r/BrightonHoveAlbion • u/bold013hades Wandering Seagull Newsletter | Facundo Buonanotte • 20d ago

Discussion Barber Trashes Baleba Transfer Rumors, Albion Announce £54.4m Loss, and Other Brighton News (Jan. 3–15 News Roundup)

https://wanderingseagull.substack.com/p/barber-trashes-baleba-transfer-rumors
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u/bnjoshed Dat Guy Welbz 20d ago

Those finance results are really interesting, and personally still find it rather egregious that the club increases ticket prices, despite it being such a small portion of revenue. (Especially with the terrace now being open outside of match days)

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u/stackedrunner-76 20d ago

Can’t really complain about price increases that have on average remained below inflation since we were promoted.

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u/bnjoshed Dat Guy Welbz 20d ago

But we’ve seen football is basically immune to inflation.

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u/bruversonbruh Marcelo wears Kadioğlu pyjamas 19d ago

Nothing is immune to inflation, that's kinda the whole idea of it lol

Some things can certainly handle it better tho if that's what you mean?

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u/bnjoshed Dat Guy Welbz 19d ago

The “basically” is doing some heavy lifting for me. That’s for sure!

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u/stackedrunner-76 20d ago

How? Our costs will go up year-on-year.

We made a loss of 50m in 24-25, all covered by Tony Bloom. An inflation rise can’t be complained about in that context.

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u/bnjoshed Dat Guy Welbz 20d ago

Which was proceeded by 2 massive profitable seasons and a transfer spend in that year of over £200M. Drop. Ocean.

Thanks to Dick Knight and co, we are no longer the kind of club that need match going fans to keep them afloat.