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  7. Flair players 'being hounded out' or 'we've kept our most creative'?

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    On Tuesday, our fan writer Scott McCarthy assessed the departures of Julio Enciso, Facundo Buonanotte and Pervis Estupinan during the summer transfer window.

    He suggested Brighton lost too many flair players as Fabian Hurzeler moulds the side more in his own image.

    Here are some of your comments:

    David: Absolutely. They are needed often as substitutes when backs are to the wall. But let's see if any of our new players develop those talents, then I will judge.

    Andrew: The current situation with our flair and game-changer players. I love Enciso and his unpredictable approach made us hard to beat. Buonanotte is an attacking, hard-working player. These players that are the future of the club are being hounded out. Without them, we fail to break stubborn teams down and offer a real challenge to the opposition. I am sad to see these players go.

    Charlie: Although we may have lost a few so called 'flair players', I think we've probably kept our most creative and exciting. Kaoru Mitoma and Yankuba Minteh are both some of the best players in the league at taking on a defender. If you can call a defensive midfielder a 'flair player', Carlos Baleba has to be one of the most fun to watch on his day, Also, I think the fact that we only took one point from our first two games, playing a defensive player in the number-10 position over Brajan Gruda against Manchester City was probably the right call.

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  9. Baleba's form questioned

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    Former Brighton striker Warren Aspinall says Carlos Baleba needs to improve his consistency after an indifferent start to the season.

    The Cameroon midfielder was heavily linked with a move to Manchester United in the summer and has not hit the same heights as he did last season, with Aspinall suggesting his warm-ups are not intense enough.

    "Hopefully the manager, along with Baleba, is putting it down to the Manchester United talks," Aspinall told BBC Radio Sussex's Albion Unlimited.

    "I saw him warming up against Manchester City - it was like running around the park with his mates. Once you get to the ground, concentration levels have to be much better.

    "He's one of the players who has let himself down. He has one great game, one good game and two bad ones. He needs to turn the bad games into good games.

    "You can't switch it on like a tap - it's not that easy in the Premier League. High-intensity football is about closing down, winning loose balls and breaking forward.

    "I have seen none of that this season."

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  15. 🎧 We need to talk about Chelsea

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    Head coach Fabian Hurzeler highlights his substitutes' energy against Manchester City, BBC football writer Nizaar Kinsella discusses Chelsea's continual pursuit of Albion assets, plus there's a preview of the Seagulls' trip to Bournemouth.

    Join Warren Aspinall and Guy Butter for the latest instalment of Albion Unlimited.

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    Listen to every Brighton game live on BBC Radio Sussex, with all the build-up and full commentary with Johnny Cantor and Warren Aspinall, and there is a full preview of all Seagulls' matches on Fridays at 18:00 in The Weekend Warm-up

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  18. Have Brighton lost all their unpredictable players?

    Scott McCarthy
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    What links most of the first-team players who left Brighton this summer? The majority of them were unpredictable mavericks.

    Julio Enciso and his love of going for goal from 30 yards, running off celebrating in expectation of a wonder strike only for the ball to fly 30 yards wide.

    The last act of Pervis Estupinan in an Albion shirt was to shoot when Brighton were holding onto a one-goal advantage in a must-win match against Liverpool with 30 seconds left to play.

    Said shot went out for a throw, gifting the champions possession and causing Fabian Hurzler to throw his arms in the air while screaming in the technical area. No lip reader was needed to see the type of language that would make Gordon Ramsey blush.

    Facundo Buonanotte is gone. Valentin Barco is gone. Igor Julio is gone.

    Hurzeler is a pragmatic, sensible German whose football can at times feel robotic. It would appear he is moulding this squad into his image with the jettisoning of players with a tendency to go rogue.

    Even Hurzeler's fellow German, Brajan Gruda is not exempt. Gruda began the season on the bench, leading to rumours he wanted to join Stuttgart on loan.

    His first start then saw him score one and set up three against Oxford in the Carabao Cup. Yet when Hurzeler opted to drop Matt O'Riley, it was the more reliable Diego Gomez who started as number 10 when Manchester City came to Amex Stadium.

    To win games, you need mavericks and unpredictability, as Gruda proved when coming off the bench and scoring the 94th minute winner against City. Making it three goals and three assists in 111 minutes this season.

    There is a balance to be struck. Whether Hurzeler finds it over the next eight months - and has greater trust in his flair players - could be the difference between qualifying for Europe or not.

    Find more from Scott McCarthy at We Are Brighton

    Have Brighton lost too many flair players this summer?

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