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BBC News
29-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Hurzeler 'has been a revelation'
Former Brighton player Warren Aspinall believes head coach Fabian Hurzeler has passed his first Premier League season 'with flying colours'. The 32-year-old is the league's youngest permanent manager and behind Chelsea, named on average the second youngest squad in the division. "I think he's been a revelation, at the age he is to come to a different country and a different league," Aspinall told BBC Radio Sussex's 'Albion Unlimited' podcast."First time in the Premier League - he doesn't know the pace of the league but he soon found out. He's come to a different country with a different culture. Lots of things going on and he didn't have many background staff with him to start off with."We've had little dips and things and I think the big dip for me was losing in the FA Cup when we lost 4-3 on penalties [to Nottingham Forest in the quarter-final] and that deflated us quite a lot."So it was a tough season for him but he's come out with flying colours."Listen to the full chat here
BBC News
21-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
🎧 'No sulkers' at Brighton
On the latest episode of Albion Unlimited, former Brighton players Guy Butters and Warren Aspinall discuss the team spirit at the club and impact of the have had more goal involvements via substitutes than any other team in the Premier League this season (21).Former defender Butters said: "When you are on the bench you're literally chomping to get on. You want to get on there and prove what you can do. Some players come on and sulk - I don't see that at Brighton - I see them all wanting to go on there and get in the box."You're always going to have certain personalities that clash in every single squad but this squad that we've got now, you haven't got many sulkers in there, it doesn't seem to have too many of those sort of players in there. That could go down as well to the scouting group, the people that do their homework on what a player is like not only on the pitch but away from it as well."Aspinall added: "We used to have a great team spirit, even if you weren't in the team. What I see now in this Brighton side is we've got no sulkers. We've got nobody thinking 'I'm on the bench, I'm sulking because I'm not playing'. Or someone going on there and not passing, waving their hand up in the air when they don't get the ball. I've not seen that for the last few months."Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds
BBC News
14-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Welbeck 'our precious gem'
Former Brighton forward Warren Aspinall says Danny Welbeck is "our precious gem" after the striker's latest goal helped Albion beat Wolves at the that strike, the 32-year-old reached double figures in the Premier League for the first time in his on BBC Radio Sussex's Albion Unlimited podcast, Aspinall said: "You have to take your hats off to the medical staff saying, 'Look this is our precious gem - we need to keep him polished'."He's a true professional on and off the pitch. He's great for the dressing room and great for the youngsters coming through."He's done very well with that penalty. He had to wait a long time."BBC Radio Sussex's Johnny Cantor added: "I am delighted for him. He's a crucial player."He does so much work outside of the box in link-up play. He's got 14 goal involvements, 10 goals and four assists. That's only two behind Joao Pedro, who's got 10 goals and six assists and ahead of everyone else - Kaoru Mitoma is next with 12 and Minteh with to the full episode on BBC Sounds
BBC News
02-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Can Seagulls beat Newcastle again?
Former Brighton striker Warren Aspinall spoke to the Albion Unlimited podcast before Sunday's match against Newcastle: "I think if we can score first, we will win the game convincingly. They [Newcastle] crumble - we saw that against Aston Villa. "They haven't got the pace at the back to chase games. Once [Kieran] Trippier and [Tino] Livramento get forward, [Fabian] Schar goes wandering and we can really exploit them."Brighton will have a spring in their step and the confidence is there after the comeback [against West Ham]. There is togetherness again and there are no individuals playing for themselves."I'm going for a 3-1 convincing win."Listen to the full episode
BBC News
30-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'He has got everything, but a lot to learn'
Former Brighton striker Warren Aspinall spoke to BBC Radio Sussex's Albion Unlimited podcast about midfielder Carlos Baleba: "He's got amazing attributes. For a young player, he's got everything. What frustrates me is that when he plays, it's like he's playing with his mates in the park. He knows he can switch it on and off whenever he wants."He sometimes gets caught out and Lewis [Dunk] has to be on to him. He's got a lot of things to learn because you have to be disciplined in that position. His pace has got him out of trouble on a couple of his goal against West Ham: "The bend on it was incredible - he's got that goal in his locker. He's clever, he bent it round the defender and used him as a wall so that the keeper couldn't see the ball. It was a wonderful strike."Listen to the full podcast here on BBC Sounds
