The Brighton Post
Market23 Aug 2027
Newcastle United 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Moussa Doumbia hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Brighton can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Brajan Gruda is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Kaoru Mitoma
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Yankuba Minteh signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yankuba Minteh and Brighton agree another 5 years.
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
Words at Brighton training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ferdi Kadıoğlu 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.
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.
The terraces23 Aug 2027
Brighton supporters have found a favourite in Yankuba Minteh
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Yankuba Minteh has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Market Adam Hall steps up from the Brighton academy
- Market Brighton promote Benjamin Walker from within
- Boardroom A promise the Brighton board did not keep