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Brighton have made more than £360m from player sales in TWO seasons after Moises Caicedo's £115m Chelsea move... they have a knack of selling for a huge profit and their business model is the envy of the Premier League

Trying to identify the origin point of where Brighton's success began is a complex task. There are so many moments that make a football club what it is.

Robbie Reinelt's 62nd-minute goal against Hereford on May 3 1997 has to be up there. That was the goal that kept a homeless Brighton, playing their fixtures 70 miles away at Gillingham's Priestfield Stadium, in the Football League - at Hereford's expense.

You might point to the arrival of owner Tony Bloom in 2009, or Chris Hughton in 2014, or Graham Potter in 2019, or Roberto de Zerbi in 2022.