Manoel

Central Defender - Brighton
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Marked for Manoel

4 Edition

The Brighton Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match22 Aug 2026

Solly March breaks Nottingham Forest hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Solly March scored in the 87th minute, Nottingham Forest had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Brighton took the lot.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Brighton

Kaoru Mitoma was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Solly March falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match22 Aug 2026

Brighton find a way past Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest made Brighton work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Pascal Groß is still paying for one afternoon at Brighton

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A smaller club would suit Pascal Groß now

He has had enough of the noise. Whether Brighton can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Solly March takes the honours

Marked 7.48 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Brighton had the best player on the pitch.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Georginio Rutter runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Off the pace: Pascal Groß

A mark of 5.24 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Brighton Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Abu Kamara is a Brighton player

The fee is $4.4M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Hull City drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market17 Aug 2026

Brighton turn down Torres for Fábio Martins

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Kaoru Mitoma in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Brighton this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Brighton training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Solly March is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Brighton

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market17 Aug 2026

Brighton promote Adam Palmer from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Adam Palmer has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market17 Aug 2026

Brighton promote Paul Williams from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paul Williams has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Georginio Rutter

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Stefanos Tzimas stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Stefanos Tzimas and Brighton agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

  • Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Brighton
  • The terraces The spotlight tightens on Manoel