Brighton’s Maxim De Cuyper believes his teammates must “stay humble” about their Premier League title prospects.
Brighton currently lie second in the Premier League table with a five-point deficit to leaders, Arsenal, after the Seagulls defeated ten-men Brentford 2-0 on Sunday (8 November) through first-half goals from Diego Gomez and Pascal Gross.
Speaking to the club website before he joined Belgium for the last international window of 2026, De Cuyper acknowledged that there is chatter on social media of a title challenge but feels that he and his teammates just need to stay focused on their tasks and not dream of the title.
“I think it’s impossible to not see those kinds of things if you have social media yourself,” reflected the Belgian. “The only thing we say to each other is that everyone has to stay humble and do his job 100%.
“It’s going pretty well, we’ve made a very good start. Like we said some weeks ago, it’s about us. We have to do the basics right and everything is possible then.
“It obviously makes it easier when you win games, to do this effort over and over again. You know what you’re doing is right and you just keep on doing those things that have got you the results.
“But we said it already to each other, if things are not going our way, we still have to keep on doing it. In the season you have difficult moments so we will definitely meet them and then we have to show how strong we are as a team.”
Several pundits like Paul Scholes has praised Brighton for their quality and Fabian Hurzeler’s coaching, with Scholes having had the opportunity to watch their training at Salford City in between their Carabao Cup and Premier League matches at Manchester City in the space of three days.
“I would say it’s just there’s a positive vibe with training,” commented De Cuyper on the mood and Hurzeler’s coaching quality. “Everyone is just doing the effort that is needed on training to be prepared for big games like last week City away and we try to do just our best at training so that’s it.”
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