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Reply | Dan Burn - £13 million
at 00:53 2 Feb 2022
350 Billion Newcastle in 1st place
22 Billion Man City
765 million Brighton in 16th place
Just to name a few stats!
I do have to respond to this as it is something that has really grated with me recently (so we are probably on the same page!) Newcastle are now the richest club in Premier league while Brighton is 16th - 13m is a fair price for Dan Burn. Premiership level first team starter from a team 9th in the PL and very flexible defender. If you had watched him up against Chelsea’s Lukaku this season (both at the Bridge and the Amex a few weeks later), I think you might agree that 13m for a defender Potter was not looking to sell was a good market value deal for the Magpies hoping to get out of the relegation zone . The only (or at least the main) reason Burn was tempted away from BHA was because he has always been a Magpie boy and Newcastle now have the money to literally buy themselves a place at the top of the table (ok wage increase and the imminent recoveries of defenders, Duffy and Dunk, would also have factored in Burn’s personal decision making) -
However, if anything ‘bodes badly’ for Championship & PL football (in fact UK football as a whole) , it is that we have a laughable situation in competitive sports in that a relegation contender club like Newcastle can suddenly become the nouveau riche Great Pretenders to the crown and buy themselves out of danger with a 90 million pound winter transfer spend including 40m on a midfielder alone. They could have spent 600m this transfer window (spread over the next 3 years) and still not be in breach of FFP rules. This injection of ridiculous money into the PL by multi-billion pound rich owners will eventually kill off competition at the highest level of English football and de facto create a financial super league of clubs impossible to compete with.
In addition to Russian Oligarchs/Saudis/Qatar ownerships that are increasing in English football with silly money to spend, the writing for inequality in English football was already on the wall with the Premiership TV deals and the inequality is self-sustaining. Championship clubs are also being bought out by conglomerates worth billions so the potential for capital investment is there and there are no FFP limits to education and infrastructure investments afaik. BHA got into the PL not by spending millions on top players above their ‘league’ and ‘buying’ their way in but by good fiscal management, good academy structure and longterm investment in a new 30,750 seater stadium to increase income and provide premiership standard facilities (even before they were promoted). Meanwhile the Seagulls will keep going with the struggle to get to a stable top ten position on a small fraction of the wealth of most of the top flight clubs and if they succeed it will be through excellent coaching from Potter, team spirit and superb scouting of lesser known players abroad as well as from their own U18/U23 pathway. It also helps that the club’s star is ascending making it an attractive club to televise! However, I do think it would be disingenuous to begrudge BHA marketing one of their strongest starting back four players for 13m to the richest club in the Premier League now looking to take a short cut to the top. Bissouma, Webster, Cucurella, Lamptey, just to name a few, all have the potential for top six clubs and the asking prices will be set accordingly (and they will all be worth a lot more than 13m, I can assure you!)
PS GOOD LUCK AT THE ALBION’S OLD STOMPING GROUND ON 5TH FEB! 🙂 [Post edited 2 Feb 2022 3:04]
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