Brighton boss Hurzeler praises fast-improving Baleba

Hurzeler praised him today, stating, "He is a great player who is developing rapidly, showing significant improvement and adapting quickly to our ideas. He grasps concepts swiftly and has immense potential, as I have always believed."

"When we go really into detail, there's so many things where you can improve and our job is to help him, to give him this environment where he can improve.

"I have great staff. I have great experts who help him every day, my assistant coaches, my analysts that work with him individually, Andrew Crofts, also Max Lesser, my analyst, work with him almost every day, talk to him every day, and that's very important for young players, that they always get feedback and fast feedback after their performance.

"It's very important to find a balance when giving a player positive feedback, but also saying to him, ‘you have to improve this and that’. I think that's very important to not stagnate in your development, you have to always try to improve."