Tony Bloom: We are under no pressure to sell our best players

Brighton and Hove Albion chairman Tony Bloom insists they will not be offloading players this summer despite additional financial pressure caused by coronavirus.
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The club’s chairman anticipates a quieter and unpredictable transfer window this summer as the Premier League remains in shutdown due to the global pandemic.

Match day income has disappeared and what precisely will happen with the TV revenue remains unclear - particularly if clubs are unable to fulfil the remaining fixtures.

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Last summer Albion spent approximately £60m on their key signings, bringing in Leandro Trossard, Neal Maupay, Adam Webster and Aaron Mooy (initially on loan).

Brighton and Hove Albion owner and chairman Tony BloomBrighton and Hove Albion owner and chairman Tony Bloom
Brighton and Hove Albion owner and chairman Tony Bloom

Bloom does not expect to be as active in the next window - whenever that maybe - but he also feels the upcoming period will not be the best time to sell either.

“We don’t have to cash in, per se," said Bloom speaking on video conference. “And it may not be the best window to sell players.

“We don’t know how the market will look. We don’t know when the market will be.

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"I think it will be quite quiet. I don’t see us being as active as in previous seasons.

“I don’t think the market will be nearly as active and I think the total transfers will be a very small percentage of what it was in the previous couple of summers.”

He added: “There’s no doubt if you were going to sell a player in this transfer window coming up and you were expecting to be getting £15 million, that you’re going to get less than that.

“How much less, I have no idea. It depends on how the next few months play out.”

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