Thomas Wright

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The Brighton Post

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad25 Dec 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Henry Kasvosve

20 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.

Player ratings25 Dec 2028

Mateo Joseph scores twice — 8.61

Two goals and a mark of 8.61 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match23 Dec 2028

Brighton make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Brighton have 4 straight wins of it.

The dugout25 Dec 2028

Thomas Wright says Brighton went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad25 Dec 2028

Tempers go at Brighton

Luka Vušković 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.

Squad25 Dec 2028

A row about effort at Brighton

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Félix was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match23 Dec 2028

Mateo Joseph sends Brighton past Aston Villa

It finished 2‑1, and it was Mateo Joseph’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Brighton.

Squad25 Dec 2028

Rodrigo Rêgo reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Player ratings25 Dec 2028

Nobody could get near Malick Fofana

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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  • The dugout A promise honoured at Brighton
  • Market Kaoru Mitoma linked with a move away
Back issues
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The Brighton Post

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets23 Aug 2027

Too dear: Brighton walk away from Mateo Retegui

$61.1M was the most the club would pay and PSV were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market23 Aug 2027

Brighton sign João Félix for $45.1M

The paperwork is done: João Félix joins from Braga in a deal worth $45.1M. Now comes the harder part.

Market23 Aug 2027

Brajan Gruda puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Brighton, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

Lewis Dunk keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Brighton may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad23 Aug 2027

João Félix arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. João Félix has, at Brighton, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad23 Aug 2027

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.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Real improvement from Luke Alker at Brighton

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Luke Alker is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom23 Aug 2027

Graduation day at Brighton

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

The terraces23 Aug 2027

Brighton spend $45.1M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $45.1M for João Félix, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

In brief