Why aren't there more clubs like Brighton and Brentford in England?

[dronefromsector7G]

You can't compare Brentford and Brighton with Ajax, Benfica and Porto because they are the apex predators of their leagues.

Benfica are a giant club, but they play in Portugal. They sell any player good enough to play in the top leagues. Gonçalo Ramos will probably be off within the year for £50m plus

 

[mexico1970]

Benfica are a giant club, but they play in Portugal. They sell any player good enough to play in the top leagues. Gonçalo Ramos will probably be off within the year for £50m plus

Yup, and Ajax have been a feeder club for as long as I can remember, the great Johann Cruyff.

Copy and paste but here at some of the players.

The Ajax youth system is famous for having produced and still producing many great Dutch internationals like Sjaak Swart, Johan Cruijff, Frank Rijkaard, Dennis Bergkamp, Frank and Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids, Clarence Seedorf, Patrick Kluivert, Rafael van der Vaart, Wesley Sneijder, John Heitinga, Nigel de Jong

 

[pee dubya]

Because football is full of idiots.

In all seriousness, it's financial pressure at the root if this I think.

The cost of relegation, the reward of promotion. It leads to short-term thinking and decisions.

Developing and more importantly sticking to a clear and coherent strategy seems very difficult for most clubs. A bad patch of form and the pressure builds insanely quickly.

When you get an accumulation of short-termist decisions, you just end up in a mess. Everton are a fantastic example at the moment.

No clear recruitment strategy, no clear managerial strategy, no clear style of play, bad bad football.

There are concepts that seems so simple, yet are forgotten.

Brighton have a style play, they recruit players that fit that style, that makes those players look really good, they sell them for lots of money because they look good. When the manager leaves, they recruit another manager that has a similar style of play, hence you don't need to completely overhaul the squad.

It's not really that complicated, yet so many clubs get it so so wrong.

 

[blueparrot]

Rhere have been other that do it and there will be others, partly down to how well clubs a re run and having football people in the right positions.
One advantage Brentford and Brighton have too is geography, the south east will be more attractive to players from overseas than say Burnley Birmingham Sheffield Middlesborough.

 

[Akira]

Largely down to having a clear and good recruitment strategy, and handing the reins of the team to a capable manager who can bring out the best in the acquisiitions.

Brentford have quite a number of decent acquisitions from Denmark, so it's pretty clear where they are mostly doing their shopping. Even their current manager is Danish.

Brighton buys cheap to sell high. They probably have a very efficient scouting network. Again handing them to a good coach can turn 18mil Cucurella into 65mil. They are also like us, where the top is very clear on what football they want the club to play.

I'll add a mention for Wolves. I think they established some unwritten (maybe not, idk) partnership with Jorge Mendes, who is able to secure them cheap Portuguese players on his books, and sometimes even get them managers (Nuno, Bruno Lage).

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Why aren't there more clubs like Brighton and Brentford in England?

When I saw the thread title I thought it meant more teams beginning with Br.

I could only think of Bradford and the Bristol pair.

 

[burning blue soul]

Because football is full of idiots.

In all seriousness, it's financial pressure at the root if this I think.

The cost of relegation, the reward of promotion. It leads to short-term thinking and decisions.

Developing and more importantly sticking to a clear and coherent strategy seems very difficult for most clubs. A bad patch of form and the pressure builds insanely quickly.

When you get an accumulation of short-termist decisions, you just end up in a mess. Everton are a fantastic example at the moment.

No clear recruitment strategy, no clear managerial strategy, no clear style of play, bad bad football.

There are concepts that seems so simple, yet are forgotten.

Brighton have a style play, they recruit players that fit that style, that makes those players look really good, they sell them for lots of money because they look good. When the manager leaves, they recruit another manager that has a similar style of play, hence you don't need to completely overhaul the squad.

It's not really that complicated, yet so many clubs get it so so wrong.

I agree with what you say.

I would add that many of the European feeder clubs are big fish in their own small ponds. They will pull local and international players with potential, but no real experience, to them.
Their niche position allows the debuting of players that would not get the time at premier league clubs that are under such instant pressure.
Look at Dortmund. They are doing this to great effect.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Why aren't there more clubs like Brighton and Brentford in England?

When I saw the thread title I thought it meant more teams beginning with Br.

I could only think of Bradford and the Bristol pair.

The pair of Bristols, in fact.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

The pair of Bristols, in fact

Speaking of of Bristols, BREntford ASTon villa match is nothing compared to this one.

 

[paska]

And now we are theirs, haha.

Nah we just sent a couple of players down to our B team ;)