the other, so there is balance.

I would venture to say that if Brighton had bought him, he would have been on loan this entire season. Which is what Everton should have done, or at least done so in January.

 

[preposterousvelios]

No but this idea that they exist solely to develop players and sell them is just not true. Or that they'd play someone like Aznou over an older and better player, solely for the development of Aznou, is wrong.

Re-selling players, and staying in the PL is how they survive. They can't have one without the other, so there is balance.

I would venture to say that if Brighton had bought him, he would have been on loan this entire season. Which is what Everton should have done, or at least done so in January.

Yeah, they would loan Aznou as they have Kadioglu and De Cuyper.

If all they had was Aznou and Myko with 1 year left on his deal they would be at least be rotating the two this season.

 

[blue in oxford]

Feel sorry for the lad big impact when he came on then nothing
This too young for PM is really grating

 

[degsy]

No chance he should have been brought on for his first PL football in a 0-0 against the league leaders mate!

Sad but true.
Yet Arteta did more or less that...(not the league leaders bit obvs)

On the other hand Moyes did that with Rooney Vs Arsenal.

So maybe he's not good enough, yet Dobbin got more Mins and where's he now?

 

[Neiler]

Im all alright with all the 19 years old taking a year or so to bed in and find their feet if im honest.

 

[hetion]

Im all alright with all the 19 years old taking a year or so to bed in and find their feet if im honest.

Defo, but the process and pathway for it seems to be a mess. Aznou, Dibling and even George were clearly brought in with the expectation of them getting first team minutes (to varying degrees, but still). Moyes has then gone back on that (as he has with Rohl and even Patterson too - he was told in January that he couldn't be sold because he was first choice backup to O'Brien, only for Moyes to immediately use Garner instead). So they've now had a wasted year and probably are a bit pissed off which is bad a) for them, b) for our squad development and c) for our future transfer business.