The fact is that spending a lot of money to recruit players does not guarantee a club to be successful as you can see so far Brighton has not been fully consistent, Manchester United and Chelsea have also spent a lot of money they have not been able to compete in the title race, buying a lot of players is not the only best solution they also need to hone the abilities of their players to be more effective and the coach factor also has a big influence on team performance the foundation lies in the coach's strategy and the players only do what their coach says if the coach can't provide a good strategy it's useless for them to buy a lot of players they are just wasting money.
This happened because they were too quick to sell players just because they wanted the benefits they had which resulted in De Zerbi inevitably becoming a victim to be fired by Brighton before.
Brighton had always been one of the clubs that produced stars and they became one of the dark horse clubs that were very wary in the De Zerbi era but mistakes in transfers that released too many star players such as Trosard, Caicedo, MacAllister, Bisouma, Cucurella or even Ben White actually became the beginning of destruction where they increasingly lost momentum because their core players left and there was no good backup as a replacement.
Now they are back to trying from scratch but of course it takes time so for this season I don't think we can expect much more from Brighton as it would be great for them to be in the top 10 as well.