Brighton CEO Paul Barber Special

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Robbie Earle and Robbie Mustoe sit down with Brighton CEO and Deputy Chairman Paul Barber to discuss the south coast club's recent success and data driven approach to player and personnel recruitment

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this special edition of the two Robbie's podcast. I'm Robbie Musto and of course I'm joined by my mate Robbie Earl, but that's not all.
0:19.9	Today we are joined by a very special guest, Brighton and Hope Aboum's CEO and Deputy Chairman Paul Barber.
0:26.8	That's right, mostly Paul's been at the helmet Brighton since 2012 when he led the club in its rise from the championship
0:33.8	through to European contenders and in the Premier League. He's also helped
0:39.1	oversee a cutting-edge data-driven recruitment system that bought in and sold players like
0:44.0	Yves Bissuma, Alexis McAllister's, Leander Trossod, Moises, Cicaydeo to the South Coast
0:49.6	Club. And Paul, we're absolutely delighted and excited to have you here today.
0:57.7	And I'm just thinking that they don't do a Ballondor for CEOs, do they? Because I know 2012 you won CEO of the year.
1:01.2	In 2016, you won the sports executive of the year.
1:04.2	In 2023, you were given an OB by a coin for services to football.
1:08.9	So I was thinking maybe Ballandor contestant, if we did one for CEO.
1:13.7	Leave that to the real performers, Robbie.
1:16.7	Yeah, the guys on the pitch
1:18.0	and the most important people in the game
1:20.0	and, yeah, delighted to see those guys
1:23.4	get the recognition.
1:24.3	We just try and make things happen behind the scenes
1:27.1	and that's the best place for us, I think.
1:29.5	Paul, just in 2012, Paul, you've been abroad and in Vancouver, White Caps, part of the MLS at the time.
1:38.4	What was it that drew you to Brighton? And what was part of the challenge that you had going
1:44.0	in at the football club at that
1:45.3	time? I mean, 12 years ago from now. Yeah, I mean, first of all, I had a fantastic three,
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