Stephen Price

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Marked for Stephen Price

491 Edition

The Brighton Post

24 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Olivier Boscagli 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Stephen Price out for 17 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brighton will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Georginio Rutter yet — 8.44

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.44 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Ferdi Kadıoğlu 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.

Squad

Words at Brighton training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kaoru Mitoma 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.

Match

Brighton make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match

Brighton find a way past West Bromwich Albion

West Bromwich Albion made Brighton work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Yankuba Minteh

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.50, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Market

The Brajan Gruda story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Brajan Gruda signs something — a contract at Brighton or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

Back issues
490 Edition

The Brighton Post

17 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Brighton through in the cup

A 4‑1 win over Sheffield United, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Both of them Nathaniel-Junior Brown's — 8.55

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.55, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

A fracture rules Stephen Price out for 24 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brighton will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Andrew Robinson at 21 — 8.58

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Andrew Robinson did not need any: 8.58, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Yankuba Minteh

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Brighton

Ferdi Kadıoğlu 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.

Squad

Stefanos Tzimas 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Timothy Harris

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

The run at home goes on for Brighton

8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

In brief

489 Edition

The Brighton Post

10 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Stephen Price breaks a bone — 32 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Kaoru Mitoma wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Brighton hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Ferdi Kadıoğlu 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Yankuba Minteh

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at Brighton training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kaoru Mitoma 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.

Market

Brighton may not be able to give Mauricio Ponce what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Mauricio Ponce wants continental football; whether Brighton can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Brighton pick somebody else ahead of Kaoru Mitoma

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market

The Georginio Rutter story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Georginio Rutter signs something — a contract at Brighton or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Match

Brighton draw a blank against Arsenal

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Arsenal defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief