The Brighton Post
Market17 Aug 2026
Diego Gómez moves on
Liverpool pay $20.6M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market17 Aug 2026
Joël Veltman moves on
Derby County pay $3.8M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market17 Aug 2026
Brighton turn down Rotherham United for Costinha
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
Randall Rodríguez gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Randall Rodríguez has just signed for Brighton, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Lewis Dunk 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Graduation day at Brighton
- Market Charles Parker steps up from the Brighton academy
- Squad Stefanos Tzimas stays put
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Brighton