{"id":796014,"date":"2026-10-08T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796014\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:30:09","slug":"how-brighton-attract-and-develop-the-best-young-players-ahead-of-their-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796014\/","title":{"rendered":"How Brighton attract and develop the best young players ahead of their rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fruits of the policy this season can be seen this season, with two players signed in the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Malick Yalcouye, a \u00a36m signing from Gothenburg, spent the past two years out on loan, first with Sturm Graz in Austria and then with Swansea City in the Championship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old has two Premier League goals in his first five appearances. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ibrahim Osman, a \u00a317m capture from Danish side Nordsjaelland, was with Feyenoord in the Netherlands, Auxerre in France and Championship side Birmingham City. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old winger has made three substitute appearances so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Malik&#8217;s had a really good start to the season,&#8221; Cave said. &#8220;Osman is another young player who has had three loans now and then has come back into the squad for this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re good examples and role models of a commitment to their own development, having an attitude and a desire to want to get better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now we&#8217;re starting to see them delivering in the Premier League for us which is a fantastic success story but real testament to them and their hard work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One to watch this season is Matias Orozco, an 18-year-old who cost \u00a33.75m from Deportivo Calli. He is with Castellon, who sit second in the Spanish second division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defensive midfielder was handed his first senior caps for Colombia during the current international break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We do a lot of work in analysing the right clubs, coaches, leagues, understanding how complex it is, to find the right destination,&#8221; Cave added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Depending on where that player is in their career, what areas of their game we&#8217;re looking to help develop, or as just part of their maturity and experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fruits of the policy this season can be seen this season, with two players signed in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}