World Cup Sting and Silverware Dreams: Bart Verbruggen’s Brighton Vow Ninety minutes in the Vienna sunshine, a pre-season friendly against Strasbourg, and Bart Verbruggen was exactly where he wanted to be: back in a Brighton shirt. Only weeks earlier the Holland goalkeeper had been at the World Cup in the United States; now he is […]
Rushworth Seals Permanent Coventry Move as Brighton Wish Keeper Well Carl Rushworth has completed a permanent move to Coventry City, with Brighton confirming the goalkeeper’s exit on Tuesday. The Seagulls say they respect the 25-year-old’s desire for regular Premier League football, with Frank Lampard’s newly promoted Sky Blues moving to make his loan spell permanent. […]
Brighton Set-Pieces: The Edge the Albion Are Chasing in Vienna Two-nil down to Strasbourg in the closing stages of a pre-season friendly, and the striking thing was not the scoreline but the sound. As the Seagulls trudged back to the centre circle you could hear them sorting it out among themselves — an urgent, orderly […]
Solly March Eyes a Premier League Return After Brighton Exit There is something jarring about picturing Solly March training on his own. For the best part of a decade he was one of the most familiar sights in blue and white, a one-club man who racked up 300 appearances for Brighton before being released at […]
Brighton’s Conference League Play-off Draw Confirmed Brighton have discovered their route into Europe after Monday’s draw in Nyon handed them a Conference League play-off tie against either Cluj or Tromso. The Seagulls will travel to Romania or Norway for the first leg before hosting the return at the Amex on Thursday 27 August, with tickets […]
Brighton Injury Update: Mitoma, Ferguson and Tzimas Progress Fabian Hürzeler has delivered an encouraging Brighton injury update on Kaoru Mitoma, Evan Ferguson and Stefanos Tzimas as the Seagulls switch their focus to Saturday’s home friendly against Roma. The head coach confirmed all three are working through rehab programmes, with Mitoma now back on the south […]
Pascal Gross Challenges Brighton’s Young Guns to Step Up Pascal Gross stepped up to take his penalty twice against Strasbourg on Saturday – and buried it both times. It was a small moment in a pre-season friendly, but it said plenty about the role the Germany midfielder intends to play for the Seagulls this season. […]
Strasbourg: Five Things We Spotted as Brighton Won in Vienna A pre-season friendly against Strasbourg in the Austrian sunshine was never going to settle the big questions of Brighton’s summer, but the Seagulls’ dramatic 4-3 win over 120 minutes at the Austrian FA training centre in Vienna offered plenty to chew on. A game that […]
Vuskovic: The One ‘Weakness’ Brighton’s Record Signing Is Working On When Brighton smashed their transfer record to bring Vuskovic to the Amex this summer, they were buying one of European football’s most coveted teenage defenders. Now the man who watched him grow up in the Bundesliga has pinpointed the single area the Croatian is still […]
Tommy Watson has left Brighton on loan, joining Leicester City for the 2026-27 season in search of regular football. The move sees Tommy Watson head to a Foxes side chasing an immediate return from League One, having suffered successive relegations, with the winger absent from the Albion squad that beat Strasbourg in Vienna this week. […]
Welbeck Chelsea Move Confirmed as Brighton Bid Emotional Farewell The Danny Welbeck Chelsea transfer has been confirmed, bringing an emotional end to almost six years at the Amex. The former England forward the Seagulls’ leading scorer last season has joined Chelsea on a two-year deal for an undisclosed fee, having left Brighton’s pre-season camp in […]
Brighton Strasbourg: Seagulls Fight Back to Win 4-3 in Austria Brighton produced a stirring pre-season comeback in Austria, fighting back from 2-0 down to beat French top-flight side Strasbourg 4-3 in Vienna. The Brighton Strasbourg friendly, staged at the Austrian FA’s headquarters, saw the Seagulls answer Fabian Hürzeler’s call for set-piece efficiency, scoring from two […]