I predict that this is the tipping point for Brighton. We've been there before with over-reaching and ending up with resentment in the dressing room. This is what will do it for this lot. The nature of chasing the top six and trying to compete in Europe leads to batshit stupid decisions like this.
They're essentially a shitter version of us at our peak but they will fail back to nothing land with nothing to show for it.
Without success each year or a huge fan base, it's simply not sustainable, as we found out.
We were lauded as the best run club for a few years but all it took was a couple of poor boardroom decisions and poor transfer windows and we were ****ed.
Brighton will be exactly the same as players will now demand big wages, as proven in this instance, and teams will want big transfer fees or sell on fees at least - they've had their time under the radar but not any more.
They don't have the natural revenue streams to support a few transfer failures - their fans are fickle as **** as I can remember them booing under Potter at times, despite them being at their highest ever plave at that time, so they will soon be playing in a half empty stadium again when they're mid table at best.
It will be interesting how things play out now as there is no way players like Dunk are going to be happy about being paid half as much as some newbie who has done nothing to get them where they are.
It will also be interesting on the pitch too as the European campaign will add a different challenge to them with the extra games and they also now appear to be similar to how we were on the pitch in that they are a very lightweight team now - not much of a physical presence now and we could see more teams shit house them like Everton did last season and West Ham already this one.