Lewis Dunk

Central Defender - Brighton
17 Aug 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Lewis Dunk

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The Brighton Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

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 targets

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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

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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