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Wolves, who are still vying for their first Premier League win, welcome bogey team Brighton to Molineux this weekend. BBC Sport discusses some of the key talking points before Sunday's match.

"The question is, did we win one point or lose two?" said Wolves head coach Vitor Pereira after their 1-1 draw at Tottenham last Saturday. "My answer is we lost two points because the team showed that we came here to win the game, especially in the second half."

Wolves were agonisingly close to securing maximum points for the first time this season before Spurs equalised in the fourth minute of stoppage time and Pereira's side remain the only team in England's top five divisions without a league win.

But the performance was very encouraging and one player in gold certainly deserved to be on the winning side.

Winger Jhon Arias was the best player on the pitch last weekend and is starting to show why he was dubbed "The Colombian Pele" by supporters of his previous club Fluminense.

The 27-year-old, who joined for an initial £14.7m in the summer, created the most chances, had the most touches, completed the most passes and - to highlight his all-round performance - only his team-mate and defender Santiago Bueno attempted more tackles.

"I feel better with the team, with the ideas of the coach," said Arias this week. "It's a different league, so I'm still working to be better. My best version is coming."

Brighton have history on their side

Brighton will be on the road for a third successive match on Sunday and are seeking to register a hat-trick of away victories for the second time under head coach Fabian Hurzeler.

A 6-0 EFL Cup thrashing of Barnsley was followed by a 3-1 Premier League triumph at Stamford Bridge last weekend, and recent results suggests that another win is likely this weekend.

The south coast side have won four consecutive Premier League games at Wolves, a streak of away league wins which has only been bettered twice in the club's history. Brighton's best ever league run on the road also came at Molineux, with six victories between 1979 to 1991.

The Seagulls have struggled to keep shutouts in recent months and are one of just four teams this season without a top-flight clean sheet, along with Nottingham Forest, Manchester United and their opponents Wolves. In fact, they've managed just one in their last 18 Premier League games which came away at Wolves in May.

But despite history being on their side, Hurzeler is anticipating a tricky clash in the midlands.

"When you only look at the results, you might think it's easy but in every game I've seen so far from them [Wolves] they have had a chance to win it," said the 32-year-old German in his pre-match press conference. "They have played good football, have looked stable out of possession, and they don't give away a lot of chances."

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A decision on whether to scrap the Premier League's controversial Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) and adopt an "alternative system" is "coming up", says chief executive Richard Masters.

The current regulations, introduced in 2015-16 to prevent clubs from overspending, allow losses of £105m over a three-year reporting cycle.

However, they have been criticised by several top-flight teams for limiting their ability to invest.

BBC Sport has been told a decision on any changes is likely to be made at a meeting in November.

In February, clubs chose to continue with PSR for the current season.

However a squad cost ratio (SCR) system of financial control was adopted by the Premier League on a shadowing, non-binding basis.

SCR is similar to Uefa's existing financial rules and allows clubs to spend up to a percentage of their total revenues on squad-related costs.

Nine of the league's 20 clubs already have to comply with Uefa's SCR as a result of qualifying for Europe. Both Chelsea and Aston Villa were fined by Uefa in July for breaching the rules.

Asked about SCR at the Leaders sports conference in London, Masters said: "We are talking to our clubs about an alternative system. That's not to say we don't think the PSR system works."

He added: "It's about closer alignment with European regulation, which is squad cost ratio, which is a revenue test. In Uefa, it's now set at 70%. Our system will be 85% because we always want our clubs to have the ability to invest.

"The Premier League has been built on the back of investment in which international capital flows [are] coming in. We don't want that to be to be stifled off."

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Brighton defender Maxim De Cuyper spoke to BBC Radio Sussex about his start to life in the the Premier League: "It is a great atmosphere here - we have a nice team and nice staff so I have quietly settled in already.

"It is a bit of a surprise [how well I've settled in], as a player you know your own qualities, but you make a move to the best league in the world so there is always going to be a question mark. The adaptation has gone quite well and we have started really well. For sure, the physicality is the biggest adaptation for me and my body, in training and games."

Ahead of Sunday's match, he spoke highly of Wolves forward Tolu Arokodare, who De Cuyper played against in his native Belgium: "A striker who is very dangerous in the box. He is about two metres [tall] so he is very good with his head. He is also good in the build up and has good feet. He is pretty fast as well so he is all-round a good striker."

Listen to the full interview on BBC Sounds