This is an interesting POV. I know for a fact that Brighton are very particular about the clubs they're selling to. Only if players perform well at their new clubs can BHA continue demanding big fees, so they take efforts to ensure they're sending players to the right spots.

I could be way off the mark, but it's concerning how poorly ex-Chelsea players are performing. From a purely tribalistic lens, it's good to sell lemons to rivals, but as a club reliant on selling players, we need a reputation as a place where you can buy reliable players from.

Getting Scott in January would be a no-brainer move. It was remarkable to see the difference Henderson - old, nothing special but capable of doing the basics correctly - made next to Caicedo. I thought Reece and Lavia would suffice, but I had overestimated them.

What I'm going to say is going to piss people off, but we may need to start having difficult conversations about Reece soon. I sympathize with his injuries, but he's no longer at his past levels even when fit. I'm not saying we need to sell him, but maybe we start thinking.

Just thinking out loud, I wonder if this version of the PL is arguably the most competitive league in football history. The depth of teams is just ridiculous. Brentford A (today's fixture) is tough enough to be a CL QF, and it's just another PL match-day.

Got an enormous amount of respect for Ethan Ampadu. He's always been a star talent, but his career almost got thrown into the gutter with a bunch of nonsensical loans to relegation teams. For him to hold steady, pay his dues and rise to the top is amazing.

I look at the hype machine/media system in Brazil (or other countries where clubs need to sell to survive) and get genuinely sad. Estevao is playing exactly like how you'd expect a 19 y/o to. He's also playing the right amount. The noise around him comes from bad-faith actors.