The Brighton Post
Squad25 Jan 2027
Bart Verbruggen is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Bart Verbruggen: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match20 Jan 2027
Brighton through in the cup
A 0‑0 win over Tottenham, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Wilson Odobert runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market25 Jan 2027
Borussia Mönchengladbach watching Bart Verbruggen
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Brighton have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market25 Jan 2027
Brighton say no — this time
The offer from Chelsea for Chema Andrés 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Brighton
Kaoru Mitoma 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Pascal Struijk did the work nobody counts — 7.14
14 combined actions and 7.14. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Ferdi Kadıoğlu 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 Jan 2027
Brighton may not be able to give Wilson Odobert what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Wilson Odobert wants continental football; whether Brighton can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
In brief
- Match Brighton find a way past Fulham
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Reiss Nelson at his very best
- Player ratings One of those days for Kaoru Mitoma