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Fair enough. In Dunk we have what appears to be essentially a one-club man and I hope he stands as an exception for the rest of his career. I assume we've had offers – I seem to remember Newcastle enquired when we were in the Championship? I'd be curious to see if, for example he goes to the...

Indeed. But another possibility is that you only last a few months in/running the first team, get shoved out of the picture when a new man comes in and doesn't share the vision of his predecessor, can't find another club due to the ludicrous money you're on, and waste a year or more of a career...

Maybe I'm out of touch, trueblue. But for me it's a pretty thin argument for people who are already earning extremely well. I'd hope other stuff matters too, in any walk of life.

Is that why they're in football, though, jc? Cucurella seemed to be desperate to go anywhere he could, so long as it was one of the wealthy powerhouses. Look how that's turned out. With a failure on their CVs, the range of 'passion projects' as you nicely name them that will be available to them...

Of course. People are headhunted in every industry. But at what point do you start to think you're in the right place? I've been in the position myself where I could have gone to bigger outfits for more money, but other considerations including work/life balance, corporate culture etc, and...

I accept the inevitability of this. But it does make you wonder if there's one of them, a single one of the staff below, say, Bloom and Barber (and maybe not even Barber) who would see the positives in staying where they are and trying to win something with Brighton? The culture of the club, the...