Evangelos Marinakis And Co

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That's a knockout competition so it's a bit different as it's affected by the draw but yes those are outliers. There's nuance with regards to priorities etc too.

Picking out exceptions doesn't make the general rule not true.

Yeah but underlying mindset is important. 

Brighton and Brentford have achieved success, by their definition, without being driven by turnover. 

There’s a deeper point here and EMs mindset, reflected in his approach to date.

But both have in recent times moved to new stadiums

By virtue of a continuous improvement through prudent investment and acquisition

Could be very wrong, but I think Brighton are going the way of Southampton. Treating everything completely as an exercise in business rather than sport. Sold too many of their best players. Manager going to leave. I don't think it'll prove sustainable.

They're also never going to win anything. Boring.

Agree. If you get the balance wrong in selling players, and they've sold a lot of talent recently, then that strategy can easily backfire. And they are boring. I'll never watch a match they play in, except against us, as i find them and their style completely dull and almost pretentious. Id love to see them have a poor season tbh so they realise that maybe they're not as high amd mighty as they think.