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We asked you for your views on how Brighton have started the season - and where you thought they might finish.

A whopping 61% of people predict the Seagulls to finish between sixth and 10th.

Here are some comments about the season:

Robin: Having seen all the games so far it is the increased intensity in their play that sticks out the most, particularly in the last portion of the game where they totally kept going. There was a great use of subs as well so dominated Everton, late winner against Man Utd, crushed Crawley, and had Arsenal hanging on. Season looks exciting.

Paul: Very positive start to the season and I'm feeling very optimistic about our prospects once all the new signings are available. I feel we've got a genuine chance to make the top four given the challenges faced by the other contenders

Steve: The way we attack is very different to De Zerbi's style. It's a quicker build up with lots more energy in the final third. We are more aggressive on the counter attack and although we lose the ball more often, it is those kind of risks you must take to score.

Sam: Got off to a flying start with really only one of the new signings being a regular starter already, with £200m worth of players to get up to speed. Very exciting.

Paul: Brighton have bought well in the transfer window. If the midfielders are good replacements for Gross and Gilmour they have a chance of finishing in the top six and to maybe win a cup. The attack is better than last season.

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Brighton have - once again - pulled out another worldie of a manager in Fabian Hurzeler that nobody knew about!

I didn't know much about him before he moved to the Premier League but he is doing a fantastic job.

We have seen their results and style of play against Manchester United and Arsenal, which showed from the early stages that he seems to be very good.

Hurzeler has said he likes to get on the same level as the players to understand them and in interviews has said he is not a dictator. He is drawing on the knowledge of his senior players, while also showing he will lead this team. Players respect that.

I finished my career at Reading and the manager there at the time was younger than me. How that works out is down to management style and your identity. If you are a waffler then you can't pull the wool over the senior players' eyes!

But thankfully Hurzeler has gone to Brighton with a clear identity and he has shown he has a great management style in terms of dealing with players.

People have got used to Brighton having a pleasing on the eye style of play and neutral fans like watching them. But football is about results and competition. The business in the summer transfer window showed that the club have looked at the foundations and structure knowing they can push on. And I am sure the fans are buzzing with the investments, as well as having a new young manager.

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Brighton forward Danny Welbeck has been nominated for the Premier League player of the month award for September.

Welbeck has started the season in fine form, scoring and assisting against Everton and finding the net against former team Manchester United as Fabian Hurzeler's side remain unbeaten after three games.

The dust has settled on the transfer window, the Premier League is well and truly back, and we are into the first international break of 2024-25.

So we want you to predict where Brighton will finish in the Premier League this season - thinking about the start to the campaign and summer transfer business.

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Football finance expert Kieran Maguire says Brighton chairman and owner Tony Bloom went "all in" during the recent transfer window, with the Seagulls spending anout £200m on incomings for the 2024-25 campaign.

"I think you have got to take the figures quoted in the media with a slight pinch of salt," he told the Albion Unlimited podcast. "As you would expect from a club owned by a poker wizard, Brighton keep their cards close to their chest.

"The rough consensus is around £196m [was spent] and the club could have potentially gone higher, as there were rumours about another deal going through just before the window closed.

"If you take a look at the club's previous transfer windows, since moving to the Premier League their spending has usually been in the region of £60-70m per year - recruiting, refreshing and upgrading in places.

"This is Tony Bloom going all in. He feels that it is the right point in time for the club. He has clearly embraced Europe and we got to see the way he was celebrating last season."

Among a large cluster of new signings were club record £40m signing Georginio Rutter from Leeds, £30m Yankuba Minteh from Newcastle and £25m Matt O'Riley from Celtic.

Maguire believes Bloom has sensed an opportunity for Brighton to nudge ahead of their rivals in the clamour for European football.

"There is also a group of clubs that have financial constraints, which don't exist at Brighton because they haven't been run in a prudent manner historically," he said. "So perhaps Tony Bloom feels now is the time to take advantage of other team's weaknesses.

"Newcastle United had to sell somebody. Leeds United had signed players in the Premier League but they had clauses which allowed them to leave. This is a function of modern football and Brighton played their cards at the right time.

"Things like this make you really proud to be a Brighton fan - to know that you are associated with people who have realised that they can't be bigger, so let's be smarter."

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It was fascinating to listen to Tony Bloom's chat with BBC Radio Sussex's Johnny Cantor on BBC Sounds.

Brighton have spent big this summer, £194m, which is the second highest behind Chelsea in the Premier League.

And while Bloom said he does not expect that to be repeated in the near future when some of the club's promising young players are expected to emerge, that outlay does come with increased expectation and scrutiny.

Bloom said he feels European qualification is a definite possibility given the seven clubs participating in expanded tournaments this season will have even more juggling to do, and obviously there are the domestic cups.

He also refused to back down from a belief Brighton's women's team can achieve top-four status, although Bloom acknowledged it is taking longer than envisaged due to the emergence of Manchester United.

Bloom has achieved so much as Brighton owner but it does not look as though he is ready to ease off just yet. His aims are as lofty as they have ever been.

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Brighton owner Tony Bloom spoke to the Albion Unlimited podcast about Brighton's busy summer transfer window:

"At the start of the window, we knew there was going to be quite a few incomings and changes. We probably didn't envisage quite as much, but I think the circumstances have allowed for this this. Some of the players who perhaps weren't available to us in the past became available.

"In the past two or three years, we may have lost some key players and not been able to replace them straight away, but this season we've managed to bring in lots of first-team players and invested in young players.

"We probably won't see something like this in the next two or three windows. If we lose key players in the future, hopefully we will have younger players coming through who have a great chance of making the first team."

Listen to the full interview with Bloom and more on BBC Sounds