Marked for Jonathan Dixon
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings10 Sep 2035
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.14, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad10 Sep 2035
A fracture rules Ryley Reynolds out for 53 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.
Market10 Sep 2035
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad10 Sep 2035
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.
Squad10 Sep 2035
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.
Match8 Sep 2035
Luton Town made Brighton work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings10 Sep 2035
Ninety minutes of Yankuba Minteh at his very best
Marked 8.15. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Brighton.
Match8 Sep 2035
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Georginio Rutter had Brighton level again within 4 minutes, and Luton Town never got to play with a lead at all.
Squad10 Sep 2035
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Dixon and Brighton agree another 4 years.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad27 Aug 2035
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad27 Aug 2035
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.
Squad27 Aug 2035
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.
Squad27 Aug 2035
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Filip Vydra is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings27 Aug 2035
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings27 Aug 2035
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.91 on the card, and the Brighton support went home talking about one name.
Market27 Aug 2035
Everyone has stopped pretending: Lincoln City will make the call about Jonathan Dixon this week. Brighton have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Market27 Aug 2035
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Brighton know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The terraces27 Aug 2035
The stands have heard the Brajan Gruda talk too
What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Brighton would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Jul 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Matthew Wilson
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Brighton lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Jul 2035
Ryley Reynolds breaks a bone — 124 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 124 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market2 Jul 2035
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Brighton is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Jul 2035
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mats Wieffer and Brighton agree another 2 years.
Market2 Jul 2035
Brighton may not be able to give Yasin Ayari what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Yasin Ayari wants continental football; whether Brighton can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad2 Jul 2035
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Jun 2035
Matthew Wilson damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 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.
Squad25 Jun 2035
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.
Market25 Jun 2035
Brighton say no — this time
The offer from Notts County for Michael Morris 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.
Market25 Jun 2035
Jacob Howard has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Brighton they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Kaoru Mitoma 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.
Market25 Jun 2035
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Brighton have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.