Brighton model is based on buying young talent and selling so loans are not great for them because they have it reduces the numbers they can buy and sellThat’s not a sustainable model for them when they know had Colwill been signed instead he is worth 60m+ in this market.
It’s great they got Europe, but we will have to disagree on this point, I’m sure they won’t make this mistake again.
Maybe I will be proven wrong in a few days and we here about a loan with no buy option but I highly doubt it.
Having said that a loan is basically a free player they might even get him on the cheap afterwards they play might be desperate to go there afterwards rather than somewhere else if not good enough for us. Of course they might have made the player more valuable by making him better but they have also reduced the risks involved and they can always just go for another player after the loan if he is not expansive because he has been a success so it’s not cost them anything so it not as you suggest