The Brighton Post
Squad23 Aug 2027
Matt O'Riley damages knee ligaments — 107 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 107 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A one-man rearguard from Bart Verbruggen
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market23 Aug 2027
Business is business: Adam Webster goes
Sheffield paid $9.5M and Brighton took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market23 Aug 2027
Amine Bassi asks to leave Brighton
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Carlos Baleba at Brighton
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Carlos Baleba is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Bart Verbruggen 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Kaoru Mitoma runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
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.
Match21 Aug 2027
The run at home goes on for Brighton
9 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
In brief
- Market Benjamin Marshall steps up from the Brighton academy
- Market One of our own: Simon Ellis joins the Brighton first team
- Boardroom A promise the Brighton board did not keep