The Brighton Post
Market17 Aug 2026
Brighton sell Luka Vušković for $45.2M
Luka Vušković has left for Liverpool in a $45.2M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market17 Aug 2026
Brighton say no — this time
The offer from RB Leipzig for Bart Verbruggen was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $45.2M sale of Luka Vušković
He is going to Liverpool, the club has $45.2M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
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
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.
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
Benjamin Collins steps up from the Brighton academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamin Collins 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
One of our own: Oliver Howard joins the Brighton first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oliver Howard 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
Stefanos Tzimas stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Stefanos Tzimas and Brighton agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Brighton
- Squad Yasin Ayari knocks on the manager’s door