{"id":684522,"date":"2026-01-09T13:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684522\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:12:18","slug":"tony-bloom-eyes-europe-and-dreams-of-brighton-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684522\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bloom eyes Europe and dreams of Brighton trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The club chairman is keen for a return to Europe and would be delighted if that came via winning silverware.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He confirmed his ongoing ambitions for the club after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/sport\/25752281.brighton-hove-albion-reveal-losses-big-spending-summer\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcing a \u00a354.4 million loss for the 2024-25 season<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The figures include most of a big-spending summer of 2024 and follow two years in which the club recorded profits totalling about \u00a3200 million.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Albion go to Manchester United in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Four points from two games over the past week, including a draw at Manchester City, have kept them in the midst of a highly competitive race for European places via Premier League finishing position.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bloom said: \u201cWe enjoyed our time in European competition and aim to push regularly for a European spot \u2014 and, of course, we dream of winning the first major trophy in our history.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Easier said than done, but we will keep striving.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWhatever unfolds by the end of May, I\u2019m confident we\u2019re in for more memorable moments as we continue the next stage of our journey together.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Albion head coach Fabian Hurzeler shares his chairman\u2019s targets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking ahead of the Old Trafford trip, Hurzeler said: \u201cWe always say that we are a club with big ambitions, especially our owner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe really tries to live it and therefore we have to fulfil these kinds of expectations, but that is something we love to do.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe go there, we try to give our best and then we see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The club chairman is keen for a return to Europe and would be delighted if that came via&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-684522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115865317822714862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}