Lewis Dunk

Central Defender - Brighton
8 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Lewis Dunk

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The Brighton Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Brighton say no — this time

The offer from Ajax for Kaoru Mitoma 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.

Squad

Lewis Dunk: 18 seasons and counting

471 appearances across 18 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Brighton know exactly what they have.

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

Kaoru Mitoma signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kaoru Mitoma commits to Brighton for another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Brighton

Pascal Groß and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Brighton

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lewis Dunk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief