Rory Smith
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1,467 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Rory Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is a player you've invested money in already, and then they sell him,
for 50 million-ish.
Use some of that money to buy Jean-Paul Van Hecke for 60 million and then potentially have to buy Vuskovic back to maybe even replace Van Hecke.
That is the reason Brighton are one end of the table and Spurs are at the other in one transfer.
I mean, it's an astonishingly odd thing to do just because the manager has worked with Van Hecker before.
And Brighton's secret, and I think there is a difference in the way they work to Brentford, because Brentford, I think, are much less...
motivated by recouping transfer value.
But Brighton's secret is basically they have realised that there is an unlimited supply of footballers on the planet, that there are always more footballers.
Brighton have said, specifically, because they're in Europe, they set out to run a slightly deeper squad than normal this season.
And Brentford obviously missed out on Europe on the last day, last season, just.
So that might be kind of the explanation for why one seems busier than the other.
But I think that there is a difference.
We always think of them as being part of the Bermuda Triangle, is the three B teams, Bournemouth,
Brighton.
of this kind of trap for the big clubs.
But I think Brentford and Brighton's models are quite different.
Brentford, if you think about it, don't...
they're not really about signing players to sell them on as much as Brighton are.
There's been a couple who've done, and Buemo's the big one, and Wisser, although they were really reluctant to lose Johan Wisser.
It wasn't like they were happy to see Wisser go and get his move to Newcastle.
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