{"id":597858,"date":"2021-08-02T03:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=597858"},"modified":"2021-08-02T06:20:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T10:20:43","slug":"adam-webster-new-contract-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/02\/adam-webster-new-contract-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Webster Signs New Five-Year Deal at Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/19\/brighton-nat-phillips\/\" target=\"_self\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a> defender Adam Webster has signed a new five-year deal at the club.<\/p>\n<p>This new contract replaces the existing four-year deal that Webster signed when he joined the Seagulls from Bristol City in 2019.<\/p>\n<h2>Adam Webster Signs New Deal at Brighton<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Albion are delighted to confirm <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamWebster31?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AdamWebster31<\/a> has signed a new five-year contract! \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/firsttouchgames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FirstTouchGames<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brighton &amp; Hove Albion (@OfficialBHAFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialBHAFC\/status\/1422119995811696644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>A Key Defender<\/h3>\n<p>Webster has been a key part of the Brighton side since his arrival two summers ago. His influence is going to be needed more than ever now following the departure of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/28\/ben-white-arsenal-move\/\" target=\"_self\">Ben White to Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old has made 60 Premier League appearances across his two seasons with the club, scoring four goals in that time.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/sport\/19457509.brighton-look-within-replace-ben-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no plans of rushing to bring in a replacement<\/a> for White at this stage, despite the \u00a350 million sum they received for him.<\/p>\n<p>It means that Webster and Lewis Dunk will have added responsibility next season. Brighton manager Graham Potter regularly used a back three of White, Webster and Dunk, so it will be interesting to see the direction he goes in for the 2021\/22 season.<\/p>\n<p>Webster&#8217;s preferred position is on the left of a back three, so the departure of White may see increased involvement for Joel Veltman or the bedding in of a younger player.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>England Aspirations<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>After two seasons of solid involvement at Brighton, Webster will feel that the next stage of his natural progression will be to ask the question of an England call-up to Gareth Southgate.<\/p>\n<p>That will especially be the case having seen the rapid rise of White, who only had his first full season at Brighton in 2020\/21, which earned him a late call-up to England&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/05\/25\/england-euro-2020\/\" target=\"_self\">Euro 2020 squad<\/a> and thus the big-money move to Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Athletic, Webster expressed those desires, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi5_p2KjpLyAhUbhf0HHaKJAhoQ0PADegQIBxAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheathletic.com%2Fnews%2Fadam-webster-signs-new-five-year-brighton-contract%2FrgzaKUMrPIVe&amp;usg=AOvVaw0PYgUthuL9AzDCV-RQxNfT\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a>: \u201cI knew that just before I got injured, I was playing really well and we started to pick up more points to move away from the drop zone,\u201d Webster says in the feature interview, which you can read below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how close I was or how close I would have been if I\u2019d stayed fit but that\u2019s the dream, to play for England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played better last season compared to my first season and I want to do that again, that gives me the best chance of trying to break into the England squad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"eGGdVRTTTxhiajJKA6vnbg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1182064916\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'eGGdVRTTTxhiajJKA6vnbg',sig:'AV6ib1ylTizGMtrUnXSSU2Q6V5LysaZLAgRku7wjmu0=',w:'594px',h:'390px',items:'1182064916',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton &amp; Hove Albion defender Adam Webster has signed a new five-year deal at the club. This new contract replaces the existing four-year deal that Webster signed when he joined the Seagulls from Bristol City in 2019. Adam Webster Signs New Deal at Brighton Albion are delighted to confirm @AdamWebster31 has signed a new five-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":597859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1265,3],"tags":[3906,3927],"class_list":["post-597858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-premier-league","tag-adam-webster","tag-ben-white"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}