The Brighton Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Myles Lewis-Skelly is a medical away from Brighton
The deal with Arsenal is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Brighton rebuffed over Kevin Schade
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brentford have kept their man, and Brighton go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Arsenal 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Eyes on Pascal Groß again
The phone has started ringing about Pascal Groß again, and this time the name on the line is Arsenal. Brighton are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market10 Aug 2026
Brighton sign Josh King, one for the future
Josh King is 19, and Brighton have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bart Verbruggen raises the bar for Brighton
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Brighton heard it as anything else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bart Verbruggen signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bart Verbruggen and Brighton agree another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bart Verbruggen 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Brad Collins gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Brad Collins has just signed for Brighton, and for once the answer mattered.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Brighton
- The dugout Ferdi Kadıoğlu asks for a word with the manager
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Josh King