The Brighton Post
Squad20 Oct 2036
Babis Kostoulas 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 ratings20 Oct 2036
Facundo Buonanotte runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad20 Oct 2036
Words at Brighton training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Evan Ferguson 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.
Squad20 Oct 2036
Simon Mitchell gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Simon Mitchell has just signed for Brighton, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings20 Oct 2036
Babis Kostoulas was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.68. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings20 Oct 2036
Yankuba Minteh was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.54. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings20 Oct 2036
Evan Ferguson in the eights
A performance of 8.33 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market20 Oct 2036
Simon Mitchell arrives at Brighton as the heir apparent
Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Simon Mitchell is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.
Squad20 Oct 2036
When it matters, Yankuba Minteh plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Match Brighton share the spoils with Manchester United
- Market Babis Kostoulas linked with a move away
- Market Vitaly Semenov leaves for nothing