The Brighton Post
Squad7 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Costinha
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Brighton lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Door shut on Kevin
Brighton asked and Fulham said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market7 Jun 2027
Real Madrid come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Brighton did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Jun 2027
Kaoru Mitoma raises the bar for Brighton
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Brighton heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Brighton
Kaoru Mitoma and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market7 Jun 2027
James Beadle comes home with the gloves
31 games away and 14 of them without conceding. Brighton sent a goalkeeper out to find him some football and have been handed a selection problem instead: the man in possession of the shirt now has somebody behind him who has spent a season being picked.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Brighton
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yankuba Minteh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market7 Jun 2027
A season away well spent by Malick Yalcouyé
35 games, 3 goals, and a squad option that has arrived without a fee attached. The interesting question at Brighton now is not whether he plays but who he displaces.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Brighton count the cost of losing Michael Dike
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The dugout Yankuba Minteh knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Mats Wieffer has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout No hiding place for Charlie Tasker