James Milner

Defensive Midfielder - Retired
5 Mar 2027
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22 Edition

The Brighton Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Dec 2026

Pascal Groß breaks a bone — 57 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 57 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Solly March runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad28 Dec 2026

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.

Market28 Dec 2026

Brighton may not be able to give Mats Wieffer what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Mats Wieffer wants continental football; whether Brighton can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Words at Brighton training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lewis Dunk 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.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

The afternoon belonged to Ferdi Kadıoğlu

7.24, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Brighton had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad28 Dec 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting James Milner's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Match26 Dec 2026

Brighton draw a blank against Manchester United

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Manchester United defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Loan watch28 Dec 2026

4 goals on loan for Facundo Buonanotte

19 appearances at Leeds United and the goals keep coming. Brighton are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

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The Brighton Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad21 Dec 2026

A fracture rules Pascal Groß out for 65 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brighton will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market21 Dec 2026

Bart Verbruggen wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Match19 Dec 2026

Nobody wants to play Brighton right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Brighton

Ferdi Kadıoğlu 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.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Lewis Dunk 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.

Match19 Dec 2026

Matt O'Riley the difference as Brighton beat Nottingham Forest

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Matt O'Riley. 1‑0 against Nottingham Forest, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

The afternoon belonged to Matt O'Riley

7.60, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Brighton had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad21 Dec 2026

No hiding place for James Milner

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to James Milner, and the manager let it.

Boardroom21 Dec 2026

$260.0K lands at Brighton thanks to Michael Svoboda

A clause somebody insisted on years ago, in a negotiation nobody remembers, has just paid Brighton $260.0K. Michael Svoboda left a long time ago; the paperwork stayed.

In brief

18 Edition

The Brighton Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad30 Nov 2026

A fracture rules Pascal Groß out for 90 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brighton will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match28 Nov 2026

The wait goes on for Brighton

10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad30 Nov 2026

James Milner says Brighton went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad30 Nov 2026

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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Words at Brighton training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lewis Dunk 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.

Match28 Nov 2026

Brighton come up short against Aston Villa

Aston Villa left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Solly March runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Loan watch30 Nov 2026

Facundo Buonanotte keeps scoring at Leeds United

15 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Loan watch30 Nov 2026

Ibrahim Osman keeps scoring at Birmingham

9 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief