Brighton don't normally get it wrong with young players. After all, the quintet of Moises Caicedo, Marc Cucurella, Joao Pedro, Ben White and Alexis Mac Allister have brought in £300m in transfer fees in the last four years.

But the Seagulls had Viktor Gyokeres on their books and sold him for just £1m to Coventry in 2021. He has since become a £20m player at Sporting CP - then a £63.5m marquee signing for Arsenal. And now he's the Gerd Muller Trophy holder after scoring more goals than any player in 2025.

"We knew there was a top talent there - as that has subsequently been proved," Brighton chief executive Paul Barber tells Sky Sports about the forward. So why is Gyokeres not among a long list of Seagull success stories?

The Sweden forward seems like a classic Brighton signing - plucked from obscurity and with huge potential. But he left them with a mere eight first-team appearances to his name, none of them in the Premier League, and just one goal.

Image: Gyokeres was on Brighton's books and featured eight times for their first-team

He was also part of a successful...