Over the last few seasons Brighton have evolved into the most successful club in England in terms of buying, developing and selling players on for huge fees.
Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool are among the clubs that have spent big on Brighton players in recent years with many Celtic fans upset to see Matt O’Riley being sold to what is regarded as a smaller club in many ways.
The reality is that a move to Brighton is viewed as a stepping stone to the real top clubs, if Hearts could implement a similar scaled down version it could make them serious players in the Scottish game rather than hoping for third and being 30 or so points behind the SPFL champions.
Hibs already have a link up with Bournemouth, Dundee take players on loan from Burnley but a Brighton link up with serious investment could make Hearts a far stronger prospect than the club sitting in bottom place in the SPFL with one point from five matches.
It’s an interesting one for Scottish football. A lot of people will look to Tony Bloom and straight away go to Brighton and look at the recruitment there.
Listen, you can’t look at Hearts and say they’re going to be on the same page in terms of recruitment with Brighton.
But where you can look is Union St-Gilloise in Belgium and their rise under Tony Bloom and other people connected with the football club there, they’ve come up and caused problems to the big ones. If I was Rangers or Celtic I would be worried about this appointment.
