The Brighton Post
Market17 Aug 2026
Birmingham 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.
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
A move Lucas França would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Lucas França is living that version at Brighton, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Brighton training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Solly March 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Thomas Davis steps up from the Brighton academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thomas Davis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
Brighton promote Alexander Pearson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alexander Pearson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Anthony Smith joins the Brighton first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anthony Smith is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yankuba Minteh gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Brighton
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Lucas França