In the past three years, Brighton has almost become a “transit station” for Chelsea, not only about players but also superior personnel. In total, the Blues spent more than £ 257 million to recruit employees involved in the southern team, the most prominent are the Marc Cucurella, Moises CaiCedo, Robert Sanchez and recently Joao Pedro.
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It all started when Paul Winstanley, Head of Brighton's Trach Division, was invited by Chelsea to be a global recruiting and transfer director at the end of 2022. A few months earlier, Chelsea also spent 25 million euros, a record fee for a coach at that time to break the contract of Graham Potter, taking him and a training team to Stamford Bridge. Shortly thereafter, they continued to “stole” Sam Jewell, who replaced Winstanley in Brighton.
Chelsea in Todd Boehly & Behdad Eghbali pursued the “data management” model as Brighton has been successfully applied. They are not afraid to learn a streamlined, effective and modern system, which has discovered and raised many cheap names into stars. The fact that the faces like CaiCedo, Cucurella or Joao Pedro were followed by Winstanley from the Brighton period that made the Chelsea leadership believed that these were “verified” deals.
However, not all contracts are successful. Graham Potter was dismissed less than a season, Cucurella had been severely decided before finding a recent form. Even so, Chelsea constantly “withdrew” Brighton, because more than a transfer relationship, this is a sign that they are trying to import both football and operating culture philosophy, which Brighton has built sustainably for many years.